The Red Soils of East and Southern Africa
Title | The Red Soils of East and Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | International Development Research Centre (Canada) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 510 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Red soils |
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The Red Soils of China
Title | The Red Soils of China PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Wilson |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 424 |
Release | 2004-05-26 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781402021374 |
The red soils of China are typical in their chemical, physical and mineralogical characteristics of red soils in other tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world, particularly in South America, Africa and south-east Asia. For the most part, these soils are highly weathered and inherently infertile. They are acidic, nutrient deficient, poor in organic matter and have a low water-holding and supplying capacity. They cannot sustain arable cropping systems without the most careful management and are highly susceptible to soil erosion, particularly on sloping land. It is the purpose of this book to present recent research showing how the problems associated with using the red soils in China for sustainable agricultural production can be overcome, using a variety of traditional and novel approaches. In principle, these approaches should be useful in other tropical and sub-tropical countries faced with the problem of making the best use of their fragile red soil resources. The term "in principle" is used deliberately because, of course, the different red soil countries invariably operate within dissimilar socio-economic frameworks. At the present time, China may be considered to be in the process of an "industrial revolution", rather like that that took place in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Red Soils of East and Southern Africa
Title | Red Soils of East and Southern Africa PDF eBook |
Author | K. Asumadu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Soils |
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Seventh Meeting of the East and Southern African Sub-Committee for Soil Correlation and Land Evaluation, Gaborone, Botswana, 30 March-8 April, 1987
Title | Seventh Meeting of the East and Southern African Sub-Committee for Soil Correlation and Land Evaluation, Gaborone, Botswana, 30 March-8 April, 1987 PDF eBook |
Author | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. Eastern African Sub-Committee for Soil Correlation and Land Evaluation |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 172 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789251026755 |
The Miombo in Transition
Title | The Miombo in Transition PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce Morgan Campbell |
Publisher | CIFOR |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 1996-01-01 |
Genre | Forest ecology |
ISBN | 9798764072 |
Miombo woodlands and their use: overview and key issues. The ecology of miombo woodlands. Population biology of miombo tree. Miombo woodlands in the wider context: macro-economic and inter-sectoral influences. Rural households and miombo woodlands: use, value and management. Trade in woodland products from the miombo region. Managing miombo woodland. Institutional arrangements governing the use and the management of miombo woodlands. Miombo woodlands and rural livelihoods: options and opportunities.
Red & Lateritic Soils
Title | Red & Lateritic Soils PDF eBook |
Author | J. L. Sehgal |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 490 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Acid soils |
ISBN | 9789054107712 |
Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science
Title | Report of the Annual Meeting of the South African Association for the Advancement of Science PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 604 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Science |
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