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Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Grain Legumes Volume 2 - Improving Cultivation of Particular Grain Legumes (Hardcover):... Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Grain Legumes Volume 2 - Improving Cultivation of Particular Grain Legumes (Hardcover)
Shoba Sivasankar, David Bergvinson, Pooran Gaur, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Steve Beebe, …
R6,272 Discovery Miles 62 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Grain legumes are characterised by their nutritional value, an ability to grow rapidly and improve soil health. This makes them a key rotation crop in promoting food security. However, yields are constrained by factors such as pests and diseases as well as vulnerability to poor soils, drought and other effects of climate change. This collection reviews the wealth of research addressing these challenges. Volume 2 assesses key research on particular types of grain legume with chapters on developing improved varieties as well as improvements in cultivation techniques. The book covers common beans, lentils, soybeans, groundnuts, cowpea, faba beans and pigeonpea. With its distinguished editorial team and international range of expert authors, this will be a standard reference for the grain legume research community and farmers of these important crops. It is accompanied by a companion volume which reviews general advances in breeding and cultivation techniques.

Critical Issues in Plant Health: 50 Years of Research in African Agriculture (Hardcover): Peter Neuenschwander, Manuele Tamo Critical Issues in Plant Health: 50 Years of Research in African Agriculture (Hardcover)
Peter Neuenschwander, Manuele Tamo
R6,666 Discovery Miles 66 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"With concerns about climate change, loss of biodiversity and the need to feed an ever-growing human population, the book provides a valuable reference on the need to develop IPM giving greater emphasis to the environment. This is necessary with the future of farming changing with new technology, including precision agriculture, digitalisation, robotics and new genetic engineering technology." International Pest Control - review by Emeritus Professor Graham Matthews, Imperial College London, UK Plant health covers topics such as the safe handling and movement of germplasm and seed, as well as the range of biotic threats faced by crops and the ways they can be managed to optimise yields and ensure safety and quality in crop production. These threats include viral, bacterial and fungal diseases as well as the impact of insect pests and weeds. This collection summarises 50 years of research on plant health by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to improve the health of crops in Africa. The first part of the book reviews general issues such as pest and disease surveillance and the range of viruses affecting key African crops. Part 2 summarises key research on improving the health of major crops such as cassava, maize, yams and cocoyams, bananas and plantains, legumes, vegetables and tree fruits. The final part of the book discusses ways of improving integrated pest management of insect pests, diseases and weeds in sub-Saharan Africa. This unique book brings together some of the world's leading experts on plant health in sub-Saharan Africa to review progress in dealing with the range of biotic threats faced by African farmers, and will be a standard reference on improving the management of pests and diseases in developing countries.

Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Grain Legumes Volume 1 - Advances in Breeding and Cultivation Techniques (Hardcover):... Achieving Sustainable Cultivation of Grain Legumes Volume 1 - Advances in Breeding and Cultivation Techniques (Hardcover)
Shoba Sivasankar, David Bergvinson, Pooran Gaur, Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Steve Beebe, …
R6,276 Discovery Miles 62 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Grain legumes are characterised by their nutritional value, an ability to grow rapidly and improve soil health by fixing nitrogen. This makes them a key rotation crop in promoting food security amongst smallholders in particular. However, yields are constrained by factors such as pests and diseases as well as vulnerability to poor soils, drought and other effects of climate change. This collection reviews the wealth of research addressing these challenges. Volume 1 focusses on breeding and cultivation. Part 1 summarises advances in understanding crop physiology and genetic diversity, and how this understanding has informed the development of new varieties. Part 2 reviews improvements in cultivation techniques to make the most of these new varieties, from variety selection and seed quality management, through pest and disease management to storage and quality assessment. With its distinguished editorial team and international range of expert authors, this will be a standard reference for the grain legume research community and farmers of these important crops as well as government and other agencies responsible for agricultural development. It is accompanied by a companion volume which reviews particular grain legumes.

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