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World cassava production and yield trends 1960-1968 = Tendencias de la producción y rendimiento de la yuca
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/54331
Publication year
1972
Authors
Díaz Duque, R.O.
Full Citation
Díaz Duque, Rafael Orlando. 1972. World cassava production and yield trends 1960-1968 = Tendencias de la producción y rendimiento de la yuca…
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Información de los conocimientos actuales que existen sobre sistemas de alimentación de aves y cerdos en las zonas tropicales de América Latina
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69895
Abstract
This report includes data on poultry and swine populations and production for L.A. countries. Possibilities of increasing production, especially swine, is more feasible through the improvement of production efficiency than increasing the animal population. Feed availability is…
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Effects of organic and inorganic fertilization on soil bacterial and fungal microbial diversity in the Kabete long-term trial, Kenya
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43394
Publication year
2011
Authors
Kamaa, M
Mburu, H
Blanchart, E
Chibole, L
Chotte, Jean-Luc
Kibunja, C.N.
Lesueur, Didier
DOI…
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Improved seedling emergence and growth of maize and beans by trichoderma harziunum
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43096
Abstract
An indigenous strain of Trichoderma spp. was tested for its ability to promote seed germination and growth of maize and bean seedlings grown in the field at Embu District, Kenya. The trial aws carried out for three seasons with the following treatments; two types of fertilizers, cow manure, and Trichoderma seed coat. Seedlings were…
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Management of acid soils in the Llanos of Colombia
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65536
Publication year
2005
Authors
Amézquita Collazos, Edgar
Rao, Idupulapati M.
Bernal Riobo, Jaime Humberto
Barrios, E.
Rondón, Marco Antonio
Ayarza, Miguel Angel
Full Citation
Amézquita Collazos, Edgar; Rao, Idupulapati Madhusudana; Bernal Riobo, Jaime…
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Using the crop simulation model APSIM to generate functional relationships for analysis of resource use in African smallholder systems: aggregating field-scale knowledge for farm-scale models
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/65584
Publication year
2007
Authors
Chikowo, Regis
Corbeels, Marc
Tittonell, Pablo A.
Vanlauwe, Bernard
Whitbread, Anthony M.
Giller, Kenneth E.
Full Citation…
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Biología y hábitos de Mahanarva andigena (Hemiptera: Cercopidae) en condiciones de casa de malla
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44248
Abstract
Mahanarva andigena fue detectada por primera vez en Colombia en 1999, en el Municipio de Tumaco (Nariño),
sur de la costa Pacífica, asociada con los hospederos Sorghum halepense y Saccharum officinarum. Con el propósito de
complementar los estudios tendientes al conocimiento biológico de otras especies de salivazo asociadas…
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Influence of temperature and soil moisture on some population growth parameters of Cyrtomenus bergi (Hemiptera: Cydnidae)
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43575
Abstract
Abundance of Cyrtomenus bergi Froeschner has been reported regularly under moist and damp conditions. The influence of temperature and soil moisture on development time and mortality of first, third, and fifth instars, longevity and fecundity of C. bergi adult females, as well as hatching time and…
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Farm input marketing in western Kenya : Challenges and opportunities
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/42852
Abstract
Widespread and increasing rural poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has been of great concern to development community. Low use of inputs by farmers, due to market constraints that reduce profitability of input use, is one of the factors responsible for the gap between potential and actual yields. Using questionnaire, this study interviewed 130 agro-input…
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Agricultores beneficiam da adopção de tecnologias de gestão integrada de pragas do feijão
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/70408
Publication year
2006
Authors
Minja, EM
Full Citation
Minja, Eliainery M. 2006. Agricultores beneficiam da adopção de tecnologias de gestão integrada de pragas do feijão. Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (…
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Diversity in the tropical multipurpose shrub legumes Cratylia argentea (Desv.) O. Kuntze and Flemingia macrophylla (Willd.) Merrill Thesis (Doktors der Agrarwissenschaften)
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/66229
Publication year
2006
Authors
Andersson, Meike S.
Full Citation
Andersson, Meike S. 2006. Diversity in the tropical multipurpose shrub legumes Cratylia argentea (…
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Calidad nutritiva y utilización de Cratylia argentea
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/80255
Abstract
This article summarizes the information obtained in several trials on the nutritive quality, intake, and acceptability of Cratylia argentea.In addition, results are presented of the use of this legume as a supplement for sheep fed low-quality forage and for dairy cows grazing during the dry and rainy seasons. The nutritive value of C. argentea, measured in terms of…
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Contending with complexity: The role of evaluation in implementing sustainable natural resource management
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/43303
Abstract
Three case studies show that natural resource management (NRM) research aimed at sustainably improving the well-being of African small-holder farmers is complex, and that monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is an essential tool in coping with this complexity, supported by an ‘innovation systems’ view of the…
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Líneas base, dosis diagnóstico y medición periódica de resistencia a insecticidas en poblaciones de adultos e inmaduros de Trialeurodes vaporariorum (homoptera: aleyrodidae) en el Valle del Cauca, Colombia
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/44352
Abstract
As a continuation to the work on insecticide resistance in whitefly populations in Colombia and Ecuador, line base data, LC,, and LC,, values, and diagnostic doses for imidacloprid, monocrotophos, carbofuran,…
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El método IPRA : Una propuesta metodológica para el proceso de investigación con agricultores
International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/69640
Publication year
1997
Authors
Mendoza, B.
Baltodano, Maria Eugenia
Full Citation
Mendoza, Bismark; Baltodano, María Eugenia. 1997. El método IPRA : Una propuesta metodológica para el proceso de…