Resources Tagged: Tropical Crops

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  1. Utilization of tropical foods: roots and tubers: compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference.

    Compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference.
    Root Crops Tropical crops Tubers Tropics

  2. Utilization of tropical foods: tropical beans: compendium on technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant, for purposes of training and field reference.

    This is one of a series of books prepared by the staff of the Food Policy and Nutrition Division on the subject of traditional food crops froom tropical areas. The series includes studies on the nutritional value, household processing and utilization of food plants growing in given ecological...
    Tropical crops Tropics Legumes Legumes as Food

  3. Tree and Field Crops of the Wetter Regions of the Tropics

    Key Resource 1980-01-19 The first part of the book, which assumes an elementary knowledge of agriculture, biology, and allied sciences, covers in detail the methods best suited to the cultivation of crops in the wet tropics. It advocates the use of intensive systems of agriculture which are less destructive to the...
    Field Crops Tropical crops Rain Forest Tropics agriculture

  4. Pollination of cultivated plants in the tropics

    This bulletin, based on contributions from various contributors and edited by Dr. D.W. Roubik, introduces the reader to various aspects of natural and insect pollination. It discusses the pollinators themselves, and the ecological and economic importance of pollination, as well as applied...
    Pollination Tropics Plants-Cultivated Pollination by ins... Tropical crops

  5. Vegetables for the hot, humid tropics - a newsletter and annual communication among research workers

    This annual newsletter, distributed free to any research worker or institution that requests it, it is desibned to fill a special need through emphasizing the lesser knwon vegetables and making them available throughout the tropics.
    Vegetables Tropical crops Tropics

  6. Triticale: a promising addition to the world's cereal grains: report

    The main purpose of this report is to review the status of the types of triticale developed at the Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maiz y Trigo (CIMMYT) as food crops for use in developing nations. A secondary purpose is to reintroduce triticale to the research community outside the Third...
    Botany Economics Tropical plants Tropics Tropical crops

  7. Field crop production in tropical Africa: principles and practice

    The aim of this book is to bring the results of scientific research and progress in crop production within the easy reach of students of agriculture, and to provide a comprehensive text for an introductory course in field crop production.
    Field Crops Tropical crops

  8. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics: cultivation, economic value, utilization

    Each chapter begins with an introduction to the particular properties of the plant group, giving an overview on the economics, production trends, nutritional aspects, chemistry, and technological features. Only the major crops could be treated in detail. With regard to these, we sought to cover...
    Tropical crops Tropical plants Tropics agriculture Botany Economic

  9. Growing & using exotic foods: living off the land

    Here is a guide to the vast array of exotic fruits and other delicious edibles from the sunny tropics and subtropics. It lists and illustrates more than 70 useful plants and gives growing instructions, sources, recipes, and fascinating facts about each one.
    Tropical Fruit Tropical crops Fruit-Cookery

  10. Utilization of tropical foods: tropical oil-seeds: compendium of technological and nutritional aspects of processing and utilization of tropical foods, both animal and plant for purposes of training and field reference

    This booklet discusses the utilization of soybeans, peanuts, groundnut, cottonseed to name a fiew from around the world.
    Oilseed Plants Tropical crops