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Table 4 Agricultural practices used by mungbean farmers in Southeast Asia and East Africa, in % of farmers unless indicated otherwise, 2017–18

From: Mungbean in Southeast Asia and East Africa: varieties, practices and constraints

Practice

Southeast Asia

East Africa

KHM

IDN

LAO

PHL

THA

VNM

Avg

UGA

KEN

TZA

Avg

Seed rate (kg/ha)

25

30

20

21

68

19

35

18

10

8

10

Certified seed

62

9

25

2

66

79

36

6

39

2

22

Seed recycling (cycles)

1

8

5

2

2

1

6

4

2

0

1

Seed treatment

 Insecticides

0

4

0

25

15

4

8

11

1

3

2

 Fungicides

0

1

0

7

29

0

7

11

0

0

1

 Bioagents

0

2

0

1

15

0

4

0

0

0

0

 Biofertilizers

0

0

0

10

50

0

11

0

1

0

0

Line sowing

52

57

27

10

13

76

46

8

86

45

65

Seed broadcasting

48

43

73

90

87

24

54

92

14

55

35

Min. fertilizers, basal

12

14

0

7

26

63

24

1

17

0

9

Min. fertilizers, top

9

14

0

0

10

95

25

0

0

0

0

Min. fertilizers, foliar

58

56

11

85

83

58

65

1

43

3

25

Insecticides/fungicides

49

77

4

77

89

77

77

70

77

54

68

Herbicides to prepare land

36

43

18

2

8

74

37

1

4

22

11

Herbicides to defoliate

18

2

0

0

7

3

8

0

0

0

0

Mechanized

 Land preparation

99

31

43

70

94

87

63

88

90

55

76

 Sowing

48

5

0

1

63

9

21

2

1

0

1

 Weeding

1

2

7

0

67

14

17

0

50

0

27

 Harvesting

36

2

4

0

95

0

24

1

0

0

0

 Threshing

89

49

36

43

94

48

61

1

1

0

1

  1. Cambodia (KHM), Indonesia (IDN), Lao PDR (LAO), Philippines (PHL), Thailand (THA), Vietnam (VNM), Uganda (UGA), Kenya (KEN), Tanzania (TZA). Avg. = Average all countries per region. Country averages for each practice are weighted by mungbean planted area in surveyed regions