Outlines an economic evaluation of an improved surface drainage technology, using the broad-bed-maker (BBM) on-farm in four different vertisol areas of the Ethiopian highlands. Presents data on crops and number of areas covered for the on-farm drainage technology, on cost structure of the BBM, an...
Asamenew, G.
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Jutzi, S.C.
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Tedla, A.
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McIntire, John M.
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[Economic evaluation of improved vertisol drainage for food crop production in the Ethiopian highlands]
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Economic evaluation of improved vertisol drainage for food crop production in the Ethiopian highlands
Describes interactions between cropping & livestock husbandry in an area of Fulani settlement arid farming groups at Abet and in a Fulani agropastoral system at Kurmin Biri, both in subhumid Nigeria, identifying the linkages as being feed from fallow land crop residues (CR) grazing and use of cat...
McIntire, John M.
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Bourzat, D.
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Pingali, Prabhu L.
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[Crop-Livestock Interaction in Sub-Sarahan Africa]
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Crop-Livestock Interaction in Sub-Sarahan Africa
Proposes a method to estimate the trade-off between sorghum grain and straw yield in agronomic trials. Describes a theory of the conflict between the two products. presents data from sorghum cultivar trials in Ethiopia, as well as a method of evaluating sorghum grain and straw.
McIntire, John M.
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Reed, J.D.
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Jutzi, S.C.
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Tedla, A.
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Kebede, Y.
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[Evaluating sorghum cultivars for grain and straw yield]
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Evaluating sorghum cultivars for grain and straw yield