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Sorghum cultivation and improvement in West and Central Africa

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Title Sorghum cultivation and improvement in West and Central Africa
 
Creator Weltzien, E
Rattunde, H F W
van Mourik, T A
Ajeigbe, H A
 
Subject Crop Improvement
Plant Breeding
Pest Management
Sorghum
African Agriculture
Plant Disease
West Africa
Central Africa
 
Description The diversity of sorghum cultivated in Africa attests to the African origin of this crop. Ten to
25 or more varieties of sorghum may be cultivated as distinct pure stands in a single village
in Mali (Siart, 2008) or Burkina Faso (Barro-Kondombo et al., 2010). In Northern Cameroon,
varietal mixtures are cultivated, with each mixture containing 12 varieties on average
(Barnaud et al., 2006). Farmers have developed strategies for using varietal diversity to
minimize risk and maximize productivity in the context of complex and diverse adaptive
challenges, strategies developed over several thousand years of cultivating sorghum.
The diversity of sorghum types cultivated reflects the wide and contrasting ecosystems in
which it is cultivated and the range of ways it is used (Rooney, 2004)...
 
Publisher Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited
 
Contributor Rooney, W
 
Date 2018
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11096/1/Chapter%20Sorghum%20in%20WCA%209781786761248-011.pdf
Weltzien, E and Rattunde, H F W and van Mourik, T A and Ajeigbe, H A (2018) Sorghum cultivation and improvement in West and Central Africa. In: Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2: Sorghum utilization around the world. Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science (32). Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, pp. 1-24. ISBN 978-1786761248