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Conference Proceedings
The Sixth Regional Wheat Workshop for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa
(CIMMYT; CIDA, 1990)
Workshop of The Sixth Regional Wheat Workshop for Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, October 2-6, 1989.
Working Paper
Economic losses from Karnal bunt of wheat in Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1990)
There has been concern in Mexico in recent years about the impact of the disease Kamal bunt (KB) on the wheat industry; however, to date no comprehensive information has been available on the economic impact of the disease. ...
Book
Triticale production in the Central Mexican highlands: smallholders' experiences and lessons for research
(CIMMYT, 1990)
Triticale, a cross between wheat and rye, yields more than ita parent species under two kinds of marginal conditions: highland areas where acid soils and foliar diseases are a problem and semiarid areas where drought stress ...
Conference Proceedings
World perspectives on barley yellow dwarf
(DCAS; CIMMYT, 1990)
Barley yellow dwarf (BYD) is a cereal disease caused by an aphid-transmitted virus belonging to the luteovirus group, members of which cause the yellows diseases. The virus, known as barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV), is ...
Working Paper
Sources of growth in wheat yields in Pakistan's Punjab, 1965-2000: is there a sustainability issue?
(CIMMYT, 1990)
Wheat yields rose rapidly in the Punjab of Pakistan during the Green Revolution decade, 1966-76, but the rate of growth has been significantly slower in the decade that followed. Official statistics indicate that the yield ...
Report
Irrigated wheat in North West Frontier Province: A synthesis of On-farm research results 1983-86
(CIMMYT; PARC, 1990)
This paper presents the data obtained from on-farm experiments on tillage, variety, weed control, and fertilizer in the irrigated areas of Mardan, Peshawar, and Swat Districts of NWFP. More emphasis is given to Mardan ...
Working Paper
Diagnosing research priorities for higher-altitude maize-based farming systems in Swat
(CIMMYT; PARC, 1990)
During 1987, a diagnostic survery was conducted in the higher-altitude farming systems of Swat. This followed a field-specific crop-cut survey of maize fields in the same farming systems in 1985. These surveys were designed ...
Book
Public and private investments in maize research in Mexico and Guatemala
(CIMMYT, 1990)
This paper describes the relationship between public and private sector research and seed production in Mexico and Guatemala. The focus is on public agricultural research institutes and local and multinational seed
Working Paper
Technical change, productivity, and sustainability in irrigated cropping systems of South Asia: emerging issues in the post-green revolution era
(CIMMYT, 1990)
Recent trends in South Asia's Irrigated cropping systems are analyzed, giving particular attention to systems in which wheat is an important crop. Much of the recent success in increasing food production in South Asia is ...
Report
Wheat in the cotton-based cropping systems of the irrigated Sindh
(CIMMYT; PARC, 1990)
The cotton-wheat cropping system is the most important in Pakistani agriculture. In Sindh more than one million hectares of wheat is cultivated, out of which almost 80% of area is grown under the cotton wheat cropping ...