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Farmers field school (FFS) and on-farm demonstrations for pilot farmers

FFS is established in Oman to demonstrate cultural practices of cultivating Buffel grass and promote its adoption as a forage cultivar in place of Rhodes grass. Similar project (also in Oman) is a FFS of spineless cactus, with the objectives to spread the fodder cactus accession pads to different AP...

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Main Author: Gonsalves, Julian Francis
Format: Case Study
Language:Inglés
Published: CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security 2013
Subjects:
farmer field schools
on-farm research
agriculture
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/36076
Summary:FFS is established in Oman to demonstrate cultural practices of cultivating Buffel grass and promote its adoption as a forage cultivar in place of Rhodes grass. Similar project (also in Oman) is a FFS of spineless cactus, with the objectives to spread the fodder cactus accession pads to different APRP countries and to encourage farmers to come forward to grow fodder cactus in their sub-marginal fields.

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