Farming systems in the tropics. /
Hans Ruthenberg
- 3rd ed.
- U.S.A. : Clarendon Press, 1980.
- xiv, 313 p. : ill. (part col.) : 24 cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Introduction -- Some characteristics of farming in a tropical environment -- Shifting cultivation systems -- Fallow systems -- Ley systems and diary systems -- Systems with permanent upland cultivation -- Systems with perenial crops -- Grazing systems --Systems with arable irrigation farming -- Systems with parenial crops -- Grazing systems -- Tendencies in the development of tropical farming systems -- Notes on methodology in cropping and farming system research.
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Agricultural systems -- Tropics -- Farm management