Economic and Technical Aspects of Fertilizer Production and Use in West Africa
Author: Tom Zalla
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 154
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Author: Tom Zalla
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Published: 1977
Total Pages: 154
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Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 162
ISBN-13: 0821368818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe good practice guidelines - which form the basis of an interactive policymaker's tool kit included on a CD accompanying the book - relate not only to the more focused problem of encouraging increased fertilizer use by farmers, but also to the broader challenge of creating the type of enabling environment that is needed to support the emergence of efficient, dynamic and commercially viable fertilizer marketing systems."--Jacket.
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Published: 1982
Total Pages: 426
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Published: 1961
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Uzo M. Mokwunye
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9400943989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFood security, one of the basic human rights, seems to be ever eluding the people of sub-Saharan Africa. With each occurrence of crop failure, agriculturalists around the world reawaken to the challenge of ensuring sta ble, adequate food production in the tropical African environments. The International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), with its mandate of alleviating food shortages through judicial use of fertilizers, formulated a program to study fertilizer use strategies for sub-Saharan Africa. With gener ous financial assistance from the International Fund for Agricultural Devel opment (IFAD), IFDC, in collaboration with the International Crop Re search Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture (IIT A), initiated a research project aimed at assessing means to remedy soil nutrient deficiencies that constrain food production in the humid, subhumid, and semiarid tropics of Africa. The results of this project were summarized during a workshop held in Togo, March 25-28, 1985; the proceedings of that meetings are found in this vol ume. The project established collaboration with numerous national programs that were responsible for much of the data collection. The data presented in Chapters 6 and 9 include much of this information. We wish to acknowledge the contribution of the individual scientists, J.T. Ambe, F. Ganry, M. Gaoh, M. Issaka, J. Kiazolu, J. Kikafunde-Twine, K. Kpomblekou, F. Lompo, H.
Author: A. Uzo Mokwunye
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9401132240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTropical Africa escaped from the glaciers that covered the temperate parts of the world during the Ice Age. The legacy is that most of the parent materials of the soils of tropical Africa are old, highly weathered and devoid of bases and phosphate-bearing minerals. Traditional farming systems which were relatively stable and sustainable relied on long fallow periods after one to two years of cropping to maintain the productive capacity of the soils. In recent times and especially in densely populated areas, a sizeable class of 'landless' farmers have begun to cultivate marginal lands or to invade the 'forest reserves' thereby exacerbating the problems of land and environ mental degradation. of soil fertility that will facilitate the production of adequate quantities of the principle Maintaining a level staples has become a major challenge to agricultural scientists in tropical Africa. To increase the nutrient supplying power of soils requires the inputs of fertilizers. These can be organic or inorganic. The efficiency with which these externally supplied inputs can increase agricultural production and reduce soil and environmental deterioration is dependent on the ability of scientists to determine the right types and quantities of the products to apply to each soil, crop and cropping system as well as the ability of farmers to acquire requisite farm manage ment skills.
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 338
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Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780896290112
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch report on investment requirements for accelerating food production to meet food requirements of thirty-six low income, food deficient developing countries - discusses trends since 1975 and projections to 1990 as well as food policy implications, analyses the inputs required (e.g. Irrigation, fertilizers, research, etc.), and considers technological change and choice of technology. Bibliography pp. 170 to 178, graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 1428909788
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