Intensifying cropping systems through doubled-up legumes in Eastern Zambia

The importance of legumes in cereal cropping systems

CROPPING SYSTEMS Evaluation of GPFARM for Dryland Cropping Systems in Eastern Colorado

than 90% were interested in using farm management decision support software (Frasier et al., 1997). The GPFARM is an ARS decision support system for strategic (longsame survey also showed that 57% of 219 producer term) planning. This study evaluated its performance for comparing alternative dryland no-till cropping systems and established limits of respondents were interested in a farm manageme...

Trade-Offs between Economic and Environmental Impacts of Introducing Legumes into Cropping Systems

Europe's agriculture is highly specialized, dependent on external inputs and responsible for negative environmental impacts. Legume crops are grown on less than 2% of the arable land and more than 70% of the demand for protein feed supplement is imported from overseas. The integration of legumes into cropping systems has the potential to contribute to the transition to a more resource-efficient...

Methane efflux from rice-based cropping systems under humid tropical conditions of eastern India

Tropical rice paddy is considered to be one of the major anthropogenic source of atmospheric methane (CH4). In a field study spread over the dry and wet seasons of a calendar year, the CH4 emission from upland (oilseed and pulse) crops in the dry season and a succeeding lowland rice (Oryza sativa L.) crop in the wet season was compared with rice–rice rotation in both seasons under flooded condi...

Molecular epidemiological investigations of plague in Eastern Province of Zambia

BACKGROUND Plague is a flea-borne zoonotic and invasive disease caused by a gram negative coccobacillus bacterium called Yersinia pestis. Plague has caused three devastating pandemics globally namely: the Justinian, Black Death and Oriental plague. The disease in the Eastern Province of Zambia has been reported in Nyimba and Sinda Districts in the past 15 years. The aim of this study was to inv...