Update on a Regional Workshop in Central America to Produce an "Information Kit" on Green Manure/Cover Crop Technologies

1. On September 20, 1996 CIDICCO received the comments of several readers (Tom Solomon, Milton Flores, Ken Schlather, Manuel Martinez, Scott Killough, Roland Bunch) to the version of the kit produced during the workshop.

2. To those comments, we added the CIDICCO's comments and Norman Sagastume concluded a "final version" that is being currently updated by the personnel of COMUNICA (design and layout).

3. The organization of the material is as follows:

Cover, Title of the Manual (Manual sobre cultivos de cobertura de Centroamerica)
Authors, organization, country
Producing team

Introduction
Objectives
Description of the process to produce the manual
Characteristics of the manual (how to use it, useful to field workers...)

Principles of Using Cover Crops and Green Manures

Cover Crops / Green Manures for Perennial Plantations

• Canavalia en renovacion de cafetales
  
• Arachis pintoi en cafe
  
• El Cultivo de palmito de pejibaye con arachis pintio
  
• Experiencias con 4 leguminosas forrajeras en palma aceitera

Cover Crops / Green Manures with annual crops

• Asociacion de Yuca, mungo y Canavalia en relevo
  
• Frijol terciopelo en rotacion con arroz
  
• Cultivos de cobertura en una fincan integrada
  
• Frijol tapado
  
• Canavalia en siembra de arroz en relevo

Cover Crops / Green Manures with maize in elevations under 1500 m ASL

• Maiz con frijol abono
  
• Maiz con frijol dolichos
  
• Maiz con canavalia
  
• Frijol alacin asociado con maiz

Cover Crops / Green manures with maize in elevations above 1500 m ASL

• Maiz con frijol milpero
  
• Siembra de frijoles chinapopo y milpero asociado con maiz
  
• Siembra de choreque solo y asociado con maiz

Other Uses of Cover Crops / Green Manures

• Uso del frijol abono para el consumo humano
  
• Uso del rastrojo mejorado con Dolichos
  
• Alimentacion de cerdos utilizando el frijol terciopelo y maiz
  
• Frijol abono como alimento para cerdos criollos

Additional Information (Anexos)

• Map of distribution of cc/gm systems
  
• Description of legume species
  
• List of common and scientific names
  
• Glosary of technic terms
  
• Addresses of autors
  
• Sources of seeds
  
• Sources of information

4. The final version will be printed in November 1997 in both versions: full color and black & white (funds aproved by MISEREOR allow us to make both versions).

Norman Sagastume or Raul Aleman
Apdo. 4443, Tegucigalpa MDC, Honduras C.A.
Tel-Fax: (504) 32-3850
e-mail: cidicco@ns.gbm.hn

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