After many decades when its cultivation was prohibited, hemp is regaining position as one of the most versatile cultivated crops. Multiplication monoecious varieties requires manual male plants rouging to keep a high share in population. It forces relatively small multiplication fields usually oscillating around 5 ha, where use big harvesting machines not economically feasible. The B-800 mower ...

Finger millet (Elusine coracana) accounts for 8% of the total area and 11% production worldwide. It is grown on over 4 million ha globally, mainly food purposes. Millions people in dry lands Central East Africa, South India depend finger as an important source to them (CGIAR, 2001). one most neglected underutilized crops. Additionally, crop has received limited research attention compared wheat...

this study examined suitable mechanized methods to seed rice in dry-bed conditions using dried seeds and determined the most suitable varieties for each method. the experimental design was strip-plots in a randomized complete block design with two factors (seeding methods and rice varieties) and three replications. the testing took place during 2003-2004 at the shavour agricultural research sta...