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  1. Seed Storage of Horticultural Crops

    S. D. Doijode Amazon.com Description Maintain viability with these techniques for proper seed storage! Healthy, viable seeds are the foundation for sustainable crop production, while poorly kept seeds can result in low germination and crop loss. Seed Storage of Horticultural Crops suggests appropriate...
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  2. An Organic Seed Production Manual for the Mid-Atlantic and Southern US

    Jeffrey H. McCormack This is a collection of separate papers: Seed Processing & Storage, Isolation Distance for Seed Crops, Bean Seed Production, Brassica Seed Production, Cucumber Seed Production, Pepper Seed Production, and Tomato Seed Production. papers vary 17-35pages, illustrations
    631.521

  3. Cereal Seed Technology

    FAO Seed technology comprises the methods of improving the genetic and physical characteristics of seed. It involves such activities as variety development, evaluation, and release and seed production, processing, storage, and quality control. These are the main components of a healthy seed industry,...
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  4. Farmers' Seed Production

    Conny Almekinders & Niels Louwaars This handbook covers a whole range of issues relating to local seed supply systems, including participatory plant breeding, and both technical and practical information on seed production and variety maintenance. It suggests new approaches and methods to support on-farm seed production by...
    631.521

  5. Environmentally Sound Technologies for Women in Agriculture

    Intl Institute of Rural Reconstruction Women are critical to the well-being of farm households. Aside from raising children, women are expected to prepare all meals, maintain the homestead, and assist in crop and animal production, all the while tending to the general health of their families. Perhaps, ironically, it is because women...
    630.715

  6. Small-Scale Seed Production, Agrodok 37

    Harry van den Burg 2 Copies Seed production and the maintenance of crop cultivars by small farmers is a subject that has attracted increasing attention over the past decade. The increasing dominance of large multinationals in the seed trade, the controversy over genetic engineering, and the recognition of farmersí...
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  7. Organic Seed Production and Saving: The Wisdom of Plant Heritage

    Brian A. Connolly Part of the NOFAguides. Includes information on: Strengths and limitations of hybrid varieties Before you grow the seed (selecting varieties, saving seed and improving crops, intellectual property rights) Growing seed (pollination biology, harvesting, cleaning, storage, germination testing)...
    631.521

  8. Compendium of Soybean Diseases

    J.B. Sinclair, M.C. Shurtleff (ed) (Amazon.com Description from1999 4th edition) 2 copies Compendium of Soybean Diseases, 4th Edition combines the finest qualities of best-selling previous editions with updated and new sections, making it a thorough, authoritative and practical reference. Revisions to the 4th Edition include five...
    633.349

  9. Tropical Fruits

    Henry Y. Nakasone et al A wide variety of fruits is grown in the tropics, under a range of climatic conditions and soil types. Some have been widely used both within the tropics and also exported to temperate countries for many years, whereas others are currently grown almost exclusively for local or regional use....
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  10. The Last Hunger Season: a year in an African farm community on the brink of change

    Roger Thurow. 2 Copies At 4:00 am, Leonida Wanyama lit a lantern in her house made of sticks and mud. She was up long before the sun to begin her farm work, as usual. But this would be no ordinary day, this second Friday of the new year. This was the day Leonida and a group of smallholder farmers in western...
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