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On-Farm Experiments with Sorghum to Assess the Acceptability of New Varieties and Herbicide Treatments

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2008

Siegfried K. Debrah ,
Diakalia Sanogo  and
Fred O. Boadu
Siegfried K. Debrah
Affiliation:
ICRISAT Western and Central Regional Program, BP 320, Bamako, Mali, West Africa andTexas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Diakalia Sanogo
Affiliation:
ICRISAT Western and Central Regional Program, BP 320, Bamako, Mali, West Africa andTexas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
Fred O. Boadu
Affiliation:
Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA
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Summary

On-farm experiments were used for assessing the processing and food value of four promising sorghum cultivars and the willingness of farmers to pay for the herbicide 2,4-D for controlling the parasitic weed Striga hermonlhica in coarse grains. The active participation of farmers in these experiments was useful in determining the conditions under which the improved sorghum cultivars and the herbicide would be most likely to he adopted by smallholder farmers in southern Mali.

Type
Research Article
Information
Experimental Agriculture , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , April 1996 , pp. 219 - 223
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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