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Introduction of early maturing cassava varieties
This technology describes the introduction of early maturing purple cassava varieties in the Bolivian eco-region of the Beni river watershed. In this area, farmers are used to cultivate white cassava, which has a growing cycle of more than 90 days. Given the long growing period, traditional white cassava often cannot...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Fruit fly control for mango farmers
Growing mango is full of challenges and farmers should know about them to succeed in the mango production. The more farmers know, the better they will succeed. This guide and short film shows four farmers from the Eastern Region of Ghana sharing their experiences with fruit fly control in mango...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Weed management in conservation agriculture
This technology describes different methods on how to better prepare the area for planting crops and manage weeds so that they cannot interfere with crop development. In conservation agriculture systems, this management should facilitate the penetration of direct seeding equipment into the soil and into a favourable environment for seed...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Participatory varietal selection: improved chickpea yield
Rice fallows offer a huge potential niche for legume cultivation in South Asia. For example, chickpea yields in the High Barind Tract of Bangladesh normally remain below 1 tonne per ha due mainly to crop establishment problems and terminal drought and heat stress. At this level, the crop remains a...
Bangladesh
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Management of Black Sigatoka (Mycosphaerella fijiensis Morelet) in banana plantations
Na República Dominicana a ocorrência de chuvas de elevada intensidade e de inundações é frequente no período dos furacões, causando estragos significativos nos sistemas de produção de banana. De entre estes, pode destacar-se o aumento da incidência de doenças como a Sigatoka negra. Esta doença causa a necrose e morte...
Dominican Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Indoor oyster mushroom cultivation for livelihood diversification and increased resilience
This practice describes indoor mushroom (Pleurotus spp.) cultivation as a means to diversify livelihoods and strengthen the resilience of farmers in Uganda. Indoor mushroom cultivation was promoted by the Global Climate Change Alliance (GCCA) project on Agriculture Adaptation to Climate Change in the central cattle corridor of Uganda. Mushrooms can be...
Uganda
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Contract farming handbook
This guide was published by the 'Competitive African Cotton Initiative' (COMPACI) in collaboration with other partners as such as Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), AISP II. It is a powerful tool for linking farmers to buyers, in an increasingly concentrated agri-food sector, and buyers to supply sources in ever-more...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Animal traction and single-axle tractor drawn planters in conservation agriculture
This practice describes how small-scale farms can use oxen-drawn for soil ripping in Kenya. This practice improves water storage capacity and the productivity of the land. Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity, increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Transplanting sorghum and pearl millet in semi-arid regions
The main challenges for farmers in semi-arid and arid areas of the tropics and subtropics are poor food security, yield instability and risk of crop failure. These are associated with the biggest physical constraint to crop production in these areas:erratic and unreliable rainfall resulting in shortages of water. Under these...
Ghana
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Refuge mounds, deworming, preventive vitaminization and mineralization
This technology describes the introduction of livestock refuge mounds in the sub-Amazonian eco-region of Bolivia (Department of Beni). It is a good practice to increase the resilience of cattle raisers to recurrent floods as well as to ensure water availability in the canals during dry spells. Livestock refuge mounds are...
Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Production of tree seeds for agroforestry: seed sourcing
A seed source is a group of trees growing together from which one can collect seed for multiplication. This may be an identified number of trees in a landscape-farmland/natural forest or a group of trees from which you obtain seeds. A good seed source for trees should provide fast-growing healthy,...
Kenya
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Crop rotation in conservation agriculture
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity, increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment. The three fundamental principles of CA are:
direct planting of crop seeds;
permanent soil cover; and
crop diversity.
This practice encourages crop rotation for its...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Les préalables à la lutte étagée ciblée (LEC)
Conçue au Benin par le projet Programme de Promotion de l’Agriculture (ProAgri), dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre du programme COMPACI chargé de la promotion du secteur du coton en Afrique, la fichier présent illustre les différentes étapes préalables à la lutte étagée ciblée (LEC). La technologie expose...
Benin
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Cover crop species, with a special focus on legumes
Conservation Agriculture (CA) is an approach to managing agro-ecosystems for improved and sustained productivity, increased profits and food security while preserving and enhancing the resource base and the environment.Keeping the soil covered is a fundamental principle of CA. Crop residues are left on the soil surface, but cover crops may...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Seed priming to improve stand establishment and yield in sorghum
Crop establishment is often poor in the semi-arid tropics. However, good crop stand establishment is essential for the efficient use of water and light, and a uniform stand is a pre-requisite for cropping success. Seeds that germinate quickly produce viable seedlings that are not dependent on rapidly declining moisture in...
Pakistan - Zimbabwe
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Commercial scale community bamboo harvesting
Traditional vegetation based bamboo production of four villages of Meung districts in Lao PDR, are being shifted to industrial processing oriented bamboo production. This is being done with the technical and operational support from ForInfo, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland. The project allowed for improved management practices, participatory decision...
Lao People's Democratic Republic
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Aerobic rice
Aerobic rice is a production system in which rice is grown under non-flooded, non-puddled, and non-saturated soil conditions. Because aerobic rice needs less water at the field level than conventional lowland rice, the system is targeted at relatively water-short irrigated or rain-fed lowland environments. Irrigation can be applied through flash-flooding,...
Philippines
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Rice farming: saving water through Alternate Wetting Drying (AWD) method
Alternate wetting and drying (AWD) is a water-saving technology that lowland (paddy) rice farmers can apply to reduce their water use in irrigated fields. In AWD, irrigation water is applied to flood the field a certain number of days after the disappearance of ponded water. Hence, the field is alternately...
Indonesia
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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How to collect drone larvae from the bee hive
Drones are male honey bees. Unlike the female worker bee, drones do not have a stinger and do not participate in nectar and pollen gathering. A drone's primary role is to mate with an infertile queen. The value of drone larvae as a nutritional supplement has been proven in many...
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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Zero/minimum tillage in rice-wheat system
The objective of this practice is to facilitate timely planting of the wheat crop while minimizing soil degradation and conserving residual soil moisture and energy with minimum or zero tillage in wet and marshy land, where land preparation is not possible.
Nepal
2020 - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
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