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Finger millet blast management in East Africa Creating opportunities for improving production and utilization of finger millet

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Title Finger millet blast management in East Africa
Creating opportunities for improving production and utilization of finger millet
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Finger millet, native to East Africa, is entwined in the local culture and traditions. However, in spite of its importance to the livelihoods of millions of small-holder farmers in East Africa, its valuable nutritional and processing properties, the growing demand exceeding supply, and its regional and international trade potential, finger millet has largely been neglected by national and international research organizations and major donors to agricultural research in sub-Saharan Africa. This neglect has contributed to a lack of realization of the potential productivity of finger millet. Increased production, utilization and trade of finger millet in East Africa are currently limited by a number of constraints. The most serious biotic constraint is the blast disease caused by the fungus Magnaporthe grisea. Blast affects finger millet at all growth stages, particularly causing major losses through neck and panicle infections.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Contributor Mgonja , M A
Lenné, J M
Manyasa, E
Sreenivasaprasad, S
 
Date 2007
 
Type Book
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/307/1/CO_0002.pdf
Mgonja , M A and Lenné, J M and Manyasa, E and Sreenivasaprasad, S, eds. (2007) Finger millet blast management in East Africa Creating opportunities for improving production and utilization of finger millet. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. ISBN 9789290665052