Resources Tagged: Truck Farming

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  1. Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil

    14-02-2011 This is the book that tells you how to integrate small flocks of poultry in with family food production. There is a "back to the land" movement happening across the world, and it's happening in backyards and on small parcels of land. Chicken tractor systems have become so popular that the term...
    Truck farming Sustainable Agricu... Organic Farming Chickens

  2. Knott's Handbook For Vegetable Growers

    01-01-1997 This classic handbook is considered by generations of commercial growers as the standard reference tool for growing vegetable crops. Filled with information, largely in the form of tables and charts, from hard statistics on vegetable production and consumption to fascinating esoterica, such as...
    Vegetable farming Truck farming

  3. Vegetable Production in the Tropics

    01-01-1991 The range of vegetables species grown and found in markets is much larger in the tropics than in temperate countries and plays an important part in improving the diet. This book deals with the special methods of vegetable cultivation, the cultivation of the major vegetable families and groups,...
    Tropical Farming Tropical Vegetables Vegetables Truck farming

  4. Vegetable Research and Development in SADCC Countries: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Arusha, Tanzania, 9-13 July 1990

    01-01-1990 This publication contains important information on the status of vegetables in Africa, and in particular the status of research and development efforts in the SADCC countries. Combined with the other invited papers, we believe this publicaiton will serve as a useful benchmark document for some...
    On-Farm Research Truck farming Vegetable Gardenin... Southern Africa

  5. Growing Native Vegetables in Nigeria

    01-01-1974 The present publication concentrates mainly on the growing of leafy vegetables in Nigeria, many of them being little known to horticulturists and their immense potential of supplementing tropical diets unrealized. Mr. Ephenhuijsen gives a well illustrated, concise account of these native...
    Truck farming Vegetable gardening

  6. African Gardens and Orchards: Growing Vegetables and Fruit

    09-03-1990 A description of the principles and techniques of horticulture in Africa followed by details of growing a wide range of vegetables and fruits including many indigenous types. Aspects of nutrition, food processing and preservation, soil fertility, irrigation and plant protection are covered.
    Africa Truck farming Fruit Vegetable

  7. The Tropical Vegetable Garden: Principles for Improvement and Increased Production, With Applications to the Main Vegetables Types

    01-01-1992 Written for diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate students and researchers, this textbook distills 30 years of vegetable research at one of the world's leading agronomy institutes. The improved practices and techniques of increasing production which it describes, form a vital resource for any...
    Vegetable gardening Truck farming Tropical Vegetables

  8. A Handbook on Tropical Vegetable Production Flatland and Hillside

    01-01-1988 A good practical guide for the vegetable production student. A breakthrough in documentation of proven methods in flatland and hillside cultivation of tropical vegetables. Designed especially for today's progressive farmer.
    Hill farming Truck farming Tropical Vegetables

  9. Vegetables: Characteristics, Production, and Marketing

    01-01-1987 Describes the techniques and fundamental concepts underlying the production and marketing of vegetable crops, particularly those crops that contribute to the commercial vitality of the vegetable industry in the western hemisphere. Covers resources -- natural, biological and economic -- that are...
    Vegetable Trade Truck farming Vegetables

  10. Vegetable Production Guide for Florida

    01-01-2000 The purpose of this book is to provide the best and most up-to-date information available to the primary users of this book - the Florida vegetable industry. SP170 1999 and 2000 editions 2 copies
    Truck farming Florida Vegetables