The Tropical Agriculturalist Market Gardening

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

1998
Macmillan Education (Verlag)
978-0-333-65449-1 (ISBN)

Infos

This text introduces readers to vegetable production and guides them through the process of growing a profitable crop in tropical or subtropical climates. It provides details for 59 specific vegetables including the choice of cultivars, their cultivation and management and even how to use them. There is also more general advice on climates and soils, the production of suitable planting material, cultural operations, the use of inputs, and harvesting and postharvesting operations.

Inhalt

Part 1 Production factors: climate and soils; propagation; cultural operations; inputs; harvesting and postharvesting. Part 2 Major vegetable crops: cucurbits; leaf crops; legumes; onions and allied crops; root and tuber crops; solanaceous crops; miscellaneous crops. Appendices: pests of vegetable crops; diseases of vegetable crops; common weeds of vegetable crops.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.1.1998
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 137 x 217 mm
• Gewicht: 248 g
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• ISBN-10: 0-333-65449-8 / 0333654498
• ISBN-13: 978-0-333-65449-1 / 9780333654491
• Zustand: Neuware