New Agricultural Crops

Informationen zum Autor Gary A. Ritchie is research project leader in the Western Forestry Research Center of the Weyerhaeuser Company. Klappentext Current and projected worldwide shortages of energy, fertilizer, and irrigation water, coupled with a rapidly expanding population, are prompting agricultural scientists to seek, identify, and develop new crop species. Such crops should be energy- and water-efficient, well adapted to marginal lands, suited to intensive culture, and productive of ma Zusammenfassung Crops should be energy- and water-efficient, well adapted to marginal lands, suited to intensive culture, and productive of marketable food, fibre, and other useful products. This book introduces a variety of new crop species that display exceptional promise in these areas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface -- Introduction -- Ancient Crops for the Twenty-first Century -- The Winged Bean as an Agricultural Crop -- Amaranth -- The Buffalo Gourd -- Mesquite -- Atriplex as a Forage Crop for Arid Lands -- Cassia -- Guayule -- Jojoba -- Leucaena

Product details

• Authors: RITCHIE, Gary A Ritchie, Gary A. Ritchie
• Assisted by: Gary A. Ritchie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367021252
• ISBN: 978-0-367-02125-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries; Agricultural science, Agronomy & crop production, Agronomy and crop production