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Wet paddy or swamp rice - vol 21 (En)

Series: Better Farming SeriesInitially published by arrangement with INADES, Institut africain pour le développement économique et social, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Better Farming Series booklets are designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural education and training courses. They may be ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Farm ponds for water, fish and livelihoods

Ponds add value to farming activities: water form ponds can serve domestic and livestock water supplies as well as irrigation for crops. Raising fish is an obvious use for a farm pound; it adds value to the water, and provides improved nutrition for farm families. This booklet provides basic and practical ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Agriculture and poverty in commodity dependent African countries. A rural household perspective from the United Republic of Tanzania (En)

Series: FAO Commodities and Trade Technical PapersThis report explores how farm productivity affects poverty, and how various factor market constraints affect farm productivity. The empirical analysis draws on representative surveys of farm households in Kilimanjaro and Ruvuma, two cash crop growing ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Contract farming. Partnerships for growth (En)

Series: FAO Agricultural Services BulletinsContract farming can be defined as an agreement between farmers and processing and/or marketing firms for the production and supply of agricultural products under forward agreements. Interest in contract farming is expanding. The purpose of this guide is to provide ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Pongamia Growing and Care Instruction Manual

and Practices to help you grow a Failsafe Pongamia Farm ...

By Advanced Biofuel Center
Explore on-farm. On-farm trials for adapting and adopting good agricultural practices (En)

Explore On-farm aims at improving sustainable production of rainfed wheat-based farming systems. It brings researchers, farmers and extension agents together, on-farm, to carry out guided and collaborative crop trials. The trials should lead to the identification and reduction of constraints to ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Farm power and mechanization for small farms in sub-Saharan Africa (En)

Series: Agricultural and food engineering technical reportsMany previous publications on farm mechanization, draught animal power, hand tool technology, etc. have tended to be narrowly focused. They dealt with tractors, or with draught animal, or with intermediate technology. The topic of farm power and ...

By Earthprint Ltd
On-farm mycotoxin control in food and feed grain (En)

Series: Good practices for animal feed and livestockThis booklet is directed at the farm situation, providing advice that can be used to avoid mycotoxin contamination before food leaves the farm. The booklet describes what mycotoxins are, how they are produced and how to recognise signs of their presence. It ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Simple methods for aquaculture. Manuals from the FAO Training Series - Méthodes simples d'aquaculture - Metodos sencillos para la acuicultura. Version

Five training manuals on "Simple Methods for Aquaculture" and the "Handbook on Small-scale Freshwater Fish Farming" are presented on the CD-ROM. These manuals are written in simple language, focusing on the practical aspects of semi-intensive fish culture in freshwaters from site selection and fish farm ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Use and potential of wild plants in farm households (En )

Series: FAO Farm Systems Management Series This book aims to raise awareness of the role of wild plants in many farming systems, providing examples from different systems around the world. It describes the contribution of wild plants as a source of food, fuelwood, shelter, medicines and dyes and their role in ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Associations in the emergent communities at the Amazon forest frontier, Mato Grosso

A broad arch of deforestation spans the lower Brazilian Amazon, cutting through the State of Mato Grosso. At the forest frontier, varied traditions of family farming are being adapted by migrant settlers of diverse origins. The forceful expansion of soybean plantations led by global markets is displacing family ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Farming for Health

Farming for Health describes the utilization of agricultural farms, farm animals, plants and landscapes as a base for promoting human mental and physical health and social well-being. This book gives an overview of the development of ‘Farming for Health’ initiatives across Europe. This development is a logical ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sustainable Agriculture and the International Rice-Wheat System

Addressing a topic of major importance to the maintenance of world food supplies, this reference identifies knowledge gaps, defines priorities, and formulates recommendations for the improvement of the rice-wheat farming system. The book reveals new systems of rice intensification and management and ...

By CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group
Farming for Health

Farming for Health describes the utilization of agricultural farms, farm animals, plants and landscapes as a base for promoting human mental and physical health and social well-being. This book gives an overview of the development of ‘Farming for Health’ initiatives across Europe. This development is a logical ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH
Directory of crocodilian farming operations

This is the second edition of the Directory of crocodilian farming operations, first published in 1985. The first edition attempted to list all commercial farms, and was primarily intended as a conservation tool to assist government agencies in identifying legal sources of crocodilian skins, and wildlife ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Guide to good dairy farming practice 2004 (En)

This guide has been developed by the FAO/International Diary Federation Task Force on Good Dairy Farming Practices in a user-friendly format for dairy farmers. When adopted it will support the marketing of safe, quality-assured milk and dairy products, and focus on the relationship between consumer safety and ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Roots and tubers - vol 16 (En)

Series: Better Farming SeriesInitially published by arrangement with INADES, Institut africain pour le développement économique et social, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Better Farming Series booklets are designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural education and training courses. They may be ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Advanced Oil Crop Biorefineries

In Europe, the main oil-rich crops are sunflower, rapeseed and olive which are grown primarily for food. This book discusses how to convert this whole crop into energy (fuels, power and heat), food and bioproducts (chemicals and/or materials), whilst making optimal use of the by-products generated during ...

By Royal Society of Chemistry
Strategic reassessment of fish farming potential in Africa (A) (En)

Series: CIFA Technical Papers(Reprint. First published in 1998) The present study is an update of an earlier assessment of warm-water fish farming potential in Africa, by Kapetsky (1994). The objective of this study was to assess locations and areal expanses that have potential for warm-water and temperate-water ...

By Earthprint Ltd
Better farming series - Complete set (En)

Series: Better Farming SeriesBETTER FARMING SERIES: Designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural aducation and training courses. The complete set includes 45 booklets. Each separate booklet: US$4.00 (This series was initially produced by arrangement with the "Institut africain pour le ...

By Earthprint Ltd

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