Guide For Field Crops In The Tropics And The Subtropics

In the tropical and subtropical areas of the world, food grains make up the bulk of the diet for most people. Food grains together with fiber and specialty crops are also principal cash producers. It is with these commodities that this Guide for Field Crops in the Tropics and Subtropics concerns itself. The Guide deals with general situations; local applications are beyond the range of this moderate-size volume, but the basic information presented will permit area-by-area adaptations. This concise, up-to-date Guide is composed of 40 chapters. The first four are general introductory chapters, and treat rather extensively the important subjects of climate, soil, cropping, and farming systems as related to the tropics and subtropics. The other 36 chapters are divided as follows: 6 on cereal crops, 9 on food legumes, 6 on oil crops, 7 on root or tuber crops and bananas, 6 on major fiber crops and 2 on other cash crops. These chapters do not attempt to deal with the factors of providing inputs such as national supplies of fertilizer, insecticides and fungicides.

The tropical environment for crop production; Farming systems for the tropics and subtropics; General principles of improved crop production in the tropics and subtropics; Cereal crops: rice, maize, sorghum; millet; wheat; Barley; Food grain legumes: field beans, cowpeas; chickpeas; lentils; broadbeans; mungbeans; pigeon peas; field peas; secondary food legumes; Oil seed crops: groundnut; soybeans; sesame; sunflower; safflower; Cartorbean; Starchy crops: banana and plantain; taro and yautia; Cassava; Yams; Sweets potatoes; Potatoes; Onions; Fiber crops: cotton; for lint and seed; Jude; Kenaf; Ramie; Abaca; Manila hemp; Sisal; Henequen and related hard fibers; Special crops: pyrethrum; Tobacco.

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