Crop Adaptation and Improvement for Drought-Prone Environments
About This Book
1 Production and Consumption Trends of Dryland Staples in CORAF Nations Abstract Sorghum, pearl millet, fonio, cowpeas, groundnuts, and livestock form the backbone of the agricultural economy in semiarid regions of West and Central Africa. This chapter presents descriptive statistics on the production, consumption, and trade of five commodities that are the mandate crops of the CORAF regional research center of excellence, Centre d’étude régional pour l’amélioration de l’adaptation à la sécheres
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| Subject | N/A |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 8 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution Share-Alike - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Production and Consumption Trends of Dryland Staples in CORAF Nations
- 8 Agro-physiological Responses of 10 West Africa Sorghum Varieties to Early Wate
- 9 Toward a Regional Field Phenotyping Network in West Africa
- 12 Designing Dual-purpose Sorghum Ideotypes for High Grain and Biomass Yields Su
- 14 Management of Cowpea [Vigna unguiculata L. (Walp)] Germplasm Diversity in Sen
- 15 From Shade to Light: Fonio, an African Orphan Crop, Towards Renewed Challenge
- 16 Past, Present, and Future of West African Sorghum Improvement: Building a Roa
- 19 Breeding for Drought Adaptation and Fresh Seed Dormancy of Groundnut in Seneg