MARC details
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| fixed length control field |
03663nam a22004697a 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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| control field |
G74500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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| control field |
MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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| control field |
20211006084815.0 |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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| fixed length control field |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
92-9146-065-6 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MX-TxCIM |
| 072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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| Subject category code |
F04 |
| 072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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| Subject category code |
P35 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
633.15 |
| Item number |
EAS No. 6 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Saka, A.R. |
| Affiliation |
Maize Production Technology for the Future: Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Maize Conference, 6; Addis Ababa (Ethiopia); 21-25 Sep 1998 |
| 110 2# - MAIN ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME |
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| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Mexico DF (Mexico) |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Integrating pigeonpeas into smallholder farming systems to improve soil fertility and crop yields in Malawi |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
CIMMYT|EARO : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
1999 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
p. 218-222 |
| 340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM |
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| Material base and configuration |
Printed |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
A field experiment was conducted at forty-four smallholder farmers' fields in Malawi during the 1995/96 and 1996/97 crop growing seasons with the main objective of promoting country-wide integration of pigeonpeas into smallholder farming systems. Specifically, the study aimed at: (i) promoting crop diversification, (ii) improving soil fertility and crop yields, and (iii) evaluating other agroforestry technologies besides alley cropping. There were five treatments (or technologies): T1, strip cropping maize with pigeonpeas; T2, improved fallows using pigeonpeas; T3, intercropping maize witb pigeonpeas; T4, sole maize with an application of 30 kg N ha-1 and 15 kg P2O5 ha-1; and T5, sole maize without fertilizer application (control). These were laid out in a Randomized Complete Block Design (RCBD) in two or three replications. Pigeonpeas were well established at all the trial sites indicating that these can be grown at many sites in Malawi. An application of N and P significantly (P=O.O5) increased maize grain yields at all the trial sites, indicating that low soil fertility is an important factor constraining maize grain yields in Malawi. The performance of the technologies across sites was as follows: T4>T2>T1>T5>T3; indicating that fertilised monocrop maize (T4) had the greatest potential to increase crop yields relative to the control (T5), followed by the one-year improved fallow (T2), and strip cropping (T1). The performance of the technologies varied from farmer to farmer, and from site to site. These variations were attributed to: (i) low inherent soil fertility, (ii) high and/or low rainfall that was poorly distributed, and (iii) farmer differences in carrying out crop husbandry practices. Our findings suggest that future research should focus on testing the improved fallow technology in several agro-ecological zones, soil types and climatic conditions, and testing other low-input soll- fertility-improving technologies where organic manures are augmented with inorganic fertilizers. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES |
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| Affiliation |
0103|AL-Maize Program|AGRIS 0102|AJ |
| 595 ## - COLLECTION |
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| Collection |
CIMMYT Publications Collection |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Crop management |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| Source of heading or term |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1061 |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Maize |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| Source of heading or term |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1173 |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Malawi |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Nitrogen fixation |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Pigeon peas |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Small farms |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| Source of heading or term |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1260 |
| 653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
CIMMYT |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1248 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Rotational - |
| Miscellaneous information |
Término tomado de AGROVOC |
| Form subdivision |
Término tomado de AGROVOC |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1314 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Zea mays |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1952 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Soil fertility |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1109 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Farming systems |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Allison, A. G., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Bunderson, W.T., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1691 |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
CIMMYT |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kamangira, J. B., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kumwenda, J.D.T., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Conference proceedings |