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Smallholder farmer grain-legume integration in central Malawi

After four years of farmers' on-farm experimentation with grain-legume technologies, we conducted a field experiment on thirty collaborative research trials to ...

Farmer experimentation to assess the potential of legumes in maize ...

The AusAID/ACIAR/CIMMYT Risk Management Project develops resource-conserving farming methods in collaboration with smallholder farmers, combining use of crop ...

social ecological modeling for maize-legume systems across Africa

2) and its purpose was to serve as a decision support tool for evaluating hypothetical interventions intended to control the spread of Striga (across 20 years).

(PDF) Participatory evaluation of drought tolerant maize varieties in ...

This is consistent with the results of [47] , who reported that participatory variety selection is an avenue that adds new and more information to what farmers ...

maize variety trial – setup and procedures - UF/IFAS

Farmers, breeders, and researchers work together in a Variety Trial Net- work to evaluate maize cultivars in on-station and on-farm experiments. • Distribute ...

The use of participatory breeding and testing networks in maize ...

... tool in the U.S. to develop high-yielding crop varieties for organic systems with specific traits of interest for organic growers. The origin of participatory ...

Rapid gains in yield and adoption of new maize varieties for ...

farmers' field trials (CFFTs) of the national maize research pro- ... to the trial means that represented an environmental index (Fin- lay ...

Maize Open-Pollinated Populations Physiological Improvement ...

... means of the different traits at each experimental ... surfaces: A case study of maize ... Setting up decision-making tools towards a quality-oriented participatory ...

Data Collection, Site Selection and Farmer Participation in On- Farm ...

The field book should be regarded as a tool which is to be used during the management of the year's trials and as a source of information in future years for ...

Setting Up Decision-Making Tools toward a Quality-Oriented ...

(3) To build decision-making tools to enable an accurate population selection within a quality-oriented participatory breeding program, by complementing the ...

the use of participatory breeding and testing networks in maize

Chapter 1 reviews how participatory breeding programs (PBP) can be a potential breeding tool in the U.S. to develop high- yielding crop varieties for organic ...

On-farm experiments on cultivation of grain legumes for food

However, factors that can enable farmer–researcher collaborative on-farm experiments to become a powerful tool in implementation of novel and/or ...

tolerant maize hybrids in Eastern Africa - CIMMYT Repository

The common tool for farmer evaluation of the new hybrids was a short questionnaire that could be filled in by participating farmers themselves with the help of ...

Comparing Maize Paleoproduction Models with Experimental Data

To date, we only have one season of data from the MCG, limiting its utility for calibrating paleoproduction models. Along with adding gardens in ...

The Grower's Guide to Conducting On-farm Variety Trials

The authors of this guide hope it will serve as a useful tool for farmers, as well as for research, extension and non-profit programs looking to train farmers ...

Final report

Trials on maize and wheat populations in Germany ... the field inspections at the participating breeder's trial sites to assess and define methods.

Evaluation of the yield performance of maize cultivars (Zea mays L ...

The superior performance of these new maize hybrids evaluated under researcher-managed on-station conditions needs to be verified under on-farm smallholder ...

Two decades of harnessing standing genetic variation for ...

We conclude that plant breeders have the tools to increase both ra(MET) and ra(MET,TPE). Considering the sustained creation of drought-tolerant maize, >150 ...

NC1210: Frontiers in On-Farm Experimentation - NIMSS

... trials in crops from different regions: maize, soybeans, white winter ... “Enhanced Farm Research Analyst: Tools for on-Farm Crop Production Research.

How to best integrate legumes in maize production systems

... participatory modelling sessions using a spatial model and a 'serious game'- an interactive tool including options such as fertilization ...