Reducing poverty through improved Imperata control: proceedings of the second Imperata management stakeholders' conference, 14-15 September 2004, Makurdi, Benue State, NigeriaIITA |
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activities Adedzwa adoption agricultural extension agrochemical areas assessment Avav Bekwarra benefits Benue cassava chemicals Chikoye control Imperata control methods control options cost of weed cover crops CRADP crop yields Cross River density DFID Ekumtak Ellis-Jones extension agents extension system extension workers facilitate fallow farmer groups farming systems fusilade glyphosate grain yield harvest herbicide hoeweeding Ibadan identify IITA impact implementation improved weed management increased infestation inputs involved kg/ha Kogi labor lead farmers legumes livelihoods Makurdi management methods Mbube mid-season evaluation monitoring mother trial Mucuna N/ha Nigeria Obudu LGA Ogoja LGA organizations participatory research planting plots poverty problems production research and extension resource River State ADP role scaling-out season secondary farmers Silsoe Research Institute soybean speargrass control speargrass Imperata cylindrica speargrass management sprayers spraying stakeholders Striga and Imperata Table Tarhembe Tarka LGA treatment tuber tuber yield velvetbean weed control workshop zone