Intensifying maize-based cropping systems in the Sierra de Santa Marta, Veracruz
Author: | Buckles, D. |
Author: | Erenstein, O. |
Year: | 1996 |
ISSN: | 1405-2830 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10883/938 |
Abstract: | This paper focuses on intensifying maize-based cropping systems in the Sierra de Santa Marta Region of Veracruz, Mexico. Following a description of the study area, the paper examines the historical forces that have shaped regional maize-based cropping systems, current maize production practices, and major productivity and sustainability constraints. Potential solutions to these constraints, some of which have been successfully tested in the area, are described and possible productivity and sustainability impacts are appraised in qualitative terms. The appraisal provides the basis for a quantitative analysis of the farm-level costs and benefits associated with the adoption of the alternative practices. A farmer-based approach to extension is described and implementation costs are estimated. |
Format: | |
Language: | English |
Publisher: | CIMMYT |
Serie: | CIMMYT NRG Paper |
Copyright: | CIMMYT manages Intellectual Assets as International Public Goods. The user is free to download, print, store and share this work. In case you want to translate or create any other derivative work and share or distribute such translation/derivative work, please contact CIMMYT-Knowledge-Center@cgiar.org indicating the work you want to use and the kind of use you intend; CIMMYT will contact you with the suitable license for that purpose. |
Type: | Book |
Country focus: | Mexico |
Region: | North America |
Place of Publication: | Mexico |
Pages: | vi, 55 pages |
Serie Number: | 96-07 |
Agrovoc: | CROPPING SYSTEMS |
Agrovoc: | MAIZE |
Agrovoc: | CROP PRODUCTION |
Agrovoc: | SOIL CONSERVATION |
Agrovoc: | CROPPING SYSTEMS |
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