Growing Food: A Guide to Food Production

Conversion Tables & Statistics 313–316

Convulvulaceae (Morning Glory

family) 212, 221

Copper 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 29, 86, 131,

246, 255, 256, 260

Corm (bulbo-tuber) 41, 204, 215, 216,

217, 248, 249, 250, 251

Couch grass 36, 41, 88

CowpeaVigna unguiculata158–161

Crop Year Table/Cropping Calendar

59–60

Cross-pollination 1, 2, 3, 37, 41, 54,

107, 114, 119, 120, 122, 125, 133,

282

Crotalaria/Sunn Hemp Crotalariaspp.

65, 70, 89

Cruciferae [Brassicaceae] (Cabbage

family) 37, 221 , 222, 224

Cucurbitaceae (Gourd family) 221,

226, 229, 228–231

Cultigen 39

Cultivar/Variety 38

CushawCucurbita agrosperma 229,

299

DasheenColocasia esculenta 215–217

Day length/Photoperiodism 42–43,

129, 130, 138, 156, 180, 183, 199,

235, 237, 269

Deficiency—plant diseases 24–29, 56,

137, 153, 154, 157, 163, 171, 184,

242, 246, 250, 279

Deficiency—human disorders 106,

118, 132, 171

76

EddoeColocasia esculenta 215–217

Electrical conductivity (EC) 15

Ensete 248

ErgotClaviceps purpurea 134, 135

Ericaceae(Heath family or ericaceous

plants) 244

Ethiopia 55, 89, 107, 126, 140–143,

144, 146, 152-3, 155–7, 159, 162,

169, 170, 171, 186, 192, 196–8,

231, 278

Exchangeable Sodium Percentage

(ESP) 15

Facultative varieties 59 , 107, 145

Fallow 10, 65

Favism 152

Fertiliser 29– 36

• applying 35


• economic return 33


• in the dry tropics 32


• on wheat 33


• organic or inorganic? 30


• residual value 35


• response 32–33


• split dressing 34


• storing 34
  Field (moisture) capacity 9
  Field Bean/Horse Bean/Broad Bean
  Vicia faba 152–155

Compost heap 13–14

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Citrus fruits 253–256

Cleistogamy 3

Climbing crops 62

Clone 42

Companion crops 63 , 80, 235

Compensation in plants 4 , 120, 137,

141, 143, 145, 153, 198

Composite varieties 53–54, 114, 129

Derris 79 , 211, 224

Determinate growth 42

Dichogamy 3

Dicotyledon 36, 37

Dioscoraceae (Yam family) 217–220

221

Diseases of plants 81–87

Drupes 243

Durum wheat Triticum durum 133,

143, 144 , 148, 288

D-value 72

Eelworms/Nematode 13, 58, 65, 78 , 86 ,

109, 126, 142, 160, 163, 178, 236

Dehiscence/Shattering of seed 42,

Dioecious plants/Dioecy 2, 3, 262

Farm yard manure/FYM 31