Resources Tagged: Agriculture Tropics

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  1. Survival and subsistence in the tropics

    1978-01-01 This book is about survival and subsistence, especially when human systems fail. It presents an alternative life style outside of that called western civilization. If you live in the tropics it will give you the basic knowledge necessary to survive in spite of most catastrophes. It will give you...
    Agriculture-Tropics Food Supply

  2. Farming systems in the tropics (3rd ed.)

    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...
    Agriculture-Tropics

  3. At Loggerheads Agricultural expansion, poverty reduction, and environment in the tropical forests

    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...
    Deforestation Agriculture-Tropics Forrest Policy

  4. Low cost farming in the humid tropics: An illustrated handbook

    1983-01-01 38 pages, illustrated
    Agriculture-Tropics

  5. Nitrogen fertility in oxisols and ultisols of the humid tropics: A summary of cooperative projects carried out by Centro de Pesquisa Agropecuaria dos Cerrados, Planaltina, Brazil ... [et al.

    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...
    Crops and Nitrogen Agriculture-Tropics

  6. Pasture Production in Acid Soils of the Tropics: Proceedings of a seminar held at CIAT, Cali, Colombia, 17-21 April 1978

    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...
    Agriculture-Tropics Soil Acidity

  7. Trees, food, and people: land management in the tropics

    1977-01-01 Clearly agroforestry alone cannot solve all the problems associated with land management in the developing world, nor will the application of agroforestry techniques of itself bring about the optimization of land use, but the authors are convinced that foresters and agriculturalists together can...
    Agriculture-Tropics Forest Management-... Forest and Forestr...

  8. Tropical planting and gardening (6th ed.)

    1991-01-01 767 pages, illustrated, photos
    Agriculture-Tropics

  9. Treatise on the culture, preparation, commerce, and consumption of the principal products of the vegetable kingdom. tropical cereal

    1877-01-01 Excerpt of a longer work. Discussion on indian corn, rice, broom corn or millet. 54 pages
    Tropical crops Agriculture-Tropics

  10. The Home Garden in the Tropics

    2008-01-01 In this edition, features such as hedges and tres and shrubs that give a garden its permanent character, come to the fore. Moreover, the emphasis is on ensuring that some vegetables are available throughout the year, even where the gardener faces water shortage.
    Agriculture-Tropics Fruit-Culture Vegetable gardening