Tag: ethiopia

POLICY BRIEF: Conservation Agriculture-based Sustainable Intensification: Minimal tillage saves resources, improves yields on Ethiopian farms

Written by rllopez on February 28, 2019. Posted in New Resources.

http://simlesa.cimmyt.org/wp-content/uploads/mintill-ETH.pdf

POLICY BRIEF: Maintaining crop residues in the field saves soils and improves crop yields

Written by rllopez on February 28, 2019. Posted in New Resources.

http://simlesa.cimmyt.org/wp-content/uploads/RESIDUE-ETH.pdf

POLICY BRIEF: From trial plots to mega fields: How Conservation Agriculture-based Sustainable Intensification can become the new normal in Ethiopia

Written by rllopez on February 28, 2019. Posted in New Resources.

http://simlesa.cimmyt.org/wp-content/uploads/SCALING-ETH.pdf

MEDIA REPORT: Conservation Agriculture Increasing Yields, Incomes.

Written by rllopez on February 4, 2019. Posted in New Resources.

https://www.scidev.net/sub-saharan-africa/farming/feature/conservation-agriculture-increasing-yields-incomes.html

-SCIDEVNET

With traditional farming practices, Makhanu says, his harvest was limited to six bags of maize, and less than one bag of beans. The CA-based techniques have increased his harvest to 30-35 bags of maize per acre, and he predicts yields increase as crop residues improves the organic matter in the soil..

Conservation agriculture increasing yields, incomes

Written by rllopez on January 25, 2019.

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