Agricultural Seed Production
The need to improve and increase food production and supply remains a major global issue, which is frequently referred to as 'Food Security'. The main starting point of the majority of agricultural crops is seed. It can be regarded as the primary agricultural input on which all other in...
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2014
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| Tóm tắt: | The need to improve and increase food production and supply remains a major global issue,
which is frequently referred to as 'Food Security'. The main starting point of the majority of
agricultural crops is seed. It can be regarded as the primary agricultural input on which all
other inputs, such as labour, irrigation and fertilizers or manures depend for success. This
volume concentrates on the production of true seed, which results from botanical seed that has
arisen as a result of fertilization or apomixis (as is the case with some of the fodder grasses).
Some of the agricultural crops such as Solanum tuberosum (the potato) and tropical tuber crops
such as cassava and yams are normally produced from propagules such as tubers or stem cut-
tings which, although frequently referred to as 'seed', are not true seed and have therefore not
been included.
This volume has taken the various types of agriculturists and their size of operation into
account by drawing attention to the small and subsistence farmers, especially in the tropics
and subtropics, with their seed production in addition to the major large-scale seed
enterprises.
The book is in two parts and has attempted to include the main agricultural crop species
of importance as sources of food. The industrial crops have not been included. Part 1 com-
prises six chapters concerning the principles and practice of agricultural seed production. In
Part 2 the agricultural crop species have been dealt with according to their taxonomy as botani-
cal families, either as single or groups of families per chapter. Some of the larger botanical
families such as Gramineae and Leguminosae, which contain genera of major global importance,
have been subdivided, either according to their main method of pollination or as their main
uses such as livestock forage or direct human consumption. |
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