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Agriculture in Dry Lands

Principles and Practice

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Buch | Hardcover
992 Seiten
1992
Elsevier Science Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-444-88912-6 (ISBN)
69,95 inkl. MwSt
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Throughout history, man has, by over-use, consistently reduced the productive capacity of dry lands. This degradation of one-third of the land area of the globe is, unfortunately, increasing. In recent years, world interest has turned to the problems of pollution of the environment and the impending food shortage as world population grows explosively. Thus the attention of international and other agricultural bodies has turned to the need for preserving and developing more effectively the agricultural potential of these areas.This book provides a comprehensive review of present knowledge of the agriculture of dry lands, with special emphasis on measures for conserving their natural resources. Management practices are described which aim at optimizing productivity of rainfed and irrigated agriculture without adverse effects on sustainability. Land use in the dry regions, and its evolution throughout history is described and analysed, and the lessons to be learnt from destructive technologies are stressed. In particular, current proposals for an alternative agriculture are discussed and their justification is questioned. This is a generalist work, which specialists can also find interesting, not only in their own discipline but as a concise way of acquainting themselves with the state-of-the-art in associated fields. Increasing specialisation with each discipline using its own vocabulary leads inevitably to communication problems, and the need for multi-disciplinary teams makes inter-discipline communication indispensible.

Foreword. Part I. Environment and natural resources. 1. Dry climates and their world distribution. 2. Climatic factors and their effect on crop production. 3. Soils of the dry zones. 4. Water resources, conservation and development. Part II. Crops under moisture stress. 5. Crop-water relations. 6. Plant adaptations to moisture stress. 7. Crop introduction and breeding for drought-prone areas. Part III. Land use and farming systems. 8. Agricultural systems in dry regions and their evolution. 9. Sustainable agriculture in dry regions. Part IV. Soil and crop management. 10. Soil fertility. 11. Mineral plant nutrition and fertilizer use. 12. Irrigation: principles and practice. 13. The maintenance of a permanent irrigation agriculture. 14. Tillage. 15. Plant population and planting geometries. 16. Crop sequences and associations. Part V. Crop protection. 17. Weeds and their control. 18. Insects and other plant pests. 19. Plant diseases. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.11.1992
Reihe/Serie Developments in Agricultural and Managed-Forest Ecology
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Weitere Fachgebiete Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
ISBN-10 0-444-88912-4 / 0444889124
ISBN-13 978-0-444-88912-6 / 9780444889126
Zustand Neuware
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