Download or read book Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture written by Scott E. Ingram and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture is the first of its kind. Each chapter considers four questions: what we don’t know about specific aspects of traditional agriculture, why we need to know more, how we can know more, and what research questions can be pursued to know more. What is known is presented to provide context for what is unknown. Traditional agriculture, nonindustrial plant cultivation for human use, is practiced worldwide by millions of smallholder farmers in arid lands. Advancing an understanding of traditional agriculture can improve its practice and contribute to understanding the past. Traditional agriculture has been practiced in the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico for at least four thousand years and intensely studied for at least one hundred years. What is not known or well-understood about traditional arid lands agriculture in this region has broad application for research, policy, and agricultural practices in arid lands worldwide. The authors represent the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, art, botany, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, and pedology. This multidisciplinary book will engage students, practitioners, scholars, and any interested in understanding and advancing traditional agriculture.
Download or read book Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture written by Scott E. Ingram and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Arid Lands Agriculture is the first of its kind. Each chapter considers four questions: what we don’t know about specific aspects of traditional agriculture, why we need to know more, how we can know more, and what research questions can be pursued to know more. What is known is presented to provide context for what is unknown. Traditional agriculture, nonindustrial plant cultivation for human use, is practiced worldwide by millions of smallholder farmers in arid lands. Advancing an understanding of traditional agriculture can improve its practice and contribute to understanding the past. Traditional agriculture has been practiced in the U.S. Southwest and northwest Mexico for at least four thousand years and intensely studied for at least one hundred years. What is not known or well-understood about traditional arid lands agriculture in this region has broad application for research, policy, and agricultural practices in arid lands worldwide. The authors represent the disciplines of archaeology, anthropology, agronomy, art, botany, geomorphology, paleoclimatology, and pedology. This multidisciplinary book will engage students, practitioners, scholars, and any interested in understanding and advancing traditional agriculture.
Download or read book Diversification of Arid Farming Systems written by P. Narain and published by Scientific Publishers. This book was released on 2009-04-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the years, economic considerations have overtaken the sustainability issue. Low and erratic rainfall, frequent droughts, the increasing costs of cultivation, lower compensation of labour and inputs have made farming in the arid regions a challenging enterprise. Employment opportunities in sectors other than agriculture have enticed many to cross the floor. The largest segment of the farming community, however, is constrained to make a living from farm related activities. With the opening of markets for international trade in farm commodities, the competition has toughened for the resource-constrained farmers of the arid regions of the country. On the other hand, useful technologies have been generated by researchers on many alternative systems, which could be adopted. In this scenario, the farmers could benefit greatly by inducing diversification in the farming systems and by strengthening the traditional systems. With this backdrop, a National Symposium on Livelihood Security and Diversified Farming Systems in Arid Region was organized by the Arid Zone Research Association of India at the Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur, from January 14-16, 2006. Selected papers presented at the symposium and invited articles have been included in this compendium and are grouped in sections on Diversification, Strengthening the Traditional Farming Systems, Enhancing Resource Use Efficiency, Livestock-based Farming Systems, Value Addition, Socio-economic Issues and Transfer of Technology. Currently, food, water and energy crises are of global concern. The challenge ahead is to strike a balance between basic needs of a large population and to maintain the pace of development. Diversification of farming systems may contribute towards achieving this goal to some extent. It is hoped that the book will provide options for diversification of the existing farming systems and benefit there from.
Download or read book Traditional Agricultural Practices written by T. Rathakrishnan and published by New India Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indian context.
Download or read book Traditional Food Plants written by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 1988 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Traditional Agricultural and Water Technologies of the Thar written by Bharat Jhunjhunwala and published by Gyan Publishing House. This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a path breaking documentation of traditional technologies in agriculture and water management in the arid region of the Thar desert. The technologies have been profusely illustrated.
