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20/01/2007 Ce dépliant de 8 pages, facile à lire et particulièrement adapté à la consultation sur le terrain, traite de la lutte contre le Striga et les foreurs de tige du maïs. Il propose des informations générales sur le sujet traité, une description des procédés, divers conseils, des tableaux et des...
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20/04/2018 The introduction of Fall Armyworm (FAW) (Spodoptera frugiperda) to Africa in 2016 has raised concerns of possible widespread damage of maize and other crops. Stalk borers are a common pest of maize throughout Africa, causing modest damage virtually every year. Armyworms, on the other hand, can...
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26/03/2015 Through research in South Africa, ECHO has been developing best-practicesfor growing Moringa and other crops. This reasearch, through the Howard G. Buffet Foundation, demonstrates growing Moringaon a large scale for powder production including soil fertility management and pruning. This...
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20/04/2014 EDN 122 highlighted multi-purpose cowpea varieties with spreading vines that cover the soil. Below is an ECHO research update from South Africa relating our experience so far with a spreading cowpea variety intercropped with maize grown in a Foundations for Farming (FFF) system. “Living carpet”...
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14/04/2020 Dans chaque ferme, j'ai identifié l'abondance et la diversité des oiseaux à l'aide de comptages ponctuels pour une durée totale de 40 minutes de comptage par site d’étude. Chaque agriculteur dont le champ a été enquêté a participé à une interview sur la production agricole et a décrit ses propres...
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CIMMYT works throughout the developing world to improve livelihoods and foster more productive, sustainable maize and wheat farming systems. Our portfolio squarely targets critical challenges, including food insecurity and malnutrition, climate change and environmental degradation. Through...
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Ressource principale 01/01/1987 Maize covers in detail the characteristics and requirements of the crop and how to grow it in a variety of African zones and farming systmes, with relevance to the Caribbean and other tropical areas.
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20/01/2007 One should only be critical of the decisions which have been made voluntarily by millions of smallholder farmers when one has the fullest understanding of all the reasons which led to their making a change in their cropping, and particularly their staple food.
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01/10/2002 A habitat management system to control stemborers and striga has been developed by the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (ICIPE), along with Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), and IACR-Rothamsted of the UK. The system is called a...
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Le maïs est cultivé depuis de nombreux siècles dans plusieurs régions d’Amérique centrale, du Nord et du Sud. L’utilisation du maïs s’est étendue à de nombreuses régions tempérées, subtropicales et tropicales de la planète. À l’échelle mondiale, la production de maïs dépasse aujourd’hui celles du...
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