Vernalization requirement and response to day length are the major factors controlling development in wheat (Triticum aesitvum L.). This study was to determine how they integrate in the field in Obregon, Sonora, Mexico to ...

Yield potential (YP) is defined as the "yield of a cultivar grown in environments to which it is adapted when nutrients and water are nonlimiting, and when pests, diseases, weeds, lodging, and other stresses are effectively ...

This report reviews recent literature regarding impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA, launched in 1994) on maize and wheat farming in Mexico. A basic overview of maize and wheat production in Mexico ...

The Ministry of Lands and Agriculture, Zambia, expressed interese in this approach to planning adaptive agricultural experimental programmes and cooperated with Cimmyt to demonstrate it in part of Serenje District. Chapter ...

This study was undertaken to assess farmers' use of different wheat varieties in two major growing environments of Baluchistan. Overall, farmers planted wheat on 39% of their cultivated area. Overall, 41 percent of the ...

This report presents the results of five years of on-farm studies on wheat production in the rice-wheat zone of the Punjab. The work was started in 1983-84 with an informal diagnostic survey and a formal survey at harvest ...

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 ...

It is widely acknowledged that INRM is a means of achieving the CGIAR’s multiple goals of food security, poverty alleviation, and protection of the natural environment. The CGIAR has defined INRM as "a way of doing ...

In recent years the pace of mechanization has accelerated in Bangladesh. This is largely due to reforms which were undertaken throughout the 1980s. Even after acceleration of mechanization in some specific areas such as ...

Between August 1974 and April 1975, the staff of this center conducted a program review. About 40 senior staff members comprised a panel which examined the research plots in the second cycle of 1974. Field visits required ...