The persisting ecological constraints of tropical agriculture /
Weischet, Wolfgang.
The persisting ecological constraints of tropical agriculture / Wolfgang Weischet and Cesar N. Caviedes. - Harlow, Essex, England : New York : Longman Scientific & Technical ; Wiley, 1993. - xiv, 319 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
CONTENTS
The ecological fundamentals of the constraint
Characteristics of traditional rained agriculture in the tropics
The soil of the tropics and their key role in an ecological context
The seeming contradiction between lush natural vegetation and poor agricultural crops on nutrient-poor soils of the humid tropics
The ecologically exceptional regions of the humid tropics
The ecological conditions in the seasonally wet and dry outer tropics
The green revolution in the tropical realm
International attempts at the level of research institutions
Practical attempts at applying new farming techniques
Transmigration in Indonesia
Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-313) and index.
0582056926
Agricultural ecology--Tropics.
Agriculture--Tropics.
Tropical crops--Ecology.
630.913 / WEI
The persisting ecological constraints of tropical agriculture / Wolfgang Weischet and Cesar N. Caviedes. - Harlow, Essex, England : New York : Longman Scientific & Technical ; Wiley, 1993. - xiv, 319 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
CONTENTS
The ecological fundamentals of the constraint
Characteristics of traditional rained agriculture in the tropics
The soil of the tropics and their key role in an ecological context
The seeming contradiction between lush natural vegetation and poor agricultural crops on nutrient-poor soils of the humid tropics
The ecologically exceptional regions of the humid tropics
The ecological conditions in the seasonally wet and dry outer tropics
The green revolution in the tropical realm
International attempts at the level of research institutions
Practical attempts at applying new farming techniques
Transmigration in Indonesia
Includes bibliographical references (p. 292-313) and index.
0582056926
Agricultural ecology--Tropics.
Agriculture--Tropics.
Tropical crops--Ecology.
630.913 / WEI