Ressourcen Stichwort: Root Crops

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  1. Small-Scale Processing and Storage of Tropical Root Crops

    This book fully describes small-scale processing and storage methods for root crops, particularly taro, sweet potato, and yams. The authors emphasize methods of handling and preserving the crops that require little in the way of energy or technology, and they discuss traditional methods of...
    Postharvest Systems Tropical crops Root Crops Tropical Agriculture Postharvest Storage Root Crop Processing

  2. Macmillan tropical and sub-tropical foods

    01.01.1988 This book covers cereals, legumes, vegetables, root vegetables, fruit and plantation crops, animal foods.
    Cereals Legumes Root Crops

  3. Tropical Root and Tuber Crops : Cassava, Sweet Potato, Yams and Aroids

    Key Resource 12.12.2008 Crop production science in horticulture series: 17 Most of the world's poorest smallholders depend on tropical roots and tubers crops as their principal source of food and nutrition. These species produce large quantities of dietary energy and have stable yields under difficult environmental...
    Tropical crops Tuber Crops Root Crops

  4. Introduction to Tropical Root Crops

    Key Resource
    16.02.2015 Tropical root and tuber crops are consumed as staples in parts of the tropics and should be considered for their potential to produce impressive yields in small spaces. They provide valuable options for producing food under challenging growing conditions. Cassava and taro, for instance, are...
    Potatoes ECHO Resources Root Crops Sweet Potato Cassava Taro Yam

  5. Modifying the root environment to reduce crop stress

    Emphasis is on the development and understanding of the relationship between the plant and its subterranean environment and the effect of modification of that environment on plant response.
    Root Crops Crops and Soils Soil Ecology Soil Management

  6. Tropical root crops and rural development

    01.04.1979 This paper examines the potential role of tropical root crops as sources of human food, livestock feed and as raw materials for industrial processing and concludes that the most promising materials for industrial processing and concludes that the most promising immediate possibilities for...
    Root Crops Rural Development

  7. Root Crops & Staples: pages 32-53, Food Plants of New Guinea

    01.06.2005 This is a reprint of a chapter on root crops and staples from a book. It includes the name, description, distribution, cultivation, production, food value, insects, diseases, and pests of each plant. 30 pages, illustrated source: http://www.papuaweb.org/dlib/bk/french
    Root Crops

  8. Utilization of tropical foods: roots and tubers

    01.01.1989 Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference.
    Root Crops Tropical crops Tubers

  9. Adding value to root and tuber crops: a manual on product development

    This manual should be useful to anyone interested in developing root crops to generate income and increase supplies of human and animal food. The manual is divided into two parts. Part I, consisting of seven units, presents an approach to product development and explains how to apply it. Part II...
    Produce Trade Root Crops Tuber Crops

  10. Tropical Root and Tuber Crops Tomorrow; Proceedings, Vol 2

    01.01.1970 This publication is a record of the proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Tropical Root and Tuber Crops. Papers included survey the general status of each of the major crops and those factors that limit their production and utilization.
    Root Crops Tropical crops Tuber Crops