Real-time measures of canopy size as a basis for spatially varying nitrogen applications to winter wheat sown at different seed rates.
Plots were mechanically sown on ridges in a randomized complete block design with three replications (rainy season) and five replications (dry season).
Of the 44 villages that received seed in 1996, 28 were visited and all of them had sown the seed.
There were no significant differences between the blocks sown on different dates.
Spring wheat was sown on several successive dates.
Scenarios of two cultivars sown with two seed sizes are presented.
They noted the high labour costs of utilizing crop residues and sown or harvested forages for penned animals, and the alternative uses of crop residues.
Nowadays, swamps tend to be sown and harvested later than rice farms prepared on rain-fed land.
