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01-06-2020 Harvesting seeds enables farmers to avoid purchasing them from others each year. Collecting and saving seeds from tomatoes and members of the cabbage family, both of which favour temperate and colder climates, are explained. This booklet has been adapted from a Shell Book, "Ideias para guardar...
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01-06-2020 This is the first in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at seedbeds, flowering and fruiting, preparing seeds, planting the seedbed, preparing the rice paddy, planting the rice, weeding and harvesting. Adapted from "Ini Sa Ukit Ta Egbael Basakan" 1993, SIL...
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01-06-2020 This is the second in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with poor soil and covers zinc deficiency, using zinc sulphate and nitrogen fertiliser. It advises on varieties of rice to give the best harvest, how to put fertiliser in the soil and how...
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01-06-2020 This is the fourth in a series of four books on planting and maintaining a rice paddy. It looks at problems with diseases and covers blast, sheath blight, brown spot, narrow brown leaf spot, false smut, sheath rot, bacterial blight, bacterial leaf streak and viruses. Adapted from "Ini Sa Ukit Ta...
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A book about pig farming, taking you from choosing a site to keep pigs, deciding which breed to buy, feeding and caring for them and finally butchering them to obtain delicious meat. Additional sources of online help are listed and an easy recipe for cooking pork is included. Adapted from a...
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10-07-2021 This book shows how people with physical or mental disabilities can make a valuable contribution to the daily and seasonal work on a farm. Written and illustrated for MissionAssist This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by MissionAssist Copyright 2021 MissionAssist
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This book gives an overview of the Shell Books which have been written to help farmers and their families produce, process and store their precious food crops beyond harvest. Adapted from various "Practical Action" publications with kind permission. This edition published in the United Kingdom in...
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21-05-2022 This book describes the cultivation and use of the false banana, ensete ventricosum, in Ethiopia and suggests that it could become a useful staple food elsewhere in Africa. Compiled from information available in the public domain Illustrations by MissionAssist This edition published in the United...
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30-05-2020 Harvesting eru (an edible vine) in the wild can denude stocks.Advice is given to enable farmers to propagate cultivated eru from cuttings. This uses material from information published by Limbe Botanic Garden, Limbe, Cameroon, with kind permission.This edition was published in the United Kingdom...
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19-01-2021 This book shows how to make a donkey-powered plough and how to ensure the donkey can pull it comfortably and well. This book uses material from "Practical Action" with kind permission. This edition published in the United Kingdom in 2021 by MissionAssist.