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.