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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetImproved technology brings hope for more food production for rural population in the cold winter desert of Uzbekistan 2021
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No results found.International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas for Central Asia and the South Caucasus (ICARDA-CAC), in cooperation with FAO, conducted a Farmer Field School program in a village in Kyzylkum, which opened up access to new farming prospects for local smallholders. The publication shares a successful story of the farmer from Karakul district, Bukhara, Uzbekistan who has benefited from the improved variety of wheat seeds. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetWheat against weeds and windstorm on small farms
Weeds and windstorm - double scourge to wheat crop of the smallholders in Durmon village in the cold winter desert of Uzbekistan
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The publication explores the damage caused by both a windstorm and weeds to wheat harvest of the farmers in Durmon village in the cold winter desert of Uzbekistan. Improved variety of wheat crops has been introduced to smallholders through Farmer Field Schools, implemented jointly with the International Center for Agriculture Research in Dry Areas (ICARDA) and FAO. -
Book (stand-alone)Establishing best practices and approaches for climate-adapted and biodiversity-friendly integrated natural resource management Farmer Field Schools in cold winter deserts
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No results found.Recent population growth in Uzbekistan necessitates increase in productivity of agricultural crops extensively or intensively. This report shows how the concept of a farmer field school can help to improve the food security of small farmers and to involve uncultivated desert lands in production of food crops.By reading this report, you will find out how two farmer field schools were implemented in research sites located in Durmon and Chuya villages of Uzbekistan. The report explains that the improved wheat variety resulted in 116 to 241 percent higher grain yield than the local variety. The second major outcome specified in this report is that winter chickpea was successfully cultivated in the cold winter desert. Read this report to learn the following important impacts:-Adoption of improved wheat varieties would play an important role in improving food security of the farmers living in the cold winter desert of Uzbekistan.-Food security in the cold winter deserts can be improved by cultivating chickpea on previously uncultivated land and help ease pressure on the limited cultivable land in Uzbekistan.
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