Rainfall seasonality and timing are key climatic features affecting crop yield in rainfed agriculture (RFA). We evaluated the dynamics of temporal rainfall attributes – strength seasonality, date onset, cessation, duration rainy season over RFA areas across Ethiopia for period 1981-2010 explored their impacts on cereal production (including maize, teff, sorghum, wheat, barley, millet, oats rice...

Cereal rye (Secale cereale L.) is an important cover crop species in the United States. It has potential to minimize soil erosion, reduce nutrient leaching, decrease fertilizer inputs, improve water after termination, and enhance organic matter. also efficient tool for weed suppression (up 100% under ideal conditions), which achieved through several mechanisms. Reported biomass production estim...

After a remarkable 86% increase in cereal production from 1980 to 2005, recent crop yield growth in China has been slow. County level crop production data between 1980 and 2010 from eastern and middle China were used to analyze spatial and temporal patterns of rice, wheat and maize yield in five major farming systems that include around 90% of China's cereal production. Site-specific yield tren...

Pearl millet [Pennisetum glaucum (L.) R. Br.] is a warm-season, C4 annual cereal primarily grown in Africa and India for food and fodder. It is also grown in the United States, mainly as a forage crop on a limited area. It is the sixth most important cereal crop in the world. More than 90 million people around the world rely on it as a food grain. It is known for its drought and heat tolerance ...