Leaf Stripping to Maximize Food and Feed Yields from Maize-Based Cropping Systems, Ghana

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture. 2019. Leaf Stripping to Maximize Food and Feed Yields from Maize-Based Cropping Systems, Ghana. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/UKCEVO. Harvard Dataverse. Version 1.

Feed shortages during the cropping season constrain to livestock production in small-scale crop-livestock systems in northern Ghana. The effect of stripping the lower leaves of maize at tasseling and silking to feed livestock on grain and stover yields of maize was tested over two years in northern Ghana.