Breaking the stranglehold of striga
Dipping maize seeds in a very small amount of herbicide blocks the ability of Striga hermonthica to parasitize and kill crops. Experiments over the past two years m Kenya have shown that dipping seeds in the herbicide imazapyr can triple the yield...
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| Language: | Inglés |
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
1996
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10568/47442 |
| Summary: | Dipping maize seeds in a very small amount of herbicide blocks the ability of Striga hermonthica to parasitize and kill crops. Experiments over the past two years m Kenya have shown that dipping seeds in the herbicide imazapyr can triple the yield... |
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