Rice in the Tropics: A Guide to Development of National Programs

ISBN-13: 9780367301514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 256 str.

Robert F. Chandler Jr

Opis

Published in 1979. This book the first IADS sponsored volume on a commodity written especially for authorities, nonagricultural as well as agricultural, in developing countries and for the assistance agencies which cooperate with them.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- The Importance of Rice as a World Crop, and Its Principal Characteristics -- The Modern Rice Plant and the New Technology: Greater Potentials for Rice Production in the Tropics -- Problems of Postharvest Technology -- Rice Marketing -- Some Successful Rice Production Programs -- Promising Rice Research -- Elements of a Successful Accelerated Rice Production Program -- A National Rice Program: Putting the Ingredients Together -- Appendix: Where and How To Get Assistance

O autorze

Robert F. Chandler