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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...
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1/1/1988 This book covers cereals, legumes, vegetables, root vegetables, fruit and plantation crops, animal foods.
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Recurso clave 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...
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Recurso clave16/2/2015 Cultivos de raíces y tubérculos tropicales se consumen como comida diaria en partes de los trópicos y se deben considerar por su potencial de rendir bastante en un espacio pequeño. Proveen opciones valerosas para producir alimentos en condiciones difíciles. Casava y taro, por ejemplo, son...
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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.
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1/4/1979 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...
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1/6/2005 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
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1/1/1989 Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference.
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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...
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1/1/1970 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.