Soil fertility decline in the tropics : with case studies on plantations /

• Main Author: Hartemink, Alfred E., 1964- (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2003.
• Subjects: Soil fertility > Tropics.; Soil degradation > Tropics.; Agriculture > Case studies. > Tropics; Field Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Cropping Systems.; Soil Chemistry and Mineralogy.; Soil Surveys and Land Evaluation.; Soil Fertility.; Silviculture and Forest Management.; Land Resources.; Pollution and Degradation.; Demography.; Saccharum.; Saccharum officinarum.; Case studies.; Cropping systems.; Forest plantations.; Land management.; Land use.; Plantations.; Population growth.; Soil degradation.; Soil fertility.; Soil resources.; Soil test values.; Spatial variation.; Sugarcane.; Sustainability.; Temporal variation.; Tropics.; Electronic books.
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This book, containing 12 chapters including an introduction which focuses on soil fertility under different land use systems in the tropics. Chapter 2 contains a global literature review on human population growth, soil resources of the tropics, