Toledo Rural Development Project - Leader: C.B. Sykes [ongoing research]
1982
Anon.
A project concerned with research relevant to the social, economic and environmental conditions of the Toledo District Research interests include 1. Rice, maize, sorghum and pulse trials carried out under milpa conditions (zero tillage rainfed upland) and comparison with mechanical cultivation. 2. Socio-economic studies of the organization of the rural communities involved and the likely effects of change, and analysis of scarce resources in the farming systems. 3. Agricultural engineering trials such as alternative technologies for bush clearing tillage techniques suitable for lowland clay soils, medium scale mechanical harvesting of rice, and evaluation of the Groom System a no-till cropping system based on mulching and mechanization
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