Secretary for Lands, Agriculture, Water and Rural Resettlement Dr John Basera yesterday said targets of 1,5 million hectares had been set for planting with an average of 2,4 tonnes per hectare for the expected yield. For traditional grains, targets of 750 000 tonnes of sorghum, 200 000 tonne...
SECONDLY, WHAT COULD BE THE EXPECTED YIELD PER ANNUAL PER HECTARE FOR A OIL PALM PLANTATION Selemani Zumo said on March 16, 2012 It is the first time to me to look at this website about maize an other crops plantation. I have started the farm with almost 2 hectors, my interest is ...
Factors to be considered when assessing biofortification as a strategy for eradicating vitamin A deficiency in developing countries include yield per hectare, carotenoid losses during storage, carotenoid losses during processing, consumer acceptability and bioavailability (Nkhata et al., 2020). Wheat: ...
At harvest, data related to cob length (cm), number of rows per cob, grain weight (g) per cob and 1,000 kernels weight were taken from five cobs randomly from three middle rows. Yield was estimated in tons/hectare based on the plot weight of grain adjusted to a moisture content (...
sunflower andmaize varieties.For both maize varieties yield per plant decreased in relationto density, being lowest in the pure-stand crop. This beaviour was partiallytrue for sunflower. The intercropping 75:25 maize-sunflower ratio showed thehighest seed yield per hectare (5195 kg ha-1) and...
Accordingly, countries with high yield of maize (e.g., Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Spain and Chile) and wheat (e.g., Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, UK and Germany) had lower emission intensity compared to other countries (e.g., Botswana, Zimbabwe, Panama, and Costa Rica for maize and...
Nevertheless, the total maize yield is expected to increase under all four RCP scenarios due to the promotion of per hectare maize yield. the scenarios, RCP4.5 is the most beneficial to maize production, with a doubled total yield in 2050. Notably, the yield gap between different counties ...
In a South African scenario, at a maize grain price of 270 USD per metric ton, the yield gain would equate to 203 USD per hectare. At an average cost of, for example, 25 USD/ha for a single insecticide application by means of a tractor-mounted sprayer, the input costs of applying ...
Figure 4. Plots the census of food consumption and growth in KSA, (a) Graphs represent annual consumption in thousands of tonnes, (b) Mass of metric tonnes per area of one hectare. From the above figure, it can see that the maize crop has a significant impact on the economy of the ...
At planting, each hill received three seeds which were later thinned to two plants for a final density of 53,330 plants per hectare. Split fertilization, weed and pest control were done on each plot as described in Mafouasson et al. [4]. 2.5. Data Collection Data for grain yield was ...