Resources Tagged: Crops
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The great diversity within agricultural crop plants provides the basis upon which farming improvements depend. This diversity is the source of traits to improve yield and quality, resist disease and adapt to climate change. The problem is threefold: decreasing diversity in farmers' fields; the...
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From bamboo to black pepper, cacao to coconut and tea to taro―Specialty Crops for Pacific Islandsprovides detailed cultivation, value-added, and marketing information for 27 of the most important specialty crops for Pacific Islands and other tropical locations. Specialty crops provide a rapidly...
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The purpose of this booklet is to increase public awareness of these issues by providing a clear and balanced account of why conservation of crop relatives is important, how it can be effected and what actions need to be taken.
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This text was written to give attention to the scientific, technological, and economic foundations of world crop production. The sciences dealing with plants and the technology and economics of crop production and marketing have become irrevocably entwined. This text was planned for use primarily...
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19/04/1996 A discussion of the unique factors in growing food at high altitudes in the tropics.
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20/01/2007 One should only be critical of the decisions which have been made voluntarily by millions of smallholder farmers when one has the fullest understanding of all the reasons which led to their making a change in their cropping, and particularly their staple food.