Participatory evaluation of improved grasses and forage legumes for smallholder livestock production in Central America
Feeding systems with forage legumes to intensify dairy production in Latin America and the Caribbean: a project executed...
Feeding systems with legumes to intensify dairy farms: a project executed by the Tropileche Consortium
Sistemas de alimentación con leguminosas para intensificar fincas lecheras: un proyecto ejecutado por el Consorcio Tropi...
Promoting intake of Cratylia argentea as a dry season supplement for cattle grazing Hyparrhenia rufa in the subhumid tro...
Cratylia argentea, a drought tolerant shrub, is known to produce significant amounts of fodder during the dry season but little is known of its nutritive value for feeding animals. Two studies of quality and intake of Cratylia argentea, as an arboreal protein supplement for crossbred dual purpose cattle grazing Hyparrenhia rufa in the dry season, w...
Relacion suelo/planta y reciclaje de nutrientes
Informe del Departamento de Semillas, Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia, Direccion General de Investigacion y Extens...
Se mencionan los objetivos generales y especificos del Departamento de Semillas del Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganaderia de Costa Rica y se informan las actividades en marcha (multiplicacion de semilla, modo operativo, campos establecidos y produccion lograda durante el periodo 1987-90), los logros principales, las limitaciones y las perspectivas ...
Desarrollo del suministro de semillas de especies forrajeras tropicales
Se plantea la importancia de crear programas para el suministro de semillas en Costa Rica. Se indican su organizacion, requisitos, sistemas (tradicional, convencional y no convencional o inmediato) para su buen desarrollo. Se mencionan las actividades, la organizacion y evolucion del programa de semillas, la elaboracion de un proyecto integral de p...
Plant-parasitic nematodes associated with tropical pastures in Colombia
A survey of three regions of Colombia revealed a total of 31 species of plant-parasitic nematodes associated with tropical pasture legumes and grasses. Seventeen of these nematode species had not been recorded previously in Colombia. There also are 120 newly reported associations of plant-parasitic nematodes on tropical pasture legumes and grasses....
Agronomia Centroamerica y el Caribe
