Training video on the integration of the leguminous Mucuna cover crop in coffee and banana systems in central Africa.
Mucuna pruriens is a shade- and drought-tolerant, fast-growing nitrogen-fixing cover crop that has been shown to contribute to increased farm productivity, restoration of degraded lands through improving soil physical, chemical, and biological properties and carbon sequestration in banana and coffee...
| Main Authors: | , , , , |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Swahili |
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2024
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159430 |
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