New Agricultural Crops

Gary A Ritchie (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2019
CRC Press (Verlag)
978-0-367-02125-2 (ISBN)

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Crops should be energy- and water-efficient, well adapted to marginal lands, suited to intensive culture, and productive of marketable food, fibre, and other useful products. This book introduces a variety of new crop species that display exceptional promise in these areas.

Current and projected worldwide shortages of energy, fertilizer, and irrigation water, coupled with a rapidly expanding population, are prompting agricultural scientists to seek, identify, and develop new crop species. Such crops should be energy- and water-efficient, well adapted to marginal lands, suited to intensive culture, and productive of ma

Gary A. Ritchie is research project leader in the Western Forestry Research Center of the Weyerhaeuser Company.

Preface -- Introduction -- Ancient Crops for the Twenty-first Century -- The Winged Bean as an Agricultural Crop -- Amaranth -- The Buffalo Gourd -- Mesquite -- Atriplex as a Forage Crop for Arid Lands -- Cassia -- Guayule -- Jojoba -- Leucaena

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2019
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10	0-367-02125-0 / 0367021250
ISBN-13	978-0-367-02125-2 / 9780367021252
Zustand	Neuware