Sustainable Agriculture and Food: Four volume set (Earthscan Reference Collections)

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 283 canker caterpillars. ‘In five days they cleared ...

284 Agricultural Revolutions and Change and ‘the money was drank at the ale house’ (Young, 1791, in Humphries, 1990). Generally ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 285 Notes 1 I am very grateful to E. J. T. Collins, ...

286 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Bureell, E. D. R. 1960. An Historical Geography of the Sandlings of Suffolk, 1600 to 185 ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 287 Holderness, B. A. 1989. ‘Prices, productivity an ...

288 Agricultural Revolutions and Change Pretty, Jules N. 1990b. Rapid Catchment Analysis for Extension Agents. A report of the 1 ...

Technology Adaptation: Agricultural Revolution in 17th–19th-Century Britain 289 Utton, Mr. 1848. Valuations of Estates of Sir Ph ...

13 Past Successes G. R. Conway The Japanese have made the dwarfing of wheat an art. The wheat stalk seldom grows longer than 50 ...

Past Successes 291 tional practices, with fewer or no outside inputs, yield gains are modest, of the order of 1 per cent or less ...

292 Agricultural Revolutions and Change From their analyses, Cornelius de Wit and his colleagues of the University of Wageningen ...

Past Successes 293 created by deliberately crossing two distinct lines which have been inbred through several generations by sel ...

294 Agricultural Revolutions and Change nitrogen raised yields more than fourfold. Even on rain-fed soils, yields more than doub ...

Past Successes 295 Source: B. C. Wright, 1972, Critical requirements of new dwarf wheat for maximum production, in Proceedings o ...

296 Agricultural Revolutions and Change between the Philippine government and the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. This was the ...

Past Successes 297 amassed at Los Baños and of the crosses made in 1962, a particularly promising combination was between the ta ...

298 Agricultural Revolutions and Change produced by governments and also sold by fertilizer companies.^18 In addition to continu ...

Past Successes 299 drought set in. But the greatly expanded planting in the third year was a catastro- phe, with yields of only ...

300 Agricultural Revolutions and Change take some of the credit for its success. The re-election of President Marcos in 1969 owe ...

Past Successes 301 In China rice yields gained an extra boost from the development of hybrid rice. Rice, like wheat, is self-pol ...

302 Agricultural Revolutions and Change white grains rather than the reddish grains of the new varieties, but this problem was s ...