Author: U. S. Agricultural Research Service

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-03-25

Total Pages: 24

ISBN-13: 9780365553342

Excerpt from Protein-Rich Products for Aid and Trade: Summaries of Reports, Western Experimental Station Collaborators Conference, Held Wt Albany, California, March 15-17, 1967 An emergency program for the synthetic production of food is proposed as a feasible means of meeting the mounting world food shortage. Such a program would be based on the extensive research that has been done on the composition and synthesis of essential nutrients and on the existing commercially successful industries now producing vitamins, amino acids, yeasts, and food colors and flavors. The principal inputs in synthetic production would be petroleum, fixed nitrogen, and the mineral elements required for plant and animal life. These are the inputs used in modern agri culture. Synthetic processes, however, would be much more economical, because they operate in closed systems and would be free from the extensive losses in agriculture that result from the leaching of fertilizer from the soil by rain and from the toll taken by diseases, insect pests, rodents, and birds. The advantage on the part of agriculture in the utilization of solar energy for photosynthesis would be largely or wholly offset by the extensive use of petroleum on farms as a source of power and heat. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.