1992-01-01 This book contains photographs and descriptions of twenty of the best fruits and nuts found in the rainforest and savanna areas of northwest Zaire. These provide food in a country where most of the 35,000,000 people live off the land. Zaire, previously the Belgian Congo, is the third largest...
"Organic Orcharding" will teach you everything you need to know about planning, planting, and maintaining your very own orchard.You'll also find insightful tips on: Developing woodlots Preventing diseases in fruit and nut trees Maintaining healthy fruit and nut trees Storing your produce And...
1991-01-01 Discusses how to grow 62 of the most popular vegetables, fruits, nuts and fragrant herbs, and provides information on storage and harvesting
Key Resource1992-01-19 This is the 2nd volume of the multivolume Prosea (Plant Resources of South-East Asia) Handbook which aims to summarize knowledge about useful plants for workers in education, research, extension and industry. Perennial species grown primarily for their ediblefruits(fleshy or dry) which are...
1993-01-01 Know and Enjoy Tropical Fruit is filled with interesting details about 141 tropical fruit and nuts. It explains how to identify, harvest or purchase, and how to store or tell the ripeness, and how to eat tropical fruit.
1999-01-01 Most edible nuts contain concentrated food reserves and are a valuable source of energy, protein, oils, minerals and vitamins suitable for human consumption; Apart from direct consumption in the raw form as well as coated and salted, edible nuts find use in confectionery, ice creams and sweets,...
1977-01-01 In this book the word "nut" is defined as any hardshelled fruit or seed of which the kernel is eaten by mankind. Dicots,(Dicotshave two seed leaves inside the seed coat) Monocots, (Monocotshave only one seed leaf inside the seed coat) and Gymnosperms (a plant that has seeds unprotected by an...
1984-01-01 This unique book takes a fascinating look at the natural history of nuts — their evolution in the world's food supply, and their botany, ecology, and cultivation. The author discusses almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, chestnuts, coconuts, filberts, macadamia nuts, peanuts, pecans, pistachios,...
1984-01-01 An evaluation of the environmental aspects of fruit trees in agroforestry reveals that there can be significant advantages of soil improvment, microclimatic amelioration and environmental protection in fruit tree-based agroforestry systems.