Resources Tagged: Agriculture Tropics
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1877-01-01 Excerpt of a longer work. Discussion on indian corn, rice, broom corn or millet. 54 pages
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1989-01-01 The present report is concerned with one particular aspect of this search for new production techniques and systems, that of phytopractices, after "phytopratiques" in French. This is a new term describing all those treatments which may improve, select, propagate or preserve plants on an...
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1979-01-01 Cornell International Agriculture Bulletin 36 Field expereiments were performed in Puerto Rico, Brazil, and Ghana on highly weathered acid soils (Oxisols and Ultisols) to assess the capacity of these soils to supply nitrogen to nonleguminous crops and to determine crop response to fertilizer...
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1978-04-01 The purpose of the Seminar was to review the present state of knowledge on the production, management, and utilization of forages under acid infertile soil conditions in the tropics, with emphasis in Latin Amerca, but taking advantage of relevant experiences gained in other parts of the world. An...
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0980-01-01 Analysing the important farming systems of the tropics, this book introduces the farm-management problems that arise for each. It identifies seven basically distinct systems; in each the economic implications of soil fertility, uncertainty, and labour productivity problems are discussed, and...
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1991-01-01 767 pages, illustrated, photos
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1983-01-01 38 pages, illustrated
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1986-01-01 37 pages, tables
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1980-01-01 Agriculture in the Tropicsis one of the most successful and widely read books in the Tropical Agriculture Series and offers a general account of all the factors that affect agriculture in the tropics. It details the economic and physical factors that affect tropical agriculture and discusses land...
- 2007-01-01 Despite the vast number of books and reports on tropical deforestation, there's confusion about the causes of forest loss and forest poverty, and the effectiveness of policy responses. 'At Loggerheads' seeks to describe ways to reconcile pressures for agricultural expansion in the tropics with...