potato Books and Publications

Sustainable potato production. Guidelines for developing countries

During the International Year of the Potato, celebrated in 2008, FAO and the International Potato Center helped forge partnerships worldwide to address critical aspects of sustainable potato production. This technical guide collates that experience to review technical, socio-economic, policy and institutional ...

By Earthprint Ltd

New light on a hidden treasure - International Year of the Potato 2008 - An end-of-year review

The International Year of the Potato (IYP) in 2008 was a celebration of one of humanity's most important and universally loved staple foods. This end-of-year review records IYP's achievements and underscores its essential message: that the potato is a vital part of the global food system, and will play an ever ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Making sweet potato chips and flour ( US$ 14.00 for 10 Copies )

This 8-page fold-out leaflet, practical for use in the field and easy to read, covers the subject of making sweet potato chips and flour. It gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Potato Crop

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Potato Science and Technology

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Growing vegetables for home and market

Vegetables that are easy to grow - potatoes, onions, tomatoes - provide economic, social and nutritional advantages and can make significant differences to smallholder livelihoods. With this booklet, policy-makers and development personnel will recognize the opportunities that are available for producing and ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Alfalfa Management Guide

Learn what it takes to move your yield from 3 tons to 6 or 9 tons. Emphasizes three key areas of alfalfa management - establishment, production, and harvest - and contains new research and recommendations on: Roundup Ready alfalfa, potato leap hopper and PHL resistance, Aphanomyces race 2, value of short ...

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Novel Aspects of the Biology of Chrysomelidae

agricultural pests. The Colorado potato beetle, the cereal beetle, flea beetle and the corn root worms ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Compilation of Agrinews videos (2008) / Compilation des videos Agriflash (2008)

This compilation contains the following Agrinews videos: 1) Potatoes in the air, "fruity ants", astuces livestock farmers, a tasty treat against malunutrition, detection aflatoxin, organic markets; 2) Food safety, cows and grasses, ginger´s back, head start on the armyworm, biotech plan, pedal and pump; 3) ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Petunia

Petunia belongs to the family of the Solanaceae and is closely related to important crop species such as tomato, potato, eggplant, pepper and tobacco. With around 35 species described it is one of the smaller genera and among those there are two groups of species that make up the majority of them: the purple ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Effects of Crop Rotation on Potato Production in the Temperate Zones

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Use of cassava and sweet potatoes in animal feeding - vol 46 (En)

Series: Better Farming SeriesInitially published by arrangement with INADES, Institut africain pour le développement économique et social, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Better Farming Series booklets are designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural education and training courses. They may be purchased as a set (45 booklets) or ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Biotechnology of Food Crops in Developing Countries

Tropical crops such as cowpea, yam, plantain, and cassava are heavily underresearched but, in addition to rice, maize, wheat, and potato, are important as primary or secondary food staples in the developing countries. The modern tools of molecular and cellular technology offer the opportunity not only to ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Processing of cassava and sweet potatoes for animal feeding - vol 44 (En)

Series: Better Farming SeriesInitially published by arrangement with INADES, Institut africain pour le développement économique et social, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, the Better Farming Series booklets are designed as handbooks for intermediate-level agricultural education and training courses. They may be purchased as a set (45 booklets) or ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Somatic Hybridization in Crop Improvement I

Thirty-five chapters on various aspects of fusion of plant protoplasts and somatic hybridization deal with the regeneration of interspecific and intergeneric somatic hybrids and cybrids in various plants: cereals, grasses, legumes, potato, tomato, eggplant, lettuce, Brassica, Datura, Hyoscyamus, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Integrated Management of Diseases Caused by Fungi, Phytoplasma and Bacteria

includes models for potato late blight management and Phytophthora decision-support systems, management of ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production

Today the goal of designing highly productive, sustainable agricultural production systems is at the forefront of agricultural research agendas around the world. The key to designing sustainable agricultural production technologies is in understanding their economic, environmental, and human health impacts. This volume presents a methodology designed to quantify such impacts and to ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Slayers, Saviors, Servants and Sex

This is a book for the general reader about the world of fungi. We should know more about fungi. They have killed us, saved us and served us since before written records began. We have been making bread, brewing ale, and fermenting wine for millennia. Our crops have been at the mercy of fungal diseases since we became farmers, and they still are. Fungal diseases have caused large demographic ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Slayers, Saviors, Servants and Sex

This is a book for the general reader about the world of fungi. We should know more about fungi. They have killed us, saved us and served us since before written records began. We have been making bread, brewing ale, and fermenting wine for millennia. Our crops have been at the mercy of fungal diseases since we became farmers, and they still are. Fungal diseases have caused large demographic ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Digital Technologies for Agricultural and Rural Development in the Global South

This book shares research and practice on current trends in digital technology for agricultural and rural development in the Global South. Growth of research in this field has been slower than the pace of change for practitioners, particularly in bringing socio-technical views of information technology and agricultural development perspectives together. The contents are therefore structured ...

By Stylus Publishing, LLC

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