High-Quality Cassava Flour (HQCF) is an attractive alternative to cassava starch that can form the starting point for a cassava-based industry. HQCF production is less capital intensive and requires lower levels of inputs for success, compared to cassava starch. HQCF can be used as an alternative to starch and other...

Harvesting honey from colonies of giant honey bees, Apis breviligula and Apis dorsata can be a profitable village enterprise. Smoke is used to drive away the bees from their nest. The honeycomb is cut and separated from the pollen and brood. The comb is processed in a honey house to...

Stock assessment tools and fishery management guidelines were synthesised into a framework guide. The guide assists fisheries managers in using Fisheries Management Science Programme (FMSP) stock assessment tools. It describes a process for writing and implementing a fishery management plan and shows how stock assessment tools can support fishery managers...

While the coconut shell technology is the easiest and cheapest way to propagate stingless bees, it may not be practical for inter-island transport for pollination of large plantation crops like mango. Thus, a suitable wooden hive was designed for this purpose. This practice describes how to build the wooden hive...

Having well nourished and healthy livestock represents a challenge for farmers in Uganda. Diary cattle in Uganda, in most cases, produce less milk than expected. This is mainly caused by improper feeding, which provides feed in inadequate quantities and of low quantity. It is therefore imperative that feed quantity and...

Drought resistance in rice is physiologically and genetically complex. There are a number of traits which are thought to contribute to drought resistance mechanisms. Drought-related traits are influenced by several or many genetic loci. Molecular linkage maps allow identification of Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs). Corresponding molecular markers can be used...

Inga alley-cropping is a system of deep mulching using pruned green leaves from the trees which are contour-planted in hedgerows. Within about 24 months, the Inga trees will have recaptured the site from invasive grasses and will be ready for their first pruning. Following cropping, the trees are left to...

Biosecurity measures in beekeeping are all the operational activities implemented by beekeepers to reduce the risk of introduction and spread of specific honeybee disease agents. Biosecurity measures can differ between different regions due to local factors such as climatic conditions, beekeeping equipment used, or bee races, and the prevalence, virulence...

This technology describes the performance of flood-tolerant rice varieties in flood-prone areas of Lao PDR, including a comparison with local rice varieties monitored within the same farms. Details on local and improved varieties are provided as well as a step by step description on its usage. Additionally, major costs and...

El Cantón de Juye, un área localizada en una zona de depresión, recibe 500 mm en promedio de precipitación anual. Sin embargo, durante las últimas décadas, la imprevisibilidad del cambio climático ha expuesta esta región a graves sequías, sobre todo en primavera e invierno. Por otro lado, China es el...

Good beekeeping practices (GBPs) are a set of integrative activities that beekeepers apply to obtain optimal health for humans, honeybees and the environment. They are general measures valid for beekeeping activities and are globally accepted. They are a tool for beekeepers to successfully address the challenges face in day-to-day apiary...

Rice is highly nutritious, however a lot of its quality is lost during processing. This results in poor quality rice on the market. Therefore, consumers turn to imported rice. In this video you will learn about parboiling, a way to improve rice quality by treating paddy with warm water and...

High potential rice production systems have diverse biophysical and socio-economic environments, but there is a lack of rice varieties matching this diversity. A number of advanced breeding lines have recently been developed to match these production systems. Therefore, suitable varieties for diverse rice-producing environments were developed in high potential production...

Brief about the key components of grazing management, benefits of proper grazing and Effective grazing management.

In this video we will learn how to recognise Newcastle disease, and the signs, causes, prevention, control and management of this devastating disease.

Stonebrood, or aspergillosis, is caused by different species of fungi belonging to the Aspergillus genus. The disease is identified by hard larvae covered with powdery fungal spores. It is found worldwide but, unless the colony is seriously weakened by other stresses, it is usually asymptomatic (it has no visible symptoms). Following...

Early maturing rice can be harvested before local rice varieties, thereby reducing the vulnerability of farmers to extreme events and enhancing the resilience of livelihoods. This technology describes the cost-benefit analysis of growing early maturing rice in Lao PDR and provides information on how to grow this rice variety in...

Coconut shells are used to make honey harvesting easy and to decrease the mortality rate of young bees or the brood. The usual way of harvesting honey from wild colonies destroys a large portion of the nest. The bees spend long time to mend the damaged nest. This problem is...

African Rice Center: “The quality is very important for us to push back the dumping from outside, if we don’t do it; whether its from Africa, whether it’s from my mother’s kitchen, people are not going to buy it, so we have to become competitive, we have to develop competitive...

Chicken diseases can cause significant loss for farmers. Due to the frequency in which diseases affect chickens at nearly every change of season, farmers get discouraged to raise chickens. The most common diseases often infecting chickens in rural areas are Newcastle disease and fowl cholera. This practice includes instructions on...