Agriculture in the Tropics

Author: C. C. Webster
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780632040544
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 552

Book Description
Agriculture in the Tropics is 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 management and the different types of farming systems in practice. It also discusses tropical crops and the improvements that can be made by effective plant breeding programmes. Information is provided on animal feeds, how animals adapt to their environment and how livestock can be improved by well managed hygiene, breeding and nutrition. The third edition has been fully updated and is an essential reference source for all those requiring a comprehensive introduction to tropical agriculture.

Farming Systems in the Tropics

Author: Hans Ruthenberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
Some general charscteristics of farming in a tropical environment; Shifting cultivation systems; Fallow systems; Ley systems; Systems with permanent upland cultivation; Systems with arable irrigation farming; Systems with perennial crops; Grazing systems; General tendences in the development of tropical farm systems.

Basics of Successful Agriculture in the Tropics

Author: Oliver Pfaff
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781523813506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 72

Book Description
This book provides a basic guideline for ecologic organic gardening in tropical and subtropical climate BE ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE OTHERS with an author who knows what he is talking about. Dr. Pfaff unveils the basic secrets of successful horticulture and agriculture in tropical and subtropical climate. As the title hints at it you will find in this booklet about THE BASICS OF ECOLOGIC ORGANIC GARDENING IN THE TROPICS the information you need to successfully run a small self-sufficient garden or to manage a profitable ecologic organic agricultural operation. After the lecture you will have a lot of new essential information, insights and ideas that you won't find in this concentrated way in any other script. This booklet may be the foundation of your personal success story. Just a personal tip from the author: Keep a diary to note all your observations and if something doesn't work out the way you tried it, change the strategy and compare the results. There is always a way to improve. Don't worry if sometimes things don't work out as planned. There are so many factors involved and you can control only the basic ones. But if you are open to observe the nature and learn continuously and if you use healthy seeds and saplings and cling to the basic rules mentioned in this brochure your work will be crowned with success. By learning this way you find your best strategy to have positive results. Once you are there, never change a winning strategy you developed!

Properties and Management of Soils in the Tropics

Author: Pedro A. Sanchez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107176050
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 685

Book Description
Long-awaited second edition of classic textbook, brought completely up to date, for courses on tropical soils, and reference for scientists and professionals.

Rice in the Tropics

Author: Robert Flint Chandler
Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 0891583629
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
The importance of rive as a world crops, and its principal characteristics. The modern rice plant and the new technology: Greater potentials for rice production in the tropics. Problems of postharvest technology. Rice marketing. Some successful rice production programs. Promising rice research. Elements of a successful accelerated rice production program. A national rice program: putting the ingredients together.

Sustainable Intensification

Author: Jules N. Pretty
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136529276
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.

Principles of Tropical Agronomy

Author: Sayed N. Azam-Ali
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 085199136X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 246

Book Description
This book is concerned with the principles by which crop management can influence how plants use environmental resources. It synthesizes current knowledge in plant physiology, environmental physics, soil science and climate to provide a framework for studying crop production in tropical environments.

Practical Lessons in Tropical Agriculture...

Author: Robert Lemuel Clute
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description

The Oil Palm

Author: R. H. V. Corley
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118953304
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 689

Book Description
The oil palm is the world's most valuable oil crop. Its production has increased over the decades, reaching 56 million tons in 2013, and it gives the highest yields per hectare of all oil crops. Remarkably, oil palm has remained profitable through periods of low prices. Demand for palm oil is also expanding, with the edible demand now complemented by added demand from biodiesel producers. The Oil Palm is the definitive reference work on this important crop. This fifth edition features new topics - including the conversion of palm oil to biodiesel, and discussions about the impacts of palm oil production on the environment and effects of climate change alongside comprehensively revised chapters, with updated references throughout. The Oil Palm, Fifth Edition will be useful to researchers, plantation and mill managers who wish to understand the science underlying recommended practices. It is an indispensable reference for agriculture students and all those working in the oil palm industry worldwide.

Multiple Cropping And Tropical Farming Systems

Author: Willem C. Beets
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 0429689675
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 172

Book Description
This book covers the uses of tropical farming systems in tropics of mixed, strip, relay, sequential and multistorey cropping. It discusses the aspects of the tropical farming systems including their history and agronomy and the plant inter-relationship within them.