TY  - PRO
AU  - Mooleki,P.
AU  - Siwale,J.
ED  - Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT), Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
TI  - The impact of crop rotation on the grain yield of rainfed wheat in Northern Zambia
SN  - 92-9146-058-3
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Addis Ababa (Ethiopia)
PB  - CIMMYT
KW  - Crop management
KW  - AGROVOC
KW  - Cropping systems
KW  - Fertilizers
KW  - Rainfed farming
KW  - Yield increases
KW  - Zambia
KW  - Triticum
KW  - Rotational -
KW  - Término tomado de AGROVOC
KW  - CIMMYT
N2  - Wheat is a new crop in Northern Zambia where it was only introduced in the late 70's as a rainfed crop. Crop rotation trials have been conducted to establish a crop rotation system in which wheat would fit. In this poster, results of a six-year crop rotation trial are reported. Six crop rotation systems were tested. Wheat, soybeans, common beans, groundnuts, maize and maize/common beans inter-crop were included in the rotations. Wheat has consistently given higher grain yields when it follows legumes, especially soybeans or groundnuts, rather than cereals. Wheat following common beans has always yielded less than wheat following soybeans or groundnuts. When recommending a crop rotation system to a farm family in Northern Zambia, it is necessary to involve women family members as they are more involved in the choice and production of food legume crops than men are
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