Market access by smallholder farmers in Malawi: implications for technology adoption, agricultural productivity and crop income In Malawi, maize is the major crop and food staple. Given limited off-farm employment opportunities, much-needed increases in household income for improvin... M Zeller,A ...
(redirected fromStaple food) Also found in:Dictionary,Thesaurus,Medical,Acronyms,Encyclopedia,Wikipedia. STAPLE, intern. law. The right of staple as exercised by a people upon foreign merchants, is defined to be, that they may not allow them to set their merchandises and wares to sale but in...
The study consists of a two-stage analysis in the first stage, the total factor productivity (TFP) variable is obtained by using the parametric Tornqvisit-Theil index output-input-aggregation method separately for each crop; rice, maize, and wheat. After that, the unit root test is used to...
Staple food crops, in particular cereal grains, are poor sources of key mineral nutrients. As a result, the world’s poorest people, generally those subsisting on a monotonous cereal diet, are also those most vulnerable to mineral deficiency diseases. Various strategies have been proposed to deal...
Catalogue of Wheat Germplasm : Agro-Morphological Characterizaon and Preliminary Evaluation of Wheat Germplasm Conserved in the Indian National Gene Bank Wheat is the world's most widely cultivated food crop. In India, it is the second most important staple food crop after rice with an area of ...
Google Share on Facebook staple (redirected fromStaple food) Dictionary Thesaurus Legal Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia staple [sta´p'l] a stainless steel wound closure device, usually removed 7 to 10 days after the surgical procedure. Removing staples. From Lammon et al., 1995. ...
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) is an important food and cash crop. It is among the 10 strategic staple crops for food and income security in Eastern and Centra... W Kaguongo,I Rwomushana,I Kashaija,... - Potato and sweetpotato in Africa: transforming the value chains for food and nutrition...
(maize, wheat and rice) on a per-calorie basis, but substantial regional variation exists for each crop. Integrating potato as a staple in China to meet increases in food demand and close the yield gap has the potential to reduce the total carbon–land–water impacts of staple crops by 17...
Nature Food3,47–56 (2022)Cite this article 3914Accesses 544Altmetric Metrics Abstract East Asia is a hotspot of surface ozone (O3) pollution, which hinders crop growth and reduces yields. Here, we assess the relative yield loss in rice, wheat and maize due to O3by combining O3elevation exp...
To address the occurrence of micronutrient deficiencies, plant scientists are concentrating to formulate methods to apply fertilizers and/or use plant breeding strategies to increase bioavailability of mineral elements in edible portion of crop plants. These approaches are termed “agronomic” (fertilizer ...