Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

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Growing Food ...

dua, Italy Growing Food Tony Winch Hereford, UK A Guide to Food Production By ...

A C.I.P. Catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Published by Springer, P.O. Box 17, 3300 AA D ...

TABLE OF CONTENTS THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES USED ...

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DESCRIPTION AND CHARACTERISTICS Broad Bean (Horse Bean or Field Bean) Haricot (French) Bean Vetch (Grass Pea or Chickling Pea) C ...

Cassava/Manioc Papaya (Pawpaw) Winged Bean (Four-angled Bean) Peppers SECTION A Plant Growth IN AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE a ...

SECTION 3 288 310 313 ix 317 Bibliography 324 Index 327 TABLE OF CONTENTS A Naming and Classification of Food Crops B Seed Purch ...

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES USED IN AGRICULTURE 1A. PLANT GROWTH Green plants need to have an adequate supply of water, warmth, ...

Ovule—after fertilisation the ovule develops into the seed. The egg and the polar nuclei are fertilised by the two male nuclei. ...

About half of the more important food crops are naturally cross-pollinated, and their reproductive systems include various cleve ...

If plants are growing too close together (ie they are “too closely spaced”) they compete with each other for light, water, nutri ...

The recommended plant spacings for about 60 of the most common food crops are For optimum plant growth the leaves of crop plants ...

The function of the plant roots is to absorb water and nutrients from the soil, to anchor the aerial (above ground) plant parts, ...

Figure 4. The Nitrogen Cycle Three kinds of soil bacteria are involved in the Nitrogen Cycle: Nitrifying bacteria, such as Nitr ...

Nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which are found in nodules on the roots of leguminous plants. They take in Nitrogen gas from the air i ...

The effect of water stress on plant growth and development, and the utilisation of water by plants, is discussed below and also ...

The correct choice of variety, or cultivar, is also important. Most crops have varieties that have been specifically selected fo ...

rainfall often results in the fertiliser not reaching the root zone, because it remains too near to the soil surface to be used ...