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Adoption and impacts of zero-tillage in the rice-wheat zone of irrigated Haryana, India
(RWC; CIMMYT, 2007)
This study documents the adoption and impacts of zero-tillage (ZT) wheat in the rice-wheat systems of India’s Haryana State primarily drawing on a detailed empirical survey of 400 rice-wheat farmers. Our random stratified ...
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A biophysical and socioeconomic characterization of the cereal production systems of Northwest Bangladesh
(CIMMYT, 2016)
The present study assesses cereal production in selected areas of NW-Bangladesh, especially with respect to the biophysical and socio-economic characterization of cereal producing farm households. Three major cereal crops, ...
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Conservation agriculture, improving soil quality for sustainable production systems?
(CIMMYT, 2012)
Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on the environment. Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when combined with removal or in situ burning ...
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The impact of conservation tillage on the productivity and stability of maize cropping systems: a case study in Western Mexico
(CIMMYT, 2001)
This paper examines the economics of introducing conservation tillage into existing maize cropping systems in the state of Jalisco, in the western part of Mexico. A stochastic cost-benefit analysis (SCBA) of introducing ...
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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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Conservation agriculture and soil carbon sequestration: between myth and farmer reality
(CIMMYT, 2009)
Human efforts to produce ever-greater amounts of food leave their mark on the environment. Persistent use of conventional farming practices based on extensive tillage, especially when combined with removal or in situ burning ...
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The adoption of bed planting of wheat in the Yaqui Valley, Sonora, Mexico
(CIMMYT, 1998)
This report presents results of the analysis of data from a survey conducted during the fall-winter 1993/94 crop cycle in the Yaqui Valley of northwestern Mexico. It describes the agronomic characters of wheat producers ...
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Impacts of CIMMYT's international training linked to long-term trials in conservation agriculture: 1996-2006
(CIMMYT, 2009)
This study focused on the training of scientists who work in public, private, or non-governmental sectors in the areas of agronomy and sustainable management of natural resources. Of the 82 trainees who participated in ...
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The adoption of conservation tillage in a hillside maize production system in Motozintla, Chiapas
(CIMMYT, 1997)
Data from a 1994 survey of 82 farmers who grow maize on steep hillsides in Motozintla, Chiapas, provided information on agricultural practices, including the adoption of conservation tillage practices; the profitability ...
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An economic analysis of the abonera maize production system in the Atlantic Coast of Honduras
(CIMMYT, 1998)
This paper compares the economics of the abonera maize production system, in which maize is grown in rotation with a green manure crop (velvetbean, mucuna deeringiana), with traditional bush-fallow cultivation of maize in ...