Research Catalog

Title

The ecology of tropical food crops / M.J.T. Norman, C.J. Pearson & P.G.E. Searle.

Author

Norman, M. J. T. (Michael John Thornley)

Publication

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1984.

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Additional Authors

• Pearson, C. J.
• Searle, P. G. E.

Description

ix, 369 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Manual on the ecology of food crops in tropical zones of developing countries - examines environmental relations between crops and farming systems, climate and soil; considers the agricultural production of grain (partic. Rice, maize, sorghum and pearl millet), leguminous vegetable (partic. Groundnut, common bean, soybean and chickpea), as well as cassava, sweet potato, yams and bananas. Graphs, references and statistical tables.

Subject

• Food crops > Ecology > Tropics
• Tropical crops > Ecology

Genre/Form

• manual.
• graph.
• reference.
• manuel.
• graphique.
• référence bibliographique.
• gráfico.
• referencia.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [286]-353.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 0521240824
• 0521284287 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^83015085^

OCLC

• 9827536
• SCSB-9976621

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library