Resources Tagged: Green Manure Cover Crops

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  1. FM 2003 LEISA Magazine Vol 19 #4

    2003-12-20 Little bugs, big problems Nitrogen fixation on a national scale From soil erosion to soil quality Healing the earth - an Ethiopian story Understanding traditional terracin Adoption of green manure and cover crops Kick-starting legumes Bioremediation: decontaminating polluted soils Using weed to...
    Nitrogen Fixation Green Manure Cover... Legumes Fodder trees Green Manures Weed Control Shelter

  2. FAO - Cross-Slope Barriers

    Cross-slope barriers are measures on sloping lands in the form of earth or soil bunds, stone lines, and / or vegetative strips for reducing runoff velocity and soil loss, thereby contributing to soil, water and nutrient conservation. This is achieved by reducing steepness and / or length of...
    Fanya juu Terracing FAO Sustainable Land M... Vegetation Stone Bunds Earth Bunds Soil Fertility Green Manure Cover... Green Manures Cover Crops

  3. Green Manure Cover Crops

    Most farmers know very well that in a forest many plants grow all the time, but the soil never wears out. The soil in a forest also never gets so hard that someone has to plow it. Even more amazing, the plants in a forest do not suffer from droughts. In other words, forest soils stay productive,...
    Green Manure Cover... Green Manure Crops Jackbean

  4. Crotalaria juncea, a promising green manure crop for the tropics

    This article is from ECHO Asia Note #3 Crotalaria juncea, or sunn hemp, is a member of the pea family (Fabaceae) grown in many countries as a green manure or forage crop. Originating in South Asia, but with a common cultivar developed in Hawaii, it is a fastgrowing, drought-tolerant and...
    Nitrogen Fixation Green Manures and ... Green Manure Cover... Green Manures Cover Crops Legume Asia

  5. Green Manure Crops

    Key Resource
    1985-01-01 Green manure crops are crops that are [often times in North America] grown to be turned under to increase soil fertility. Leguminous green manure crops ( i.e., those which can make nitrogen fertilizers from atmospheric nitrogen) can offer small-scale Third World farmers a tremendous number of...
    Green Manures and ... Green Manure Cover... Green Manures Cover Crops Mucuna Jackbean Soil Fertility Conservation Agric... Mulch

  6. The Recent Introduction of Niger Seed (Guizotia abyssinica) Production in Northern Thailand

    2010-07-01 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #6 The arrival of a new crop No one seems to know whymembers of the Lisuhilltribe in northernThailand refer to a certain field crop with brilliantyellow flowers as Japanesesesame. The seeds of thiscrop yield quality cooking oil, but the plant looksnothing like...
    allelopathic Japanese Sesame Sesamum indicum Hibiscus sabdariffa Papaver somniferum Seed Oil Oil Press Oilseed Cooking Oil Green Manure Cover... Niger Asia

  7. Green Manure Publication

    1990-01-01 This report summarizes aspects of several experiments at the Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuaria do Cerrado at Planaltina, Brazil where green manure legumes were evaluated as sources of nitrogen for succeeding nonlegume crops. 50 pages, illustrations
    Green Manure Cover... Green Manures

  8. Restoring the Soil - Second edition

    Key Resource
    2019-05-21 Now available through Amazon as well as the ECHO Bookstore Smallholder farmers around the world face some of the harshest growing conditions globally, yet they produce the majority of the world’s food. Soils in these areas often lack nutrient and water holding capacities, due to erosion or poor...
    Soil Fertility Soil Management Developing countries Food Security Green Manure Cover...

  9. Calliandra

    Calliandra is a vigorous, nitrogen-fixing, bushy tree that can be fast-growing on poor soils. The tree responds well to coppicing, is a good fuelwood source and the leaves provide excellent fodder. Calliandra is used to enrich soil and provide stability on steep slopes.
    Agroforestry Tree ... Calliandra Caliendra Agroforestry Trees Green Manure Cover... Forage

  10. The Role of Green Manure Cover Crops

    Session:The major factor in the increase in droughts across Africa has been caused mostly by the gradual death of fallowing, and the resulting decrease in rainwater infiltration from about 60% down to 20% in most areas. GM/CCs are the only feasible way to save Africa from the rapidly increasing...
    Green Manure Cover... Conservation Agric... East Africa