Improving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in West Africa Agro-Ecosystems

Improving the Profitability, Sustainability and Efficiency of Nutrients Through Site Specific Fertilizer Recommendations in West Africa Agro-Ecosystems
Author: Andre Bationo
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2018-04-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3319587897

As part of its efforts to improve fertilizer use and efficiency in West Africa, and following the recent adoption of the West African fertilizer recommendation action plan (RAP) by ECOWAS, this volume focuses on IFDC's technical lead with key partner institutions and experts to build on previous and current fertilizer recommendations for various crops and countries in West Africa for wider uptake by public policy makers and fertilizer industry actors.

Rice in the Tropics

Rice in the Tropics
Author: Robert Flint Chandler
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 278
Release: 1979
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0891583629

The importance of rive as a world crops, and its principal characteristics. The modern rice plant and the new technology: Greater potentials for rice production in the tropics. Problems of postharvest technology. Rice marketing. Some successful rice production programs. Promising rice research. Elements of a successful accelerated rice production program. A national rice program: putting the ingredients together.

Rainfed Lowland Rice Improvement

Rainfed Lowland Rice Improvement
Author: David J. Mackill
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1996
Genre: Rainfed lowland rice
ISBN: 971220071X

What is rainfed lowland rice? The rainfed lowland ecosystem; The cultivars; Agronomic traits; Growth duration; Drought resistance; Submergence tolerance; Cold tolerance; Adverse soils telerance; Disease and insect resistance; Grain quality; Selecting parents and making crosses; Managing segregating generations; Evaluating advanced breeding lines; Releasing varieties.

The Sustainability of Rice Farming

The Sustainability of Rice Farming
Author: D. J. Greenland
Publisher: Cabi
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1997
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780851991634

The importance of the sustainability of rice farming; The origins and history of rice farming; Rice farming today; The biophysical basis of the sustainability of rice farming; Maintaining the nutrient requirements of rice; Maintaining water supplies for rice; Social and economic factors and the sustainability of rice farming; Concerns about the sustainability of rice faming; Increasing and sustaining rice production.

Rice

Rice
Author: Achim Dobermann
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2000
Genre: Nutrition
ISBN: 9810427425

Rice ecosystems; Nutrient management; Mineral deficiencies; Mineral toxicities; Tools and information.

Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture

Fertilizer Use in African Agriculture
Author:
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 162
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0821368818

The good practice guidelines - which form the basis of an interactive policymaker's tool kit included on a CD accompanying the book - relate not only to the more focused problem of encouraging increased fertilizer use by farmers, but also to the broader challenge of creating the type of enabling environment that is needed to support the emergence of efficient, dynamic and commercially viable fertilizer marketing systems."--Jacket.

Weeds in Tropical Crops

Weeds in Tropical Crops
Author: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher: HP Trade
Total Pages: 766
Release: 1981
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9789251011461

Rice

Rice
Author: Frank R. Moormann
Publisher:
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1978
Genre: Plant-water relationships
ISBN:

Chapter 1: Rice and its environment. Chapter 2: The geography of rice (oryza sativa L.). Chapter 3: The hidrology of rice-lands. Chapter 4: Classification of soils on which rice is Grown. Chapter 5: Soil-forming process in aquatic rice lands. Chapter 6: Soil and land properties that affect the growth of rice. Chapter 7: Elements for evaluation of land for rice growing.