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Soil fertility decline in the tropics : with case studies on plantations /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hartemink, Alfred E., 1964- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
Subjects:
Agriculture > Tropics > Case studies.
Soil degradation > Tropics.
Soil fertility > Tropics.
Demography.
Field Crops, (New March 2000)
Land Resources.
Plant Cropping Systems.
Pollution and Degradation.
Silviculture and Forest Management.
Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.
Soil Fertility.
Soil Surveys and Land Evaluation.
Case studies.
Cropping systems.
Forest plantations.
Land management.
Land use.
Plantations.
Population growth.
Saccharum officinarum.
Saccharum.
Soil degradation.
Soil fertility.
Soil resources.
Soil test values.
Spatial variation.
Sugarcane.
Sustainability.
Temporal variation.
Tropics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Human Population and Soil Degradation
  • Plantation Agriculture
  • Soil Fertility Decline : Theoretical Considerations
  • Annual Crops
  • Perennial Crop Plantations
  • Forest Plantations
  • Sugarcane Plantations
  • Case 1 : Sugarcane Plantation, Papua New Guinea
  • Case 2 : Sisal Plantations, Tanzania
  • Synthesis
  • Summary and Conclusions.