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Book Vertisols and Technologies for their Management

Download or read book Vertisols and Technologies for their Management written by N. Ahmad and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1996-12-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vertisols, one of the eleven established soil orders, are clay soils with unusual and interesting properties. They cover more than 350 million hectares of land in the world and in tropical Africa alone there are over 100 million hectares. Because of their very small particle size and high surface area, these soils have higher physical and chemical reactivity than other soils. Their interaction with agrochemicals/industrial wastes, has been, increasingly, the subject of research especially in the last two decades. Vertisols create special problems when used for engineering purposes. This book is intended to provide comprehensive and state-of-the-art information about Vertisols worldwide. Special attention is given to the use and management of soils such as fertilizer use, crop selection, soil tillage, water restriction on land including irrigation, and soil erosion. A special chapter has been added to deal with geotechnical engineering of Vertisols. Vertisols have great potential for agricultural production but many, especially in the developing world, are underutilized due to a lack of understanding regarding their behaviour and management. This book is written by leading scientists worldwide. It is expected that this monograph will be of great use to soil scientists and agronomists, graduate and senior graduate students. Improvement of their management may solve the current food deficiency in the world.

Book Cover Crops in West Africa

Download or read book Cover Crops in West Africa written by International Development Research Centre (Canada) and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover Crops in West Africa Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture

Book ILCA in Print

Download or read book ILCA in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The African Book Publishing Record

Download or read book The African Book Publishing Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book PGRC E ILCA Germplasm Newsletter

Download or read book PGRC E ILCA Germplasm Newsletter written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crop livestock Interaction in Sub Sarahan Africa

Download or read book Crop livestock Interaction in Sub Sarahan Africa written by John McIntire and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1992 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the result of a collaborative research effort between the World Bank and the International Livestock Centre for Africa. It extends previous work on agricultural mechanization and the evolution of farming systems in Africa by seeking to answer a number of basic questions about the integration of crops and livestock in sub - Saharan Africa. Those questions include the role of mixed farming in promoting agricultural growth, the appropriate points at which to encourage the use of animals as sources of farm power, the contribution of animals to improving the poor fertility of African soils, the efficacy of different methods to better livestock nutrition, and the economic returns to incorporating livestock production on small farms. While many individual studies have analyzed such issues in the past, this book is the first comprehensive review of existing knowledge which offers general explanations of crop-livestock relations with respect to both economic and technical features of African agriculture. In doing so, experimental evidence is carefully synthesized and examined in light of field visits to thirty-three different sites through the major agroclimates of sub - Saharan Africa. The detailed empirical nature of the book permits specific conclusions to be drawn for different farming systems, while its comparisons across those systems allow broad explanations of contrasting crop-livestock interactions.

Book Shrubs and Tree Fodders for Farm Animals

Download or read book Shrubs and Tree Fodders for Farm Animals written by C. Devendra and published by IDRC (International Development Research Centre). This book was released on 1990 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shrubs and Tree Fodders for Farm Animals

Book African Books in Print

Download or read book African Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Farming Systems of the African Savanna

Download or read book Farming Systems of the African Savanna written by A. Ker and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1995 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farming Systems of the African Savanna: A continent in crisis

Book ILCA Annual Report 1990

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Livestock Centre for Africa
  • Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
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  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book ILCA Annual Report 1990 written by International Livestock Centre for Africa and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Livestock s Long Shadow

Download or read book Livestock s Long Shadow written by Henning Steinfeld and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The assessment builds on the work of the Livestock, Environment and Development (LEAD) Initiative"--Pref.

Book Joint Acquisitions List of Africana

Download or read book Joint Acquisitions List of Africana written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Accessions List  Eastern Africa

Download or read book Accessions List Eastern Africa written by Library of Congress. Library of Congress Office, Nairobi, Kenya and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Number 6 includes cumulative main and added entry index for the monographs listed in that year.

Book ILCA Annual Programme Report 1994

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  • Author : International Livestock Centre for Africa
  • Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
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  • Pages : 234 pages

Download or read book ILCA Annual Programme Report 1994 written by International Livestock Centre for Africa and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Crop Residues in Sustainable Mixed Crop livestock Farming Systems

Download or read book Crop Residues in Sustainable Mixed Crop livestock Farming Systems written by C. Renard and published by Cabi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological constraints and opportunities in relation to class of livestock and production objectives; Trhe influence of socioeconomic factors on the availability and utilization of crop residues as animal feeds; Crop residues in Tropical Africa: trends in supply, demand and use; Cowpea and its improvement: key to sustainable mixed crop/livestock farming systems in West Africa; Dynamics of feed resources in mixed farming systems in Southeast, South Asia; West/Central Asia-North Africaand Latin America; Crop residues as a strategic resource in mixed farming systems; Alternatives to crop residues as feed resource in mixed farming systems; Alternatives to crop residues for soil amendment; Crop residues for feeding animals in Asia: technology development and adoption in crop/livestock systems; The national perspective: a synthesis of country reports presented at the Workshop.

Book ILCA Annual Report 1991

    Book Details:
  • Author : International Livestock Centre for Africa
  • Publisher : ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD)
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  • Pages : 104 pages

Download or read book ILCA Annual Report 1991 written by International Livestock Centre for Africa and published by ILRI (aka ILCA and ILRAD). This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: