 | Better Farming Series 15 - Cereals (FAO - INADES, 1977, 51 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | Preface |
|  | What are food crops? |
| | (introduction...) |
| | What cereals are grown in Africa? |
| | Why cereals are grown |
| | Why we should produce and sell more cereals |
| | Traditional cereal growing |
| | Growing cereals in the modern way |
| | Clearing land and grubbing out trees |
| | Conserving and improving the soil |
| | Applying manure and fertilizers |
| | Preparing the soil |
| | Selecting and preparing seeds |
| | Sowing in rows |
| | How to look after cereals |
| | Harvesting |
| | Selling part of the harvest |
| | Sorghum and millet |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Sorghum |
| | Millet |
| | (introduction...) |
| | How to grow sorghum and millet |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Growing sorghum in the dry season |
| | Sorghum for animal feeding |
| | Maize |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Traditional maize growing |
| | How to increase maize yields |
| | Other cereals |
| | Fonio |
| | Finger millet |
| | Wheat |
| | Suggested question paper |
(introduction...)
To live, man must eat.
· At one time men gathered and picked the fruits, leaves, and seeds of trees and plants. To get meat and fish they hunted and fished.
· But nowadays hunting, fishing and food gathering are no longer enough to feed all the people. Crops have to be grown to provide food. These crops are called food crops.
· Nowadays the inhabitants of African villages grow many food crops.
They grow mainly:
· cereals such as sorghum,
millet, rice, maize;
· tubers such as yams,
sweet potatoes, cocoyams, tania, potatoes;
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root crops such as cassava;
· legumes such as
cow peas, Bambarra groundnuts, groundnuts and soybeans;
· bananas and plantains.
In this book/et we study only cereals.
We shall deal with other food crops in other booklets.
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