Resources Tagged: Agriculture Tropics

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  1. 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...
    Agriculture-Tropics Crops and Nitrogen

  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. Agriculture in the Tropics (2nd ed.)

    1980-01-01 Agriculture in the Tropicsis 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...
    Agriculture-Tropics

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

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

  5. 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...
    Soil Acidity Agriculture-Tropics

  6. Organic matter and soil fertility: Management in acid soils of the tropics

    1986-01-01 37 pages, tables
    Soil Organic Matter Agriculture-Tropics

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

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

  8. 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...
    Food Supply Agriculture-Tropics

  9. Phytopractices in tropical regions: A preliminary survey of traditional crop improvement techniques

    1989-01-01 The present report is concerned with one particular aspect of this search for new production techniques and systems, that of phytopractices, after "phytopratiques" in French. This is a new term describing all those treatments which may improve, select, propagate or preserve plants on an...
    Agriculture-Tropics Crops-Development-... Plant Propagation

  10. 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
    Agriculture-Tropics Tropical crops