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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Tác giả chính: George, Raymond A.T
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spelling oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-370772023-11-11T05:04:40Z Agricultural Seed Production George, Raymond A.T Agricultural 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 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. 2014-04-23T07:55:57Z 2014-04-23T07:55:57Z 2011 Book 978 1 84593 819 2 https://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/37077 en application/pdf CABI
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George, Raymond A.T
Agricultural Seed Production
description 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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