Author: James A. Duke Publisher: CRC Press ISBN: 9780849336201 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 548
Book Description
The CRC Handbook of Alternative Cash Crops describes 128 crop plants that can be grown as alternatives to cultivated crops, such as tobacco, and narcotic crops, such as opium poppy. Material is presented in alphabetical order by genus and species and includes information on ecology, cultivation, harvesting, economics, and biotic factors. This book will be valuable to AID agents, domestic agricultural extension agents, and soil and crop professionals worldwide.
Author: Andy Clark Publisher: DIANE Publishing ISBN: 1437903797 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.
Author: E.-C. Oerke Publisher: Elsevier ISBN: 0444597948 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 829
Book Description
The objective of this book is to provide information to be used as a basis for evaluating the fragile, shaky structure of global food production. The volume analyses the data by region and by intensity of cultivation; and furnishes information about the yield response, giving some indication of the health of the plants. It will be invaluable to all plant and crop scientists as well as to agriculturalists.
Author: H. Parameshwar Hegde Publisher: Discovery Publishing House Pvt Limited ISBN: 9788183567503 Category : Agriculture Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
Agriculsure refers so she producsion of food and goods shrough farming and foressry. Agriculsure was she key developmens shas led so she rise of civilizasion, wish she husbandry of domessicased animals and planss (i.e. crops) creasing food surpluses shas enabled she developmens of more densely populased and ssrasified sociesies. The ssudy of agriculsure is known as agriculsural science (she relased pracsice of gardening is ssudied in horsiculsure).
Author: Charles L. Mohler Publisher: Natural Resource Agriculture and Engineering Service (Nraes) ISBN: 9781933395210 Category : Crop rotation Languages : en Pages : 156
Author: Ignaciuk, A., Kwon, J., Maggio, G., Mastrorillo, M., Sitko, N.J. Publisher: Food & Agriculture Org. ISBN: 925135068X Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 36
Book Description
In this work, we merge socio-economic data with data on deforestation to explore the interrelationship between rural migration, the development of commercial agricultural sector, and forest cover loss. Specifically we test the role of cash crop producers and inter-district migrants on the tree loss in the parish of residence, while controlling for several other household-level and parish-level contributing factors of deforestation, including population density, proximity to markets and protected areas. Also, we investigate the agricultural channel, specifically producing cash crops, as one major channel through which inter-district migration affects deforestation. Our analysis aims to support the identification of policy strategies to reduce the adverse impacts of agricultural commercialization initiatives on Uganda’s critical natural resources; and identify policy options that maximize migrant’s benefits on recipient areas while minimizing downside risks of migration related to over-exploitation of resources and deforestation.
Author: Kuma, Tadesse Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst ISBN: Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 22
Book Description
One of the key questions in food policy debates in the last decades has been the role of cash cropping for achieving food security in low income countries. We revisit this question in the context of smallholder coffee production in Ethiopia. Using unique data collected by the authors on about 1,600 coffee farmers in the country, we find that coffee income improves food security, even after controlling for total income and other factors and after addressing the endogeneity of coffee income. Further analysis suggests that the pathway for achieving this improved food security is linked to being better able to smooth consumption across agricultural seasons. In contrast with food crops, coffee sales take place almost throughout the whole year, providing farmers with cash income also during the lean season.
Author: James A. Duke
Author: Andy Clark
Author: E.-C. Oerke
Author: Craig Wallin
Author: H. Parameshwar Hegde
Author: Richard Alan Miller
Author: Charles L. Mohler
Author: Ignaciuk, A., Kwon, J., Maggio, G., Mastrorillo, M., Sitko, N.J.
Author: Kuma, Tadesse
Author: Michael Hermann