Increasing agricultural productivity and efficiency in production continues to be the cornerstone of most farming systems. Most policy makers rely on such studies as it offers the pathway to agricultural growth and economic development. This research is aimed to evaluate the technical efficiency of maiz...
This study documents soil properties, production practices, and maize yields of four traditional runoff fields of Zuni farmers. All fields received at least two runoff events that deposited sediments and organic debris during the season. Fields exhibited adequate macronutrients for low-density crop ...
Maize lethal necrosis (MLN), a complex viral disease, emerged as a serious threat to maize production and the livelihoods of smallholders in eastern Africa since 2011, primarily due to the introduction of maize chlorotic mottle virus (MCMV). The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (...
Maize plays an important role in China' s agricultural production and national economy. Clarifying the spatial and temporal characteristics of maize production in China is helpful to ensure the sustainable and stable supply of maize. Based on the empirical mode decomposition method,etc,this paper syst...
Because of the structure of the survey applied we could only calculate yield values for the different crops reported from 357 plots (i.e. crop production in one section of the survey and area and cropping patterns of each plot in another section, therefore discarding for the analysis all farme...
Biomass production and carbon stocks in poplar-crop intercropping systems: a case study in northwestern Jiangsu, China The importance of agroforestry systems in CO 2 mitigation has become recognized worldwide in recent years. However, little is known about carbon (C) seque... S Fang,H Li,Q ...
For maize silage containing about 20% dry matter, the most suitable silage: grain ratio is 2:1 for daily milk production over 20 kg, and 3:1 for the rest of the lactation and dry period. Dehydrated whole maize pellets, given in combination with fresh alfalfa to dairy cows, promoted good...
China is the world’s second-largest maize producer, contributing 23% to global production and playing a crucial role in stabilizing the global maize supply. Therefore, accurately mapping the maize distribution in China is of great significance for regional and global food security and international ...
The cultivation of Maize and Guinea corn in the northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria is faced with lots of Crop protection problems which hinder full scale production of these crops in that ecological zone. The problems range from biotic factors like vertebrate and invertebrate pests, disease pathogens...
production2,3,4. Heilongjiang Province has the largest cultivated land area in China and is one of the three famous black lands. The three varieties of maize, that is, Jinyu 88 (JY88), Huanong 18 (HN18), and Demeiya 9 (DM9), are the main varieties of maize planted in Heilongjiang ...