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*CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE*

*for sustainable production intensification*


Dear Subscribers,

Please see herebelow details of the book, courtesy of Tim Krupnik:

*Krupnik, T.J., S. Santos Valle, A.J. McDonald, S. Justice, I. Hossain, and
M.K. Gathala. 2013. Made in Bangladesh: Scale-appropriate machinery
for agricultural resource conservation. Mexico, D.F.: CIMMYT.*

The book can be downloaded or requested as described below.


*Amir Kassam *

*Moderator*



Plant Production and Protection Division

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
00153 Rome
Italy
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*Save and Grow*

*Sustainable Crop Production Intensification*


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Krupnik, Timothy (CIMMYT-Bangladesh) <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 4:50 PM
Subject: New item for the CA Community of Practice website: New CIMMYT book
on Scale-appropriate machinery for agricultural resource conservation
To: Amir Kassam <[log in to unmask]>


 Dear Amir,

 Greetings from Bangladesh. I wondered if you would mind posting
information on a new CIMMYT-Bangladesh book on CA Community of Practice
email server. I think you will find the announcement below appropriate.
Details of the book can be found below.

 Many thanks,

 Tim

  Dr. Timothy J. Krupnik *I *Systems Agronomist *I *CIMMYT (International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center)
 *Project Leader for the Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia -
Mechanization and Irrigation (CSISA-MI) Project*
    House 10/B, Road 53, Gulshan-2,  Dhaka, 1213, Bangladesh  I  Mobile:
+88-0175-556-8938.  I  Skype ID: timothy_krupnik
    CIMMYT: Click here  <http://www.cimmyt.org/en/> I CSISA-MI: Click
here<http://csisa.cimmyt.org/where-we-work/csisa-bangladesh/csisa-mechanization-and-irrigation/>
 I
  Linkedin: Click here<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/timothy-j-krupnik/22/321/527>
  I  Google Scholar: Click here <http://bit.ly/19B3zn1>  I  Research
Gate: Click
here <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Krupnik/>

            Watch a short video about CIMMYT's work to sustainably
intensify cereal farming systems in South Asia. Click here for
English<http://www.accessagriculture.org/node/949/en>
,
  Nepali <http://www.accessagriculture.org/node/949/ne>,
Hindi<http://www.accessagriculture.org/node/949/hi>,
or Bangla <http://www.accessagriculture.org/node/949/bgl>. You can also
find short videos on bed planting<http://www.accessagriculture.org/node/880/en>
,  strip tillage <http://www.accessagriculture.org/node/882/en> crop
management practices, and axial
flow<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_AgVzw-wY&feature=youtu.be>

pumps for surface water
irrigation<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oX_AgVzw-wY&feature=youtu.be>
in the same languages by clicking on the links in blue.


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 We  are pleased to send you notice of the most recent output from the
CIMMYT-Bangladesh team, a book on agricultural machineries made in
Bangladesh that can be used for conservation agriculture and related
production purposes. The details can be found below:

 *Krupnik, T.J., S. Santos Valle, A.J. McDonald, S. Justice, I. Hossain,
and M.K. Gathala. 2013. Made in Bangladesh: Scale-appropriate machinery
for agricultural resource conservation. Mexico, D.F.: CIMMYT.*

 *ABSTRACT: An open-source publication targeted to machinery manufacturers,
engineers, researchers and development practitioners, this book
describes and provides technical designs for small-scale agricultural
machinery developed or produced in Bangladesh to support the sustainable
intensification of agriculture by smallholder farmers. The focus is on
smart, scale-appropriate equipment — particularly for use with two-wheel
hand tractors suited for the small plots typical throughout Bangladesh, but
also in many countries where smallholder farmers predominate. Most of the
machinery is designed for use with conservation agriculture crop management
practices and allows precise and timely seeding and fertilization of crops
with reduced soil disturbance. Each chapter includes written descriptions
and photographs of the machines, outlining their purpose, performance and
eld use, followed by detailed, to-scale technical designs and other
information to facilitate production of standardized copies or improvements
in the original designs. The implements described include zero tillage and
strip tillage seed and fertilizer drills, bed planters, axial fow
irrigation pumps, strip tillage blades, improved furrow openers and seed
metering mechanisms – all specialized for use with two-wheel tractors.*

 We wish to graciously acknowledge USAID for funding the CSISA-MI project,
the EU for funding the Agriculture, Nutrition and Extension Project, and
ACIAR for funding the Rice-Maize project, all of which contributed to the
development of this resource book.

 *The book can be downloaded here:*

 http://repository.cimmyt.org/xmlui/handle/10883/3381

 A limited number of hard copies of the book can be made available by
sending an email request to Subrata Chakrabarti ([log in to unmask]).

 *Please note the following if you choose to download and print this book
to aid in manufacturing agricultural machineries:*

 Different scales are used in the technical designs throughout the book,
depending on what was most appropriate for the technical design and in
accordance with the size of the paper used (some are on A3-sized paper,
which is 29.7 x 32 cm, and others on A4, which is 21 x 29.7 cm). It is
fundamental to understand that this allows the reader to take measurements
directly from the paper since the design is scaled to the paper size. We
recommend that you always use A3 size paper when printing the scaled
technical designs, and/or be sure to print the technical designs on the
same size of paper for each printing. The use of a different paper size
than A3 will incur into measurement errors by not following these
instructions.

 We hope that you find the book useful!

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