Advances in Irrigation Agronomy - Plantation Crops

'An excellent publication both in terms of content and presentation … No doubt [it] will be a great help for all those researchers and practitioners involved in improving water use productivity of an important but so far somewhat neglected group of crops.' Martin Smith, Experimental Agriculture Informationen zum Autor Mike Carr is Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Water Management at Cranfield University, UK. He has over 45 years of experience in the management and delivery of international research, education, training and consultancy in agriculture and natural resource management. He is former editor of the Cambridge University Press journal Experimental Agriculture. Klappentext Examines the factors influencing water productivity in nine key plantation crops in the context of increased pressure on water resources.Recognising the need for a coherent and accessible review of international irrigation research, this book examines the factors influencing water productivity in individual crops. It focuses on nine key plantation/industrial crops on which millions of people in the tropics and subtropics depend for their livelihoods. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Banana; 3. Cocoa; 4. Coconut; 5. Coffee; 6. Oil palm; 7. Rubber; 8. Sisal; 9. Sugar cane; 10. Tea; 11. Synthesis; References; Index.

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• Authors: M K V Carr, M. K. V. Carr, M. K. V. (Cranfield University Carr, Carr M. K. V.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107012479
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01247-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Botany; SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Botany, Biology, life sciences, Life sciences: general issues, Plant Physiology, Plant Reproduction & Propagation, Plant pathology & diseases, irrigation