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Badakshan is located in the extreme northeastern comer of Afghanistan and has not yet come under Taliban control. The province is virtually cut off from the rest of the country and is traditionally food deficient. The 20-year-old conflict in the region has further aggravated the situation, causin...

This paper presents information from a study on farmers' seed-management practices growing pearl millet in Rajasthan, India. It describes farmers' own crop-improvement activities in regard to yield, quality, and diversity of pearl millet, with emphasis on seed-management strategies, such as intro...

En Caisán y San Andrés, Distrito de Renacimiento, provincia de Chiriquí, Panamá, se ha implementado un proyecto de producción de semillas de frijol poroto bajo on sistema no convencional o artesanal, el cual es financiado por PROFRIJOL y es atendido por técnicos del Instituto de Investigación Agr...

Seeds provide an efficient method for disseminating pathogenic organisms to different locations; more than 50 percent of the major bean diseases are seed borne. Mechanical damage, which may occur during harvesting, threshing and/or planting can affect seed viability, germination, and result in co...

La semilla constituye un metodo eficiente de diseminacion de organismos fitopatogenos a diversas localidades; mas de 50 por ciento de las principales enfermedades del frijol son transmitidas por la semilla. El dano mecanico que ocurre durante la cosecha, trilla y/o siembra tambien puede afectar l...

A maize farmer describes her experiences learning and using new technologies to improving Her maize crop.

Adequate resources and infrastructure for the exchange of cassava germplasm are discussed according to the type of material received (sexual seed, cuttings, and meristems). The final objective of exchanging cassava germplasm among different countries is to obtain improved var.; in order to do so,...

Se analizan los recursos y la infraestructura adecuados para el intercambio de germoplasma de yuca segun el tipo de material que se reciba (semilla sexual, estacas y meristemas). El objetivo final del intercambio de yuca entre diferentes paises es obtener var. mejoradas; para lograrlo se requiere...

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...

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...