Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

Delivery Address: X warehouse in Y town, truck(s) to arrive on site before midday. Consignee: X warehouse in Y town, Z organisat ...

3C. CONVERSION TABLES AND STATISTICS (cd). LENGTH SI / Metric 1 centimetre (cm) = 0.394 inch 1 metre (m) = 39.370 inch= 1.094 ya ...

Imperial 1 ounce (oz.) = 28.350 g 1 pound (lb.) = 16.000 oz. = 0.454 kg 1 short hundredweight (Cwt.) = 100 pounds 1 long hundred ...

CALIBRATION For field applications of fertiliser, sprays etc: g/litre—parts/million (ppm): multiply by 1000 g/litre—ounces/Imper ...

CONVERSION FORMULAE Multiply By to calculate: LENGTH Centimetres 0.394 Inches Metres 39.370 Inches Metres 3.281 Feet Metres 1.09 ...

3D. SOME ISSUES TO CONSIDER WHEN PLANNING OR ASSESSING AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT OR REHABILITATION PROGRAMMES This section is con ...

Which other crops are also sometimes grown which are acceptable to farmers and also adapted to local conditions, but are not co ...

What are the other constraints to increasing food production? Make notes of replies, such as “Security—crop X is more easily st ...

normally difficult to accurately estimate the answer—see Section 1Hh, “Land Area Measurement”, page 74. Are the farmers certain ...

Is the quality and germination of the seed acceptable? Check if the seed has been, or can be, reliably and independently tested ...

Altitude At what height(s) above sea level are the farmers growing their various crops? Obtain the best available (contour) map ...

Livestock blood as well as for transport and field cultivations? supply, grazing? What part do animals play in the economy of ...

General Agriculture and Horticulture Agricultural Compendium. [Elsevier Science Publishers B.V] ISBN 0-444-42905-0 Tropical Crop ...

Legumes Crop and Product Digest. No.3 Food Legumes. D.E. Kay [Tropical Products Institute, London] ISBN 0-85954-085-5 Tropical L ...

Insects UK Pesticide Guide 2000 (The Green Book) [The British Crop Protection Council/ CABI] ISBN 0-85199-468-7 Pest Control and ...

INDEX ACCS 103 Acid/alkaline soil/pH index 20–23 Adventitious roots/buds 6, 41 Aflatoxins 166, 167, 190 Agropyron repens Couch g ...

Conversion Tables & Statistics 313–316 Convulvulaceae (Morning Glory family) 212, 221 Copper 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 86, 131 ...

Furfural 127 FYM/Farm Yard Manure 31 Garlic, chives & leeks 234 Genetic modification (GM) 106, 243 Genus 37 Germination of s ...

Lime 12,13,20,22–23, 25, 27, 28, 29, 35, 66, 118, 145, 154, 182, 209, 211, 223, 224, 226, 227, 230, 238, 256, 276 Linamarin 176, ...

INDEX 331 Nitrates 6–8, 20, 27, 29, 30, 32 Nitrobacter 7 Nitrogen 25, 29 Cycle 6–8 fixation 54 flush / Birch effect 33 Nitrosom ...