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E-raamat: Tropical Vegetable Production [CABI e-raamatud]

(formerly FAO, Rome, Italy)
  • Formaat: 240 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2010
  • Kirjastus: CABI Publishing
  • ISBN-13: 9781845937539
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  • Formaat: 240 pages
  • Ilmumisaeg: 12-Jun-2010
  • Kirjastus: CABI Publishing
  • ISBN-13: 9781845937539
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Sustainable crop production is vital to ensure that supplies of fresh vegetables and their products are readily available. However, food security still remains a huge problem in areas of the world, including the tropics and sub-tropics, where communities rely solely on subsistence farming to meet their day to day food demands. It is evident that food production needs to become more sustainable to ensure economic stability and poverty reduction. With this in mind Tropical Vegetable Production addresses the problems surrounding vegetable production in developing countries. Divided into two parts this volume discusses firstly the principles and practise of tropical vegetable production, from site selection, security and management to seeds, crop preparation and pesticides, and secondly provides details of those crops which are of particular importance in developing countries.
Preface vii
Acknowledgements x
PART 1 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF TROPICAL VEGETABLE PRODUCTION
1 Introduction
1(8)
2 Site, Topography, Soils and Water
9(16)
3 Site Management, Seeds and Types of Cultivars
25(13)
4 Support for Farmers
38(8)
5 Crop Preparation and Management
46(14)
6 Reducing Pre- and Postharvest Losses and Marketing Surpluses
60(13)
PART 2 TROPICAL VEGETABLE CROPS
7 Alliaceae -- Onions and Related Crops
73(10)
8 Cruciferae -- Crucifers
83(10)
9 Cucurbitaceae -- Cucurbits, the Vine Crops
93(20)
10 Solanaceae -- Tomatoes and Related Crops
113(19)
11 Leguminosae -- Beans and Related Crops
132(15)
12 Leafy Vegetables
147(15)
13 Araceae, Convolvulaceae, Dioscoreaceae, Euphorbiaceae -- Tropical Tubers
162(14)
14 Andean Tubers and Roots and Crops of the Lamiaceae and Apiaceae
176(11)
15 Gramineae and Cyperaceae
187(8)
Appendix 1 Indigenous Species Not Dealt With in the Main Text 195(2)
Appendix 2 International Research Institutes 197(2)
References 199(4)
General Index 203(16)
Index of Species 219
Raymond A T George has spent a lifetime in agronomy specialising in seed production. Following four years at Cambridge University Botanic Garden he moved to the NVRS, Wellesbourne as an Experimental Officer in the Plant Breeding Section for seven years. He then worked as an Advisory Officer for four years prior a lecturing and research appointment in crop production at the University of Bath where he supervised a team of research postgraduates studying seed production. He was seconded to The UN FAO in 1976 and worked on seed projects in Asia. Following his return to Bath University he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Crop Production and also continued to make consultancy missions for FAO, mainly concerned with seed production in Africa, Asia, South Pacific and the Indian Sub-Continent. Following retirement from Bath he continued consultancy and editorial work for FAO's Seed Service until 2010. He continues to write on seed production and associated topics.
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