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Useful books
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Richard A Mwanakuluya of the Natural Resources Conservation and Land Use Management project in Iringa, Tanzania, writes of 'the way the books you have sent have helped us. In our project villages there are a lot of Digitaria abyssinica weeds, particularly on newly opened land or land which has been fallow for one or two years. Farmers have experienced poor germination and initial crop establishment and we had no clear answer to this. Through your books we learnt that decomposing D. abyssinica stovers have an allelopathic effect (which inhibits growth ed.) on young crop plants. We therefore advised farmers either to let the dead material decompose completely, or to remove it from the field. Another problem we had was how to reintroduce agroforestry in our villages given the ever increasing shortage of land, trees for construction and firewood, and low farm fertility. The agroforestry systems which were available did not fit well with farmers culture and traditions, but through the books you sent we have learnt that alley farming may fit better. Richard A Mwanakuluya of the Natural Resources Conservation and Land Use Management project in Iringa, Tanzania, writes of 'the way the books you have sent have helped us. In our project villages there are a lot of Digitaria abyssinica weeds,... |
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2014-10-16T09:05:56Z
2014-10-16T09:05:56Z 2001 |
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News Item
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CTA. 2001. Useful books. Spore 93. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46215 |
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en
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Spore;93
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CTA
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Spore
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