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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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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
- Cover
- Half Title
- Dedication
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- LIST OF FIGURES
- PREFACE
- I INTRODUCTION
- II THE DIFFERENT MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
- III HISTORY OF MULTIPLE CROPPING
- IV ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ASPECTS
- V AGRO-TECHNICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
- VI PLANT INTERRELATIONSHIPS AND COMPETITION
- VII AGRO-ECOLOGICAL, BIOLOGICAL AND PLANT PHYSICAL ASPECTS
- VIII EVALUATION AND PRODUCTIVITY OF DIFFERENT SYSTEMS
- IX SELECTION AND DESIGN OF SUITABLE MULTIPLE CROPPING SYSTEMS
- X RESEARCH
- REFERENCES
- INDEX