Download or read book The Plight and Promise of Arid Land Agriculture written by C. Wiley Hinman and published by . This book was released on 1992-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: -- The Environmentalist
Download or read book Agriculture in Dry Lands written by I. Arnon and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout history, man has, by over-use, consistently reduced the productive capacity of dry lands. This degradation of one-third of the land area of the globe is, unfortunately, increasing. In recent years, world interest has turned to the problems of pollution of the environment and the impending food shortage as world population grows explosively. Thus the attention of international and other agricultural bodies has turned to the need for preserving and developing more effectively the agricultural potential of these areas. This book provides a comprehensive review of present knowledge of the agriculture of dry lands, with special emphasis on measures for conserving their natural resources. Management practices are described which aim at optimizing productivity of rainfed and irrigated agriculture without adverse effects on sustainability. Land use in the dry regions, and its evolution throughout history is described and analysed, and the lessons to be learnt from destructive technologies are stressed. In particular, current proposals for an alternative agriculture are discussed and their justification is questioned. This is a generalist work, which specialists can also find interesting, not only in their own discipline but as a concise way of acquainting themselves with the state-of-the-art in associated fields. Increasing specialisation with each discipline using its own vocabulary leads inevitably to communication problems, and the need for multi-disciplinary teams makes inter-discipline communication indispensible.
Download or read book Growing Food in a Hotter Drier Land written by Gary Paul Nabhan and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book lays out a variety of practical ways to prepare for a changing climate by paying attention to soil, water harvesting, types of crops planted, and ways to protect pollinators.
Download or read book Arid Lands in Transition written by Harold E. Dregne and published by Advancement of Science. This book was released on 1970 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agricola Aridus written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Water related Technologies for Sustainable Agriculture in Arid semiarid Lands written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surface Energy Balance in Arid Lands Agriculture 1960 61 Classic Reprint written by Cornelius H. M. Van Bavel and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Surface Energy Balance in Arid Lands Agriculture, 1960-61 Four major experiments were carried out during the late spring of 1961. In the first a small wetted surface was observed, in the second a small ponded surface, in the third a large ponded area, and in the fourth a large wetted area. The soil was bare in all cases. In each experiment pertinent data were collected every '15 minutes for several days under near perfect and identical weather conditions, which were typified by clear skies, light winds, and low humidity. The complete body of data is now being proc essed by automatic computing, the original data having been Copied from punched tape onto punched cards. The final calculations will consist in computing surface energy balances from periods varying from 15 minutes to 24 hours. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Arid Agriculture written by B. C. Buffum and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Arid Agriculture: A Hand-Book for the Western Farmer and Stockman Arid agriculture is the agriculture of the arid region. An arid country is one in which there is a small amount of rainfall. The word rainfall ashere used means the total precipita tion during the year, including rain, snow, sleet, and hail. A small amount of rainfall means an amount which used to be considered insuffi cient for the raising of field crops without the artificial application of water. The line between possible farming by natural rainfall and impos sible farming with natural moisture was for merly somewhat definitely fixed. More than twenty-five inches of precipitation in a year was considered sufficient for the production of gen eral crops. In places where between twenty-five inches of rain and fifteen inches occurs farming was considered uncertain, so regions receiving this amount of moisture were classed as sub humid, or semi-arid. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Plants for Arid Lands written by G.E. Wickens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic plants have been defined by SEPASAT as those plants that are utilised either directly or indirectly for the benefit of Man. Indirect usage includes the needs of Man's livestock and the maintenance of the environment; the benefits may be domestic, commercial or aesthetic. Economic plants constitute a large and so far uncalculated percentage of the quarter of a million higher plants in the World today. However, it has been calculated that 10% (25 000) of these species are now on the verge of extinction and extinction means that a genetic resource that could be of benefit to Man will be lost for ever. Furthermore, for every species lost an estimated 10-30 other dependent organisms are also doomed. Fewer than 1 per cent of the World's plants have been sufficiently well studied for a true evaluation of the potential floral wealth awaiting discovery, not only in the rain forests, which man is now actively destroying at a rate of 20 ha a minute, but also in the very much neglected dry areas of the World.
