Some general charscteristics of farming in a tropical environment; Shifting cultivation systems; Fallow systems; Ley systems; Systems with permanent upland cultivation; Systems with arable irrigation farming; Systems with perennial crops; Grazing systems; General tendences in the development of tropical farm systems.
This book provides a basic guideline for ecologic organic gardening in tropical and subtropical climate BE ONE STEP AHEAD OF THE OTHERS with an author who knows what he is talking about. Dr. Pfaff unveils the basic secrets of successful horticulture and agriculture in tropical and subtropical climate. As the title hints at it you will find in this booklet about THE BASICS OF ECOLOGIC ORGANIC GARDENING IN THE TROPICS the information you need to successfully run a small self-sufficient garden or to manage a profitable ecologic organic agricultural operation. After the lecture you will have a lot of new essential information, insights and ideas that you won't find in this concentrated way in any other script. This booklet may be the foundation of your personal success story. Just a personal tip from the author: Keep a diary to note all your observations and if something doesn't work out the way you tried it, change the strategy and compare the results. There is always a way to improve. Don't worry if sometimes things don't work out as planned. There are so many factors involved and you can control only the basic ones. But if you are open to observe the nature and learn continuously and if you use healthy seeds and saplings and cling to the basic rules mentioned in this brochure your work will be crowned with success. By learning this way you find your best strategy to have positive results. Once you are there, never change a winning strategy you developed!
The importance of rive as a world crops, and its principal characteristics. The modern rice plant and the new technology: Greater potentials for rice production in the tropics. Problems of postharvest technology. Rice marketing. Some successful rice production programs. Promising rice research. Elements of a successful accelerated rice production program. A national rice program: putting the ingredients together.
Tropical Dairy Farming is a manual designed for use by dairy production advisors working in tropical areas, especially in South-East Asia. It aims to increase the productivity of small holder dairy farmers in the humid tropics by improving the feeding management of their livestock. It shows how to provide dairy cows with cost-effective feeds that match small holder farming systems and discusses the major obstacles to improving feeding management in the humid tropics. The author shows the benefits and drawbacks of various feed components and the calculation of balanced diets based mainly on forages combined with some supplementary feeding. Diseases and problems associated with unbalanced diets are also covered, as well as important information on growing and conserving quality forages as silage. The book draws on examples from a variety of countries including Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, East Timor and the Philippines.
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.
Continued population growth, rapidly changing consumption patterns and the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation are driving limited resources of food, energy, water and materials towards critical thresholds worldwide. These pressures are likely to be substantial across Africa, where countries will have to find innovative ways to boost crop and livestock production to avoid becoming more reliant on imports and food aid. Sustainable agricultural intensification - producing more output from the same area of land while reducing the negative environmental impacts - represents a solution for millions of African farmers. This volume presents the lessons learned from 40 sustainable agricultural intensification programmes in 20 countries across Africa, commissioned as part of the UK Government's Foresight project. Through detailed case studies, the authors of each chapter examine how to develop productive and sustainable agricultural systems and how to scale up these systems to reach many more millions of people in the future. Themes covered include crop improvements, agroforestry and soil conservation, conservation agriculture, integrated pest management, horticulture, livestock and fodder crops, aquaculture, and novel policies and partnerships.