Multiple Cropping And Tropical Farming Systems
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Multiple Cropping And Tropical Farming Systems

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Multiple Cropping And Tropical Farming Systems

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This book covers the uses of tropical farming systems in tropics of mixed, strip, relay, sequential and multistorey cropping. It discusses the aspects of the tropical farming systems including their history and agronomy and the plant inter-relationship within them.

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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2019
ISBN
9780429709685
Edition
1
Subtopic
Biologie

Index

Adoption, 7, 35
Africa, 143
Agressor species, 76
Agro-climate, 142
Alternating bed system, 24
America, 141
Amino acids, 107
Annual windbreaks, 25
Association, of crops intimate, 54
Azotobactor, 77
Capital, 37
Canopy, of crop, 73, 90
Carbohydrates, 102
Climate, 12, 79, 114, 133
Competition
for nitrogen, 76
interspecific, 52,66,77,144
intraspecific, 57,66,77
plant, 52,65
plant-weed, 64
power, 61
Contour, 55
Credit, 33, 38
Crop
association, 7
interactions, 47
interrelationships, 47
management, 64
Cropping systems
definitions, 2,4
descriptions, 14-26
general, 1
Daylength, 128
Demand, 43
Diseases, 82, 85, 97
Dominant species 73, 77
Double cropping
Drought, 80, 82, 86, 87, 128
Ecology, 133
Economic,
data, 140
Employment
opportunities, 39
seasonality, 39
Energy,
added, 107
crisis, 8
solar, 107
Entrepreneurship, 33
Environment,
conditions, 77, 119, 141
of plant, 4, 46, 49, 102
saturation of, 50
social, 123, 135
Erosion, 8, 13, 23, 55, 61
Evaluation of systems, 102 139
Evaporation, 25, 75, 79
Extension, agricultural, 135
Factorial design, 140
Farm income, 44
Farming systems, 2
determinants, 1
Farm size, 36, 42
Fat, 108
Feedback, 136
Fertility, of soil, 128
Fertilizer, 33, 58, 61, 107, 130, 141, 145
Flood irrigation, 61
Food value, 32
Genotype, 4, 16, 48, 68, 142
Green revolution, 30
Growth cyc...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Dedication
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. LIST OF FIGURES
  8. PREFACE
  9. I INTRODUCTION
  10. II THE DIFFERENT MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
  11. III HISTORY OF MULTIPLE CROPPING
  12. IV ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS
  13. V AGRO-TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
  14. VI PLANT INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND COMPETITION
  15. VII AGRO-ECOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND PLANT PHYSICAL ASPECTS
  16. VIII EVALUATION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
  17. IX SELECTION AND DESIGN OF SUITABLE MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
  18. X RESEARCH
  19. REFERENCES
  20. INDEX