Carney, J. (1990) Triticale production in the central Mexican highlands : smallholders' experiences and lessons for research. Working Paper. CIMMYT, Mexico.
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Abstract
Triticale, a cross between wheat and rye, yields more than its parent species under two kinds of marginal conditions: highland areas where acid soils and foliar diseases are a problem and semiarid areas where drought stress frequently affects crop production. This paper examines triticale utilization patterns among smallholders in one tropical montane region, the central Mexican highlands, where farmers have cultivated triticale for over 20 years. In the central Mexican highlands, smallholders' interest in triticale originally derived from their experiments with the crop as animal forage and feed, and only briefly shifted to triticale's potential as a food crop when markets appeared to be developing. Future research to meet smallholders' needs for forage and feed triticales may necessitate a reconsideration of the current emphasis on complete triticale types. The diversity of microenvironments sown to triticale in the central Mexican highlands, and the decades-long experience of smallholders in growing the crop and collaborating with researchers from several disciplines, will continue to make the area a valuable location for work on forage and feed triticale
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | wheat, Rye, Foliar diseases, Triticale, Forage, RP6836 |
| Author Affiliation: | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Subjects: | Plant Protection Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | Other Crops |
| Depositing User: | Ms Ishrath Durafsha |
| Date Deposited: | 19 May 2014 07:43 |
| Last Modified: | 19 May 2014 07:43 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/12965 |
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