Download or read book Report on the Climatic and Agricultural Features and the Agricultural Practice and Needs of the Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope with Notes on Arizona and New Mexico 1882 written by Eugene Woldemar Hilgard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-28 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Climatic and Agricultural Features and the Agricultural Practice and Needs of the Arid Regions of the Pacific Slope, With Notes on Arizona and New Mexico, 1882: Made Under the Direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture In the winter of 1869 J. T. Stratton planted 43 acres of E. Globulus or blue gum, and two of E. Viminalis or red gum; seedlings of same season, 8 by 8, or to the acre. Cultivation given at first, but no irrigation. The trees are now from 80 to 100 feet high, the tallest 100 feet, and 2 feet in diameter 3 feet above the ground; some larger have been cut down. No damage has ever been done by frosts or northers. The past season 20 acres have been cleared; their yield was 600 cords of cord-wood, 130 of butts and roots. In 1876, the Central Pacific Railroad Company got 40 ties for trial, and the telegraph company bought 800 poles for trial. The wood has not proved durable for these uses. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Wyoming as an Agricultural State Address on the Reclamationof the Arid Lands Before the Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce Jan written by Elwood Mead and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Wyoming as an Agricultural State; Address on the Reclamationof the Arid Lands Before the Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce, Jan: 16, 1894 But for various causes we have never got beyond the foundation. The evidences of growth are largely absent. Area Of Cultivated Land. One can travel, or could last summer, over every mile of operated railway in the state, a distance of over one thousand miles, without seeng a field of wheat. The census report of 1890 says that this county, with its million dollar investment in irrigation works, managed to grow thirty-nine acres of wheat. Albany county grew six acres and Carbon county fifty-six acres. The three most populous counties combined grew one hundred and one acres. In all this great State with its sixty-three million acres of laud only 19,000 acres were cultivated, about one percent of the land under ditches. In the light of facts like these it is not surprising that our agricultural standing is low; that our modest exhibit at Chicago subjected us to the charge of having had to go out of the State to procure it. One could not remain in that exhibit a day without hearing expressions of surprise and amazed conjecture as to whereabouts in the State it was produced. I speak of this because of the contrast to the reception accorded the exhibits of adjoining States. While Colorado's magnificent display of farm products was a constant subject and commendation it occasioned no surprise because it was in accord with popular anticipation, and the same was true of the superb collection of cereals from Montana, but when the report went around that Wyoming wheat had scored the highest percentage of any in the building there was a general agreement that the State was traveling outside its class. The same result occurred a few years ago when Wyoming won the first prize in a national potato contest. The winner of the second prize demanded an investigation and wrote to the journal conducting the contest that the result showed fraud on its face because any one who knew anything of Wyoming knew it had no farmers and no farms. I could consume all the time that I shall tax your patience with similar illustrations, showing that our actual agricultural production is small and our reputation poor. I think, however, that enough has been said on this unpleasant feature of irrigation development in this State. It has only been referred to as a prelude to a discussion of the causes for this condition of affairs. Why is it that with equal natural advantages, with as ready access to home seekers, this State has fallen so far behind its neighbors in population and agricultural development? Why is it that the census of 1890 shows that Colorado cultivated under irrigation, two hundred and sixty-five thousand acres of land, Utah one hundred and fifteen thousand acres, Montana seventy-five thousand acres, while Wyoming dragged along at the tail of the procession, with only nineteen thousand acres. This result has not been due to superiority in natural conditions. It has been due in part to lack of organization and lack of interest in securing emigrants, but in a greater part to unfavorable legislative conditions, which have stood as a bar to success wherever organization and effort have been put forth. Before entering upon an explanation of these factors I wish to state that the reclamation and settlement of an arid State requires agencies and aids not required in the settlement of states like Kansas and Nebraska. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
