Author: Plant Breeding Institute (Cambridge, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Plant Breeding Institute (Cambridge, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Annual Report - Plant Breeding Institute
Author: Plant Breeding Institute (Cambridge, England)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Crop Breeding Institute (Zimbabwe)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Field crops
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Annual Report - Sugarcane Breeding Institute
Author: Sugarcane Breeding Institute (India)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sugarcane
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: Illinois Farmers' InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
With reports of County farmers' institutes for the year ...
Geopolitics and the Green Revolution
Author: John H. PerkinsPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0195110137
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
During the last 100 years, the worldwide yields of cereal grains, such as wheat and rice, have increased dramatically. Since the 1950s, developments in plant breeding science have been heralded as a "Green Revolution" in modern agriculture. But what factors have enabled and promoted thesetechnical changes? And what are the implications for the future of agriculture? This new book uses a framework of political ecology and environmental history to explore the "Green Revolution's" emergence during the 20th century in the United States, Mexico, India, and Britain. It argues that thenational security planning efforts of each nation were the most important forces promoting the development and spread of the "Green Revolution"; when viewed in the larger scheme, this period can be seen as the latest chapter in the long history of wheat use among humans, which dates back to theneolithic revolution. Efforts to reform agriculture and mitigate some of the harsh environmental and social consequences of the "Green Revolution" have generally been insensitive to the deeply embedded nature of high yielding agriculture in human ecology and political affairs. This important insightchallenges those involved in agriculture reform to make productivity both sustainable and adequate for a growing human population.
Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, a Keyword Index
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1338
Book Description
Serials Currently Received by the National Agricultural Library, 1975
Author: National Agricultural Library (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1392
Book Description
Annual Report of the Illinois Farmers' Institute
Author: Illinois Farmers' InstitutePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
With reports of County farmers' institutes for the year ...
Progress in Plant Breeding—1
Author: G.E. RussellPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483100073
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Progress in Plant Breeding 1 is a collection of review articles that aim to critically assess progress in different major crops, not only in the aspect of variety production, but also across all the related disciplines. The book covers topics such as dwarfing genes in wheat; sugar-beet breeding; development of grain-protein crops; and the breeding programs of the International Potato Center. Also covered in the book are topics such as the development of bird resistance of soghum and maize; advances in the breeding of chickpeas; and breeding rice for disease resistance. The text is recommended for botanists and agriculturists who would like to know more about the advances in plant breeding and how it is improving crops.