Ressourcen Stichwort: Tropical Food Crops

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  1. Selecting the Best Plants for the Tropical Subsistence Farm

    Key Resource
    01.01.2007 By Dr. F. W. Martin. Published in parts, 1989 and 1994; Revised 1998 and 2007 by ECHO Staff Though nearly all plants are useful in some way, they are not equally valuable. For example, wheat, rice and corn may be considered the most valuable plants in the world based on the vast acreage planted...
    Crop Selection Tropical legumes Tropical Fruit Tropical Food Crops Tropical Forages Tropical Trees Perennial Vegetables

  2. Grown in Asia - Lesser Known Crops of Significance

    01.04.2009 This article is from ECHO Asia Note #1 When ripe, the yellow and apricot-colored fruit of the marian plum (Bouea macrophylla Griff.) seem to glow among the tree's glossy green leaves. The ripe fruit of marian plum offers an edible, crisp skin and juicy flesh. Besides being eaten raw as a dessert...
    Tropical Food Crops Tropical Fruit Agroforestry Asia

  3. Introducing A New Fruit Crop

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    20.01.2011 Over the past 30 plus years that we have been working with small-scale farmers in Central Africa, we have enjoyed the wonderful lushness of its forests, savannahs, and rivers. In addition, we have been privileged to get to know some of the many people groups, with their different cultures and...
    Fruit Trees Food Security Orchard Tropical Food Crops Nuts

  4. Utilization of tropical foods: Trees

    01.01.1989 Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods for purposesof training and field reference. 52 pages, illustrated, photos Food and Nutrition Paper 47/3
    Tropical Food Crops

  5. Utilization of tropical foods: Sugars, spices and stimulants: Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference

    01.01.1989 Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for puposes of training and field reference. 62 pages, tables
    Tropical Food Crops

  6. Techniques and Plants for the Tropical Subsistence Farm

    Key Resource 19.01.1980 General information about human nutritional needs forms the background for detailed discussion of various plant groups and the roles they fulfill in the human diet. Individual species of leaves, legumes, roots and tubers, fruit vegetables, and cereals that are especially appropriate for the...
    Tropical Food Crops Subsistence Farming

  7. AN Issue #29

    15.10.2016 Diagnosing Crop Nutrient Deficiencies in the Field A Primer of Coffee Harvesting and Processing Book Review: Perennial Vegetable Gardening
    Coffee Plant Nutrition Tropical Food Crops Asia

  8. Farming by the Stars in the Andes

    20.03.2000 For centuries, Andean farmers in Peru and Bolivia have monitored the brightness of the Pleiades stars to determine when to plant potato crops for optimal rainfall. Now scientists have validated the farmers’ weather forecasting methods.
    Planting Date Tropical Food Crops Farming Systems