| grain quality characteristics of rice in madagascar retail markets. | a survey of rice in retail markets of madagascar with emphasis on the surplus regions of marovoay and lac alaotra and the deficient area, antananarivo city showed rices of madagascar to be predominantly medium-long, medium-shaped, with high apparent amylose content, low gelatinization temperature, and soft, hard or medium gel consistency. mean protein content was 7.5%. percent white grains among red and white grains ranged from 0 to 100% (mean 56%), head rice 0-94%, translucency 6-66%, and kett ... | 1990 | 2345731 |
| [study of catch crop of fodder in rice-fields in the area of tananarive]. | | 1970 | 5464700 |
| [diabetes in tananarive: an example of diabetes among rice-eating people]. | | 1966 | 5930746 |
| [rice: source of life and death on the plateaux of madagascar]. | since the 17th century, europeans travelling in madagascar described the contrast between the fever-free plateau and the fever-ridden coasts. the former were inhabited by people of asiatic origins and the latter by african migrants. at the end of the 18th century, "merina" kings developed land irrigation and rice cultivation, using manpower from the coasts. since then, rice has become a monoculture covering most of the arable lands of the highlands. the first malaria epidemic occurred in the tan ... | 1996 | 8705134 |
| [anopheles funestus and rice agriculture in the madagascar highlands]. | an exhaustive study of the potential habitats of anopheles funestus was led during 1992 in ankazobe on the plateau of madagascar, 95 km northwest of the capital tananarive. the rice fields provide more than 90% of the positive habitats versus less than 10% for the nonhuman biotopes. larva are especially abundant on the surfaces of the rice during grain head formation and maturation. the dense vegetation coverage provides them with shade and protection against predators. after harvesting, the fol ... | 1995 | 8784552 |