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  1. TN #73 Lablab (Lablab purpureus) New Staple Crop for the Sudano Sahel

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    2013-01-20 About 98% of agricultural production in the Sudano Sahelian region of West and Central Africa is based on rainfed crops. With a mean annual rainfall of 300 to 800 mm/year, the number of staple crops is very limited. It includes two grain crops: pearl millet (Pennisetum glaucum) for sandy soils...
    Lablab Rainfed crops Pulses Intercropping Food Security FMNR Forage Crop Nitrogen Fixation

  2. Tropical legumes for sustained cropping on marginal soils

    Through generous support from the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, ECHO completed a five-year (2010-2015) research project in Limpopo Province of South Africa. The central question addressed was “How can smallscale farmers in sub-Saharan Africa continue to produce food with limited resources for...
    Legumes Tropical legumes Depleted Soils Sustainable GMCC Intercropping

  3. Intercropping acacia albida with maize zea mays and green gram (phaseolus aureus) at Mtwapa, Coast Province, Kenya

    1991-01-01 12 pages
    Intercropping Agriculture-Kenya

  4. Principles of Intercropping with Beans Study Guide

    The objective of this unit is to introduce the student to the importance of intercropping systems in world food production. Discussions of genetic, agronomic and socioeconomic factors involved in intercropping will be facilitate by the development and use of a common scientific language.
    Intercropping

  5. Intercropping in semi-arid areas: report of a symposium held at the Faculty of Agriculture, Forestry and Veterinary Science, University of Dar es Salaam, Morogoro, Tanzania, 10-12 May 1976

    This publication reports on research in different intercropping systems.
    Intercropping Arid regions agric...

  6. Applying push-pull principles in managing fall armyworm in Africa

    The ‘push-pull’ system is a novel approach in pest management, developed by understanding the complex mechanisms that govern the ecology of plants and insects, which uses carefullyselected repellent intercrops and attractive trap plants. Insect pests are repelled from the food crop and are...
    Push-pull Striga Intercropping Pest Management

  7. Legume Intercropping with Moringa and Maize

    2015-03-26 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...
    Intercropping Maize Legume Moringa

  8. ECHO Research Blog Update

    2016-01-07 Dr. Tim Motisrecently posted afollow up to hisJuly 2015poston ECHO's 2-4-2maize/cowpeatrial. This update presents some of the data that has been collected to date. When the legumes were sampled in July, the above-ground biomass of both weeds and legumes were sampled. Weeds made up less than 3% of...
    Intercropping

  9. Roland Bunch, Five Years in Africa

    2016-04-08 A report from Roland Bunch regarding his efforts to promote green manures and cover crops in Africa.
    Green Manures and ... Legume Intercropping Pigeonpea Lablab Mucuna Tephrosia Gliricidia

  10. Alley Farming in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics: proceedings of an international workshop held at Ibadan, Nigeria, 10-14 March 1986

    关键资源 1989-01-15 An urgent challenge facing agricultural scientists working on upland food-crop production in many parts of the humid and subhumid tropics is the need to find viable, sustainable, and environmentally sound alternatives to the ancient shifting cultivation and bush-fallow, slash-and-bum cultivation...
    Agroforestry Intercropping