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From: The system of crop intensification: reports from the field on improving agricultural production, food security, and resilience to climate change for multiple crops

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Demonstrations of the effect on root growth of transplanting young finger-millet seedlings, 10 or 15 days old, compared to older 21-day seedlings. The effect is seen with two different improved varieties of finger millet. The trials were done by crop scientists at the Andhra Pradesh state agricultural university in Hyderabad in 2004 before farmer experimentation began. This effect of transplanting young seedlings on plant root growth parallels that achieved with SRI management for rice (O. sativa), a gramineae species like finger millet (Eleusine coracana) (courtesy of Dr A Satyanarayana, ANGRAU).

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Agriculture & Food Security

ISSN: 2048-7010