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Conservation tillage or residue conservation? An evaluation of residue management in Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1997)
The key to conservation tillage is the use of crop residues as mulch. However, there is some confusion over the term conservation tillage, among other things, because too much emphasis has been placed on tillage. Since ...
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Maize Research Highlights 1999-2000
(CIMMYT, 2000)
Few businesses or consumer products are central to the nutrition, livelihoods, and even survival of people in settings as diverse as the Brazilian prairies, the backlands of Bihar, India, northern Mexican deserts at sea ...
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The genetics and exploitation of heterosis in crops: an internacional symposium
(CIMMYT, 1997)
Welcome to the "International Symposium on the Genetics and Exploitation of Heterosis in Crops." Heterosis has significantly increased the productivity and quality of major crops in our century, contributing additional ...
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Development, maintenance and seed multiplication of open-pollinated maize varieties
(CIMMYT, 1999)
The procedures for the production of maize hybrid seed and maintenance of parental lines are well documented. However, not much has been written on the development, maintenance, and multiplication of improved open pollinated ...
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Suwan-1: maize from Thailand to the world
(CIMMYT, 1993)
The CIMMYT Maize Program is committed to helping national programs develop and disseminate improved germplasm and production technology. Our contributions are well documented; our work could be deemed a success story. This ...
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The farming systems of the Texizapan watershed, Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz, Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1998)
The main farming systems of the Texizapan watershed in southern Veracruz, Mexico (200-1,640 meters above sea level) were characterized through a formal survey in 1995. Farm-level data included an inventory of resources ...
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Institutional change and discontinuities in farmers' use of hybrid maize seed and fertilizer in Malawi: findings from the 1996-97 CIMMYT/MoLD Survey
(CIMMYT, 1998)
This study records the use of hybrid maize seed and fertilizer by small-scale farmers in Malawi, as well as their opinions about these inputs, from 1989-90 through 1996-97. Its main purpose is to determine whether the ...
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Adoption of maize production technologies in Eastern Tanzania
(The United Republic of Tanzania; SACCAR; CIMMYT, 1998)
This study of the adoption of maize production technologies in Eastern Tanzania forms part of a larger study to evaluate the impact of maize research and extension throughout Tanzania over the past 20 years. Using a ...
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Adoption of maize production technologies in Western Tanzania
(The United Republic of Tanzania; SACCAR; CIMMYT, 1998)
This study of the adoption of maize production technologies in Western Tanzania forms part of a larger study to evaluate the impact of maize research and extension throughout Tanzania over the past 20 years. Using a ...
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Farmers' seed selection practices and maize variety characteristics in a traditionally-based Mexican community
(CIMMYT, 1998)
Experimental results and farmers surveys in a Mexican community indicates that farmers' seed selection practices protect the phenological integrity of their maize varieties as they define them, despite numerous factors ...