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1995-01-01 This booklet is for commerical greenhouse growers, farmers, serious gardeners and anyone who wishes to maintain a low ecological profile by reducing their use of chemical pest-control substances. It includes the general principals of biological pest control and agents of biological pest control....
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2009-01-01 Worldwatch Report 179 48 pages, illustrated, photos
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1985-01-01 150 pages Offers a sound, throughly documented criticism of the assumptions and the effects of industrial agriculture
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Recipes for grains, vegetables, sweets, dairy products, poultry and meat dishes, and condiments are combined with advice in food preservation, gardening, beekeeping, raising livestock, soap making, and other farm and household activities.
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122 pages
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This book is a workbook with questions for pupils to answer, investigations and suggested activities for pupils to carry out on agriculture. Included in this book are topics on man in his environment, correct land use, animal keeping, sources and uses of water on the farm, food processing,...
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Gene Logsdon has become something of a rabble-rouser in progressive farm circles, stirring up debates and controversies with his popular New Farm Magazine column, The Contrary Farmer. One of Logsdon's principle contrarieties is the opinion that--popular images of the vanishing American farmer,...
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This monograph examines how China can approach agricultural self-sufficiency. All the authors contributed their best wisdom toward the objective of developing sustained modern agriculture in harmony with the natural environment.
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2011-01-19 For more than 4,000 years, Asian farmers worked the same fields repeatedly without sapping the land's fertility and without applying artificial fertilizer! How they accomplished this miraculous feat is described by author Franklin Hiram King, a former official of the U.S. Department of...
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1994-01-01 This book has been written to provide comprehensive coverage of the requirements for secondary and college agricultural courses and examinations, such as those of the West African Examinations Council. The book will serve as a good coursebook for those undertaking certificate and diploma level...