Egharevba, P.N. (1978) A review of millet work at the Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru.Samaru miscellaneous paper 77. Working Paper. Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru,Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.
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Millet, an important food item, is second only to sorghum as a staple food in the savanna areas of Nigeria. Over 40 per cent of the annual land sown with cereals in the savanna area is devoted to millet. It is grown mainly in mixture with sorghum except in the drier areas of the Sudan savanna where it is grown as a sole crop. Because of the importance of millet in the diets of the people of the savanna region, it is accorded a place of high priority in the research programme of the Institute. The general objectives of millet research in the Institute for Agricultural Research are to improve the yield of the local varieties through population improvement, to develop new composites that are high yielding and can adapt to the different ecological zones and to evolve ....................
| Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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| Author Affiliation: | Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Ahmadu Bello University, PMB 1044 Zaria, Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Plant Production Crop Improvement |
| Divisions: | Millet |
| Depositing User: | Library ICRISAT-InfoSAT |
| Date Deposited: | 29 Mar 2012 04:04 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Mar 2012 04:04 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/4289 |
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