Kassam, A.H. and Dagg, M. and Kowal, J.H. and Khadr, F.H. (1976) Improving food crop production in the Sudan savanna zone of northern. Outlook on Agriculture, 8 (6). pp. 341-347.
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Abstract
Methods of increasing food crop yields and enhancing soil fertility in the area are reviewed. Particular reference is made to matching crop requirements with rainfall, selecting crop cultivars which mature before the end of the effective wet season, controlling pests of sorghum, millet, groundnuts and cowpeas, controlling the parasitic weed Striga, which can cause serious damage to sorghum, millet and maize, and improving technology and the marketing system
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Author Affiliation: | Institute for Agricultural Research, Samaru, Zaria, Nigeria |
| Subjects: | Plant Production Plant Production > Farming Systems |
| Divisions: | Groundnut Maize Millet Sorghum |
| Depositing User: | Ms K Syamalamba |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jul 2012 06:00 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Jul 2012 06:01 |
| URI: | http://eprints.icrisat.ac.in/id/eprint/6735 |
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