Tropical Grazing Lands
Tropical Grazing Lands

Author: R.O. Whyte

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9401023255

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1.1 Objective and scope These chapters are not intended as a treatise on range management of tropical grazing lands, nor on the agronomy of sown pastures and cultivated fodder crops, aspects of applied science that are only one stage above scientific farming and use of land. An attempt is made to present the vegetation sciences, or botany and ecology in their widest aspects, as the essential background for their application in economic land use and plant and animal husbandry. The basic thesis is that science is global, but that its practical application is restricted to specific biological and socio economic habitats. The region covered is termed the intertropical zone. This comprises the equatorial latitudes, the tropics and subtropics. It is not only that part of the globe lying between latitudes 30° north and south of the Equator, as proposed by some writers (DAVIES, W., 1960; repeated by DAVIES & SKIDMORE, 1966). Rather is it those regions of the world in which, at the lower elevations, certain families and members of the Gramineae and Leguminosae grow wild or can be cultivated. It may be a matter for discussion whether these plants in their wild communities or sown or planted crop mixtures are better indicators of a biological environment than the instruments and criteria of the meteorologists.

Tropical Pasture and Fodder Plants (grasses and Legumes)
Tropical Pasture and Fodder Plants (grasses and Legumes)

Author: A. V. Bogdan

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13:

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The grasses. Classification and distribution. Environment in relation to some aspects of grass physiology. Day length. Light intensity. Temperature. Rainfall. Soils. The structure of the grass plant. Cultivation. Establishment. Management. Association with the legumes. Herbage yields. Conservation. Nutritive value. Reproduction. The structure of floral parts. Flowering and pollination. Fertilization. Apomixis. Seed. Seed germination. Seed production. The more important species. The legumes. Classification and distribution. The structure of the leguminous plant. Nitrogen fixation by the legumes. In mixture with the grasses. Cultivation. Pests and diseases. Yields, utilization. Chemical composition, nutritive value. Palatability, toxicity. Reproduction. The flowers. Flowring, pollination. Seed production and harvesting. Breeding. The more important species.

Terminology for Grazing Lands and Grazing Animals
Terminology for Grazing Lands and Grazing Animals

Author: Forage and Grassland Terminology Committee

Publisher:

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13:

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Two years in the making, this book represents the combined effort of scientists in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States and of some 16 organizations and agencies including the American Forage and Grassland Council. It has been adopted by these 16 and numerous other organizations world-wide as the definitive standard for word usage in the science.

Tropical Forage Plants
Tropical Forage Plants

Author: W.D. Pitman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2000-11-28

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 1420038788

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Tropical Forage Plants: Development and Use covers the research and resulting pasture development in the tropics and subtropics, which has undergone dramatic changes in the past few decades. Providing a broad, global perspective, it serves as a comprehensive resource covering a wide range of subjects pertaining to forage and animal production in th

Tropical Pastures and Fodder Crops
Tropical Pastures and Fodder Crops

Author: L. R. Humphreys

Publisher:

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 135

ISBN-13:

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Natural grasslands of the tropics. A philosophy of pasture improvement. New and improved pasture plants. Pasture establishment. Soil fertility and fertiliser needs of tropical pastures. Pasture management and productivity.

Tropical Pasture Science
Tropical Pasture Science

Author: P. C. Whiteman

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1980

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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Climatic factors affecting pasture growth and yield. Soil factors affecting pasture growth and yield. The tropical pasture species. Management of tropical pastures. Animal production from tropical pastures. Applications to pasture research and developement.

Ecology of Cenchrus grass complex
Ecology of Cenchrus grass complex

Author: S.C. Pandeya

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9401129266

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The idea for the present volume stems from the In many cases we had to decide ourselves what long time friendship between the series editor and changes had to be made in the manuscript. This the volume editor. The field work was carried out was done, however, with the prior consent of during several years of the last two decades by Professor Pandeya. We hope that we did not Professor Pandeya and his team of workers: overlook any items which should have been S. C. Sharma, H. K. Jain, K. C. Paliwal, V. M. changed - if we did, it is our responsibility. In Bhanot, S. J. Pathak, R. Sharma, S. C. Bhatt, P. K. order to demonstrate our responsibility I have Mathur, Y. N. Rao and G. V. Saratbabu. The wide signed as co-editor of this volume. scope of the undertaking required expeditions and The series editor accepted this unusual task individual field studies for which reports were because the topic is of great significance for dry available. subtropical regions of the world. It was the task of Professor Pandey a to sift all The Cenchrus grasslands are of great importance this information and put it together in a form in the dry areas of South East Asia. The value of understandable for an international audience. the ecological grassland study for range manage The manuscript was delivered to the series edi ment is therefore obvious.