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Maize research and development in Pakistan
(CIMMYT, 1989)
This report reviews maize research and development in Pakistan over the past 30 years. The role, economic importance, principal production environments, trends in production, area and yields, marketing and price trends for ...
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The role of CIMMYT to the progress of maize in Indonesia
(Department of Agriculture Republic of Indonesia; CIMMYT, [2008?])
Maize in Indonesia is the second important food crops with the annual harvested areas of 4.0 M ha with the total production 16.32 M ton (CBS, 2008). However, the country still imports maize to meet its increasing domestic ...
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CIMMYT
(CIMMYT, 1971)
CIMMYT is a new concept of voluntary international cooperation aimed at contributing to rapid and substantial increases in world food production. Its province is wheat and maize, and its goal, in collaboration with interested ...
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Global public goods for poor farmers: myth or reality?
(CIMMYT, 2001)
At the start of a new century, the international agricultural research and development community is undergoing a transformation. Powerful forces are acting to expand research opportunities as never before, but at the same ...
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Legal issues in the use of geospatial data and tools for agriculture and natural resource management: a primer. Executive Summary
(CIMMYT, 2002)
The world of agriculture and natural resource management increasingly employs approaches that emphasize integrative analyses. Multiple disciplines and sources of information are processed with software-based tools such as ...
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Agriculture in the 21st century
(CIMMYT, 2000)
This lecture reviews prospects for meeting the three major challenges confronting agriculture at the start of the 21st century: the food supply challenge, the need for agriculture to play a central role in reducing poverty; ...
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Adoption and impacts of zero-tillage in the rice-wheat zone of irrigated Punjab, Pakistan
(RWC; CIMMYT, 2007)
This study documents the adoption and impacts of zero-tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice wheat systems of Pakistan’s Punjab province primarily drawing on a detailed empirical survey of 458 rice-wheat farmers. Our random ...
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Crop-Livestock Interactions and livelihoods in the indo-gangetic plains, India: a regional synthesis
(CIMMYT, 2007)
The research and development community faces the challenge of sustaining crop productivity gains, improving rural livelihoods, and securing environmental sustainability in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). This calls for a ...
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Impact of zero tillage in India's rice-wheat systems
(CIMMYT, 2007)
To date, the most widely adopted resource conserving technology (RCT) in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) has been zero-tillage (ZT) for wheat after rice, particularly in India. This report reviews and synthesizes the ...
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Maize-rice cropping systems in Bangladesh: status and research opportunities
(CIMMYT, 2008)
Responding to demand from expanding poultry feed markets, maize area in Bangladesh rose from only a few thousand hectares in the 1980s to more than 200,000 hectares in 2007-08. This publication describes the rise of maize ...