Author: P. J. SkermanPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789252001638
Category : Forage plants
Languages : fr
Pages : 708
Book Description
Les legumineuses fourrageres tropicales
Author: P. J. SkermanPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789252001638
Category : Forage plants
Languages : fr
Pages : 708
Book Description
Stylosanthes as a Forage and Fallow Crop
Author: P. N. de LeeuwPublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9290532793
Category : Fallow land plants
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
The biology of Stylosanthes and its importance in West Africa and Latin America; The screening and evaluation of Stylosanthes germplasm; The dynamics, nutrient requirements, pests and diseases of Stylosanthes species; Stylosanthes-based pastures for livestock production; The integration of Stylosanthes into cropping systems; Seed production of Stylosanthes.
Biological Nitrogen Fixation and Sustainability of Tropical Agriculture
Author: African Association for Biological Nitrogen Fixation. ConferencePublisher: IITA
ISBN: 9780471935605
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Biological nitrogen fixation in tropical agrosystems: twenty years of biological nitrogen fixation research in Africa; Sustainable agriculture: definition and measurement; Biological nitrogen fixation systems in tropical ecosystems: an overview; A protocol for screening legumes as soil-improving crops; The sustenance of tropical agriculture with multipurpose azolla; Facteurs pedoclimatiques limitant la lixation biologique l'azole; Response of some tropical nitrogen-fixing woody legumes to drought and inoculation with mycorrhiza; Improvement to the Phaseolus/Rhizobium symbiosis, with particular reference to the Caribbean region; Effect of pest management systems on biological nitrogen fixation; Agronomic evaluation of a rock phosphate as a phosphorus source for Leucaena leucocephala grown on an utisol; Nodulation of soybean grown under field conditions and inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicum strains; Effect of fertilization and Rhizobium inoculation on the growth of Leucaena and Gliricidia on an alfisol in south-western Nigeria; Early growth and nodulation in Leucaena and Gliricidia and the effects or pruning on biomass productivity; Comparative stude on the growth and productivity of Sesbania and Leucaena in the Central Plateau region, Rwanda; Supernoculation and non-nodulation mutants of soybean; Genetically improved rhizobia and their use in agriculture; Sustainability of nitrogen-fixing cropping systems: Nodulation and nitrogen fixation and transfer in a cowpea/rice cropping system; The role of legumes in sustaiing soil productivity and controlling soil erosion; Fitting soil-improving legumes into inland valley rice-baes cropping systems in West Africa; Herbage yield and soil fertility restoration potential of some tropical forage legumes.
Technical Handbook on Symbiotic Nitrogen Fixation
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United NationsPublisher: Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN: 9789251031995
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
General information on the symbiotic nitrogen fixation. Isolation, identification and counting of rhizobia. Production of an inoculant and inoculation of legumes. Experiments.
Tropical Forage Legumes
Author: P. J. SkermanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The role of legumes in agriculture; Evaluation of natural resources for pasture production; Land clearing; Pasture establishment; Mineral nutrition of tropical pasture legumes; Nitrogen nutrition of tropical pastures; Rhizobium relationships of legumes; management of tropical pasture legumes; Weed control in tropical pastures; Irrigation of tropical pasture legumes; Production of forage legume seed; Selection and breeding of tropical pasture legumes; Chemical composition and nutritive value of tropical legumes; The pasture legumes; Leguminous browse.
The Complementarity of Feed Resources for Animal Production in Africa
Author: John E. S. StaresPublisher: ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
ISBN: 9789290531999
Category : Animal feeding
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Tropical Agriculturist
Author: Tropical Forage Legumes
Author: P. J. SkermanPublisher: Fao
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Cover Crops in West Africa
Author: International Development Research Centre (Canada)Publisher: IDRC
ISBN: 088936852X
Category : Cover crops
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture
Cover Crops for Natural Resource Management in West Africa
Author: CIEPCA.Publisher: IITA
ISBN: 9789781311796
Category : Cover crops
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description