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Techniques de commercialisation des céréales

Wheat and rice straws often form the main roughage in the diet of livestock, but they are poor in protein and digestible nutrients. Now researchers at two Indian universities have developed a technique for producing fermented straw.The straw is...

A parasitic wasp is coming to the aid of mango farmers in West Africa, where the mango mealybug has become a pest. The mealybug was first considered serious in Ghana and Togo some seven years ago and then infestations began to occur in Benin,...

The International Livestock Centre for Africa (ILCA) is to establish a forage seed unit at its Debre Zeit research station, south of Addis Ababa. It also intends to expand the activities of the Pasture Network for Eastern and Southern Africa...

Incentive measures for sustainable use and conservation of agrobiodiversity. Experience and lessons from southern Africa. Actes de l’atelier tenu à Lusaka, Zambie, du 11 au 14 septembre 2001. Rédigé par by C. Almekinders, SPGRC — GTZ — IPGRI — CTD

Scientists from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe meeting at the Centro Agronomico Tropical de Investigacion y Ensenanza (CATIE) in June 1987, have established a gliricidia research network. Gliricidia sepium is a multipurpose nitrogen-fixing...

In the coastal town of Thiaroye, near Dakar, Senegal, concrete slabs have been installed for fishers to unload and sell their fish, instead of on the beach. The area has running water and drains. Fish processing plants come directly to the area to...