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Controlling Common blight in organic bean
Common bacterial blight caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli is a very important disease of field bean in many regions of the world and can lead to high losses of production (25 to 60%). The bacterium is primarily transmitted through infected seed. Xanthomonas can survive over 15 years in seed...
Romania
2020 - Bresov Project
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Improved trash lines
Trash lines of organic material, composed of weeds and crops, laid in bands across the slope of annual crop fields, constitute a traditional land husbandry practice in south-west Uganda. These trash lines incorporate organic matter into the soil after decomposition and help to maintain soil fertility and control runoff. The...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: manual and motorised cleaning of grains and pulses
This practice describes methods to clean and separate the trash of threshing, providing features of cleaning grains and pulses, by manual and motorised ways. The advantages and disadvantages of this practice are additionally highlighted.
Description
Traditional threshing methods often leave a lot of rubbish mixed with the grains and pulses.
Separating the rubbish...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Simple techniques for dried meat production: methods of suspending meat
The traditional way of suspending meat for drying by hanging strips over tree branches, wire or rope is not recommended; This is because meat pieces remain in contact with these supporting devices or may touch each other, and thus not dry properly in these contact areas. The following description is...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Baculovirus Corpoica® para proteger la papa de la polilla guatemalteca en almacenamiento
Bioproducto desarrollado por AGROSAVIA para el control de la polilla guatemalteca de la papa (Tecia solanivora), en almacenamiento de papa para semilla y papa de consumo; es inocuo para la salud humana y el medio ambiente. Además, reemplaza el uso de insecticidas y no afecta la brotación del tubérculo.
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Colombia
2020 - Corporación Colombiana de Investigación Agropecuaria (AGROSAVIA)
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La technique FAO-Thiaroye de transformation du poisson ou le FTT-Thiaroye: comment le construire et assembler ses éléments
Une réponse au besoin d’améliorer les opérations de séchage et de fumage de poisson à petite échelle, le FTT‑Thiaroye (la technique de traitement FAO‑Thiaroye) fait en sorte que les opérations de traitement de fumage et de séchage du poisson Thiaroye respectent les exigences en matière de sécurité des denrées alimentaires...
Senegal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: draught animal powered groundnut lifter
This practice explains the basic technical features of the groundnut lifter used with animal power. It also describes advantages and disadvantages of groundnut lifter methods providing features of groundnut lifter manually.
Description
1. Features of groundnut lifter
The groundnut lifter is an extended ploughshare with steel rods replacing the mouldboard part of the...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Development of tools for draught animals
Participatory rural appraisals identified a number of major limiting factors in farming systems in Bolivia. These included the husbandry of draught animals, their health, nutrition, feeding, and housing, as well as the improved use of draught animals. The project developed, tested and disseminated a range of appropriate tillage and transport...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Technique of cutting meat pieces for drying
Meat drying is a complex process with many important steps. It involves animal slaughtering, carcass trimming, raw material selection, meat cutting, pieces pre-treatment, meat drying and proper arrangement of drying facilities. In addition, weather conditions must also be considered to avoid quality problems or production losses. The following technology describes...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: pack animals and animal drawn carts
Human porterage (either on the head, shoulders or back) is common in many rural areas, particularly where access roads are in a poor condition. This practice describes how to use animals such as horses and oxen for transportation.
Description
1. Features of using pack animals
Donkeys are used for transporting produce, firewood and...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Repurposing Farm Machinery
Many farmers in Europe and North America are burdened with debts due to the heavy investments they have made over the years to buy farm machinery. A new tractor easily costs 100,000 Euro or more. New agricultural policies often force farmers to change as well.
Netherlands (Kingdom of the)
2020 - AgroInsight
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: improved storage facilities
The following provides features of improved stores facilities for grains. It also details the advantages and disadvantages of this practice? which include labour saving, livelihood resilience strengthening, livelihood diversification, skills, equipment, cost, and risk.
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Management of the aquaponic systems
Aquaponics is the integration of recirculating aquaculture and hydroponics in one production system. Although the production of fish and vegetables is the most visible output of aquaponic units, it is essential to understand that aquaponics is the management of a complete ecosystem that includes three major groups of organisms: fish,...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: draught animal powered and motorised crop processing
The following technology provides some examples of the utilisation of animal power as an energy source for post-harvest operations. It details features of draught animal-driven equipment, motorized grain milling (plate, roller and hammer mills), motorized oil extraction (screw-auger press, cage press, and centrifugal cracker for palm oil), motorized cassava processing,...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Tsetse Muse: helping planners to design cost-effective tsetse control strategies
Tsetse flies live in 36 countries and a total area of between 9 and 10 million square kilometres in Africa. Throughout this area the disease transmitted by the tsetse fly, Trypanosomiasis (or Trypanosomosis), has a significant effect on large numbers of livestock. About 50 million cattle and tens of millions of...
Botswana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Simple techniques for production of dried meat
Drying meat under natural temperatures, humidity and circulation of the air, including the direct influence of sun rays, is the oldest method of meat preservation. It consists of gradual dehydration of pieces of meat cut to a specific uniform shape that permits the equal and simultaneous drying of whole batches...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Comment récolter la cire d'abeille
La cire d’abeille est une marchandise de valeur qui peut être utilisée pour faire toute sorte de produits comme par exemple des bougies, de la crème de corps, du cirage, etc. Cette technologie présente, méthodiquement, trois méthodes différentes pour récolter la cire d’abeille. La première méthode décrite utilise des matériaux...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Labour-saving technologies and practices: draught animal power and implements
The following provides some basic technical explanations for the correct utilisation of animal power including harnessing and implements. The advantages and disadvantages of this practice are also explained, which include labour saving, livelihood diversification, livelihood resilience strengthening, equipment, costs, skills, and risks.
Description
Cattle, particularly oxen are by far the most common...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Adaptive co-management: improved management of fisheries resources
In many developing countries, centralised management of small-scale fisheries has not been able to ensure the sustainable management of fisheries resources on which so many depend. Often this is because information to support management decision-making is either not available or that it being provided in a top-down manner that may...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Camarones: método de cultivo
La cría de camarones y langostinos en ambientes naturales o seminaturales tiene tres fases principales:
Engorde desde postlarva a tamaño comercial.
Desove y cría desde huevo a postlarva, maduración y reproducción.
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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