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03079nam a22004937a 4500 |
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G80771 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
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MX-TxCIM |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
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20211006084757.0 |
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
970-648-120-6 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
MX-TxCIM |
| 072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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| Subject category code |
E16 |
| 072 #0 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE |
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| Subject category code |
H60 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
338.16 |
| Item number |
FRI |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Gatsi, T. |
| Affiliation |
Integrated Approaches to Higher Maize Productivity in the New Millennium |
| 110 0# - 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) Kenya |
| 111 2# - MAIN ENTRY--MEETING NAME |
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| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element |
7. Proceedings of the Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Maize Conference |
| Location of meeting |
Nairobi (Kenya) |
| Date of meeting |
5-11 Feb 2002 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Economics of integrated tillage and weed control parctices on maize-based systems in the smallholder farming sector of Zimbabwe |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Nairobi (Kenya) |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
KARI|CIMMYT : |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2002 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
p. 491-494 |
| 340 ## - PHYSICAL MEDIUM |
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| Material base and configuration |
Printed |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe rely heavily on draught animal power and ox-drawn mouldboard ploughs for primary tillage and crop establishment. Reduced tillage studies in the past have proved that it is a viable option, which ensures early planting and has less draught animal power demand. Work conducted in two communal areas of Zimbabwe (Chihota, and Tsholotsho) showed that labour can be significantly reduced by the use of half the recommended rates of atrazine (herbicide used in maize) either banded (applying herbicide close to the maize) or full cover. The objective of this paper is to analyse the profitability of tillage and weed control practices in smallholder farms. Using two seasons' data, gross margin analysis showed there were higher returns to cash expenditure ranging from 1.08 to about 2.65 per dollar invested for the reduced tillage and banded atrazine treatments in the three sites. In Tsholotsho, which is a drier area, reduced tillage and either mechanical or use of atrazine banded was more profitable with returns to cash expenditure of Z$2.79 and Z$ 2.65 per Z$ invested, respectively. In Chihota, a relatively wetter area, reduced tillage and banding atrazine in combination with mechanical weeding was more profitable with returns of Z$ 2.05 and Z$ 1.97, respectively. It might be worthwhile for farmers in the two areas to use reduced tillage with mechanical, atrazine or manual weeding depending on their resources. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE |
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| Language note |
English |
| 591 ## - CATALOGING NOTES |
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| Affiliation |
0410|AGRIS 0401|AL-Maize Program |
| 595 ## - COLLECTION |
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| Collection |
CIMMYT Publications Collection |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Agricultural economics |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Cropping systems |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| Source of heading or term |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1068 |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Farmers |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1654 |
| 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 |
Seed production |
| 9 (RLIN) |
1253 |
| 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 |
| 650 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Weed control |
| Miscellaneous information |
AGROVOC |
| Source of heading or term |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1308 |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Zimbabwe |
| 653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
CIMMYT |
| 653 0# - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED |
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| Uncontrolled term |
KARI |
| 650 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| 9 (RLIN) |
1832 |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Tillage |
| 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 |
Friesen, D.K.|Palmer, A.F.E. |
| Relator term |
eds. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Kanyungwe, K., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Mabasa, S., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Makanganise, A., |
| Relator term |
coaut. |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
Book |