Production of Vegetable Fern (Diplazium esculentum Reytz.) Under Varying Levels of Shade

This topic of interest dates back a few years to when the Director of ECHO Asia, observing that local edible vegetable ferns were only being wild-harvested and made available at market certain times of the year, rationalized that perhaps this local Neglected and Underutilized Species could be cultivated on-farm, using artificial shade, thus making it marketable in the ‘off-season’ as well. Since that time, the experiment has been replicated and wrapped up , and the following article summarizes what has been learned.

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Title Production of Vegetable Fern (Diplazium esculentum Reytz.) Under Varying Levels of Shade
Description This topic of interest dates back a few years to when the Director of ECHO Asia, observing that local edible vegetable ferns were only being wild-harvested and made available at market certain times of the year, rationalized that perhaps this local Neglected and Underutilized Species could be cultivated on-farm, using artificial shade, thus making it marketable in the ‘off-season’ as well. Since that time, the experiment has been replicated and wrapped up , and the following article summarizes what has been learned.
Agroecology Category
  • Sustainable food system
  • Knowledge and values
Agroecology Keyword
  • Yield increase
  • Local food system
Contributing organisations FAO, Cultivate Abundance
Author Patrick Trail, Yuwadee Danmalidoi , Abram Bicksler, Rick Burnette
Year 2021
Type of document Scientific & Research
Language
  • English
  • Khmer
  • Myanmar
  • Vietnamese
Country Asia
Administrative Level 1
Administrative Level 2
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