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Rainfed maize production in Mexico: trends, constraints, and technological and institutional challenges for researchers
(CIMMYT, 1992)
This paper reviews trends in rainfed maize production in Mexico over the past several decades, and the experience of lNIFAP/ CIMMYT/ CIRAD on-farm research (OFR) in Mexico's lowland tropics, to evaluate the prospects for ...
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Farmers' taxonomies as a participatory diagnostic tool: soil fertility management in Chihota, Zimbabwe
(CIMMYT, 1999)
Soil infertility is a major constraint to food production in the communal areas of Zimbabwe. Smallholders in the region recognise the problems of low soil fertility and have devised ways of coping with them. This study ...
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La producción de maíz de temporal en México: tendencias, restricciones y retos tecnológicos e institucionales para los investigadores
(CIMMYT, 1992)
Este documento examina las tendencias de la producción de maíz de temporal en México en los últimos decenios y la experiencia del INIFAP / OMMYT/ ORAD en la investigación en fincas (IEF) en las tierras bajas tropicales de ...
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Developing production of a non-traditional crop in Southeast Asia: wheat in Thailand
(CIMMYT, 1998)
Urbanization has led to increased wheat imports by nontraditional, wheat producing countries. Globally, Southeast Asia has had the most rapid increase in wheat consumption. Over the past decade, Thailand, Indonesia, the ...
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Perfil del maiz, Panama: sus implicaciones en el establecimiento de prioridades de investigacion
(CIMMYT, 1989)
La República de Panamá posee extensión territorial de 78,200 KM2, con aproximadamente 31 habitantes por kilómetro cuadrado. Durante los últimos 13 años, la población registró un índice de crecimiento de 2.4% anual. ...
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Les problemes de l'intensification cerealiere dans le secteur prive en Algerie
(CIMMYT, 1983)
Ce rapport résume les résultats d'une recherche réalissés en Algérie de 1979 á 1981. Il s'adresse á des décideurs en matiére d'orientation des recherches sur les céréales, de vulgarisation des techniques ameliorees et ...
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Economic policy and technology determinants of the comparative advantage of wheat production in Sudan
(CIMMYT, 1993)
Relative profitability and the domestic resource cost (DRC)methodology are used to evaluate the comparative advantage of irrigated wheat versus cotton in Sudan's Gezira Scheme. Relative profitability analysis reveals the ...
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Technical change and wheat productivity in the Indian Punjab in the post green revolution period
(CIMMYT, 1992)
Major changes in the wheat economy of Punjab State, India, since the Widespread adoption of modern varieties (MVs) in the early 1970s, are summarized from an analysis of trends in micro-level farm data and by using an index ...
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Sixth Stakeholders Meeting: Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA II) Project
(KARI; CIMMYT, 2006)
The Insect Resistant Maize for Africa (IRMA) project is a joint venture between the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) and the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI), with financial support ...
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Wheat Facts and Futures 2009
(CIMMYT, 2009)
For nearly half a century, the international wheat breeding system has delivered improved high yielding varieties of wheat that created (along with rice) the Green Revolution and underpinned strong growth in wheat productivity ...