Scientific training at CIAT continues to support the efforts of researchers particularly with respect to the training of technicians in the evaluation of promising germplasm. For training outside CIAT headquarters, greater emphasis was given to the study of limiting bean production factors at the...
La capacitacion cientifica en CIAT continua apoyando los esfuerzos de los investigadores, particularmente en relacion con la capacitacion de tecnicos para la evaluacion de germoplasma promisorio. En la capacitacion en sedes fuera de CIAT, el mayor enfasis se dio al estudio de los factores limitan...
During 1984, intensive on-farm trials were conducted in northern, southern, and central Narino, Colombia, and emphasis was given to the continuation of var. trials and their expansion to determine economic levels and to verification trials. In northern and central Narino, a limited no. of verific...
Durante 1984 se realizaron intensos ensayos a nivel de finca en el norte, centro y sur de Narino, Colombia; se dio enfasis a la continuacion de los ensayos var. y a su expansion para determinar los niveles economicos y a los ensayos de verificacion. En el norte y centro de Narino se sembraron un ...
The activities on character deployment involve the recombination or use of desirable characters (e.g., level of resistance to diseases and insect pests, tolerance to drought, ability to fix atmospheric N) in commercial cv., according to the needs of the particular production region for which the ...
Las actividades en despliegue de caracteres involucran la recombinacion o uso de caracteres deseables (como nivel de resistencia a enfermedades y plagas, tolerancia a sequia, capacidad fijadora de N atmosferico) en cv. comerciales, de acuerdo con las necesidades de la region productora especifica...
The CIAT Bean Program uses a 3-stage progeny evaluation program asfollows: (a) the VEF, which in 1984 contained 1004 entries distributed in 10 groups according to seed color and size, growth habit (bush or climbing), and climatic adaptation; (b) the EP, which consisted of 446 entries and 38 contr...
El Programa de Frijol del CIAT utiliza un programa de evaluacion de progenie de 3 etapas como sigue: a) el VEF, que en 1984 contenia 1004 entradas distribuidas en 10 grupos segun el color y tamano de la semilla, habito de crecimiento (arbustivo o voluble) y adaptacion climatica; b) el EP, que con...
This paper applies econometric analyses to quantitatively determine the individual risk attitudes of sampled maize farmers in the dry savanna zone of Nigeria. The extent of the risk attitudes are then made the basis for categorizing the farmers into three groups of low, intermediate and high risk...
Olarinde, L.O.
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Manyong, Victor M.
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Akintola, J.O.
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[Attitudes towards risk among maize farmers in the dry savanna zone of Nigeria: some prospective policies for improving food production]
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Attitudes towards risk among maize farmers in the dry savanna zone of Nigeria: some prospective policies for improving food production
Smith, J.
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[Socioeconomic characterization of environments and technologies in humid and subhumid regions of West and Central Africa: RCMP research monograph, No. 10]
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Socioeconomic characterization of environments and technologies in humid and subhumid regions of West and Central Africa: RCMP research monograph, No. 10
On-farm research is aimed at developing technologies well match the goals and environment of farmers. At its various stages of diagnosis, choice of techniques, testing and validating technologies, ones would always ask questions: what technologies are developed, for whom and how? In this paper me...
Research institutes in Africa have had limited success in producing new technologies appropriate to the needs of small farmers because of an inadequate understanding of small farmers' goals and resource limitations and over-reliance on the transfer of technologies from other regions. Farming syst...
Spencer, D.
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[Institutionalizing the farming systems perspective in multicommodity research institute: the role of systemsbased research groups]
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Institutionalizing the farming systems perspective in multicommodity research institute: the role of systemsbased research groups
Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz)/Maize (Zea mays L.) intercropping is so popular in Nigeria that a cassava/maize intercropping package is recommended to small-scale farmers. Farmers insist on including low-growing vegetables like okra (Abelmoschus esculentus Moench) and egusi melon (Citrullus l...
Ikeorgu, J.
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Ezumah, H.C.
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Wahua, T.A.
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[Productivity of species in cassava/maize/okra/egusi melon complex mixtures in Nigeria]
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Productivity of species in cassava/maize/okra/egusi melon complex mixtures in Nigeria
Mutsaers, H.J.
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Walker, P.
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[On-farm research in theory and practice: proceedings of a workshop on design and analysis of onfarm trials 27 February to 3 March 1989]
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On-farm research in theory and practice: proceedings of a workshop on design and analysis of onfarm trials 27 February to 3 March 1989