Rainfed Rice Production in Western Kenya
Author : Noah W. O. Wawire
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Rainfed lowland rice
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Author : Noah W. O. Wawire
Publisher :
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 34,14 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Rainfed lowland rice
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Author : Noah W. O. Wawire
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Page : 222 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : J. R. Rachilo
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Page : 22 pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Rice
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Author : Al-Imran Dianga
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,76 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic books
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Kenya experiences huge production-consumption deficit in relation to rice. This is due to changing eating habits that has adopted more rice in the menu and rapidly rising population. Rice production has remained low being unable to meet consumption. Rice ecosystems in Kenya include irrigated, rainfed lowland and rainfed upland. Irrigated ecosystem has over the years been given more emphasis despite rainfed rice farming having double the potential over irrigation system. Ecologically rice grows well in abundant water supply, warm to high temperatures and in Clay sandy to loamy soils with slightly acidic to neutral pH. Rice varieties grown in Kenya are mainly traditional, introduced improved, hybrids and landraces. Rainfed rice farming faces constraint,Äôs key among them being; drought and erratic rainfall, weeds, pest and diseases, cheap imports, land ownership and poor infrastructure. Mitigating against drought and erratic rainfall, improving farm inputs and equipment, increasing germplasm production and distribution, credit support and marketing to farmers, improving farmers skills through technological transfers and infrastructural development are prospects that if adopted could increase rainfed rice productivity. More attention towards improvement of rainfed rice farming could greatly contribute to bridging the production-consumption deficit that is bridged through imports. It is with this, that this review updates our understanding of rain fed rice farming in Kenya in terms of ecological conditions, ecological systems, varieties, constraints and prospects.
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Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 13,59 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Rice
ISBN : 9711041219
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1996-07
Category : Agriculture
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Page : 166 pages
File Size : 44,9 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Food supply
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Author : Min Huang
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 26,68 MB
Release : 2022-01-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1839695994
This book describes some recent advances in rice research in terms of crop breeding and improvement (Section 1), crop production and protection (Section 2), and crop quality control and food processing (Section 3). It contains fourteen chapters that cover such topics as two-line rice breeding in India, the different aspects of aromatic rice, bacterial diseases of rice, quality control and breeding strategies, and much more. This volume is a useful reference for professionals and graduate students working in all areas of rice science and technology.
Author : Harald Lang
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Page : 236 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Rice
ISBN : 9783881561358
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 1998-11-25
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The official records of the proceedings of the Legislative Council of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya, the House of Representatives of the Government of Kenya and the National Assembly of the Republic of Kenya.