Many African countries, including Mali, depend on the production of a single or limited range crops for national food security. In this heavy reliance basic commodities staple crops, even just one, exacerbates multiple risks to agricultural production, rural livelihoods, and nutrition. With in mind, smart campaign was initiated strengthen resilience nutritional situation households peasant comm...

Climate change is severely disrupting ecosystem services and crop productivity, resulting in lower growth yields. Studies have emphasized the importance of assessing conservation practices through modelling to improve cropland productivity. There a lack accurate information performance as well data for improved modelling. No-tillage sorghum–cowpea intercrop experiments were established assess p...

The objective of the experiment was to develop cropping sequence modules for round year green fodder production feeding 50 dairy cattle under irrigated conditions in North-West Himalayan region. Various were initiated at Research Farm Instructional Livestock Centre, R.S. Pura, FVSc. & A.H., SKUAST-Jammu during 2016 an area 2.5 ha. experimental data collected after fully establishing unit 20...

Knowing the spatial and temporal suitability of neglected underutilised crop species (NUS) is important for fitting them into marginal production areas cropping systems under climate change. The current study used change scenarios to map future distribution selected NUS, namely, sorghum ( Sorghum bicolor ), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata amaranth Amaranthus ) taro Colocasia esculenta in KwaZulu-Nata...

Abstract Addressing the challenge of food and nutrition insecurity in Sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA) will require innovative agriculture production systems that support multiple objectives. In recent years, several high‐yielding, nutrient‐dense varieties cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp), pearl millet Pennisetum glaucum R. Br.), sorghum Sorghum bicolor Moench) have been developed purposely as dua...

Several cover crops with potential for use in tropical and subtropical regions were assessed for susceptibility to three common species of root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne arenaria, M. incognita, and M. javanica. Crops were selected based on potential use as organic amendments in anaerobic soil disinfestation (ASD) applications. Nematode juvenile (J2) numbers in soil and roots, egg production, a...

We used an ongoing long-term field trial established since 1960 in Burkina Faso, to study the microbial properties of a Ferric Lixisol under various crop management and fertilization regimes. Microbial respiration rate, biomass carbon (MBC) and soil bacteria’s number were assessed samples taken at 0 - 20 cm depth. The continuous cropping sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) (S/S) rotation between...

1 A productivity growth rates in Africa have lagged behind the rest of the world due to lack of investment in agriculture in general and in agricultural research and development (R&D) in particular.1,2 Low productivity has especially affected basic African food crops such as sorghum, millet, cassava, sweet potato and cowpea, which are barely traded inter nationally and which benefited very litt...

This study assessed the effects of total ochratoxins on nutritional composition and functional properties grain flours. The grains cowpea, sorghum, maize, groundnut, rice, millet, acha were milled. proximate composition, properties, as well Total Ochratoxin levels, determined. Ochratoxins evaluated. levels in flours ranged from 0.09 to 54.41 μg/kg not seen some rice samples. Most found beyond W...

In the tropics, cowpea is often intercropped with maize. Little is known about the effect of the intercropped maize on N2-fixation by cowpea or how intercropping affects nitrogen fertilizer use efficiency or soil N-uptake of both crops. Cowpea and maize were grown as a monocrop at row spacings of 40, 50, 60, 80, and 120 cm and intercropped at row spacing of 40, 50, and 60 cm. Plots were fertili...