Using farmer knowledge to combat low productive spots in an irrigated rice scheme in Burkina Faso
In the oldest sections of Burkina Faso's largest irrigation scheme in the Sourou Valley (13° 10′ N, 03° 30′W) rice (Oryza sativa L.) yields dropped from about 5 to 6 t ha−1 in the early 1990s, shortly after establishment of the scheme, to 2 to 4 t ha−1 from 1995 onwards. Farmers blamed this yield de...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Wiley
2004
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/103368 |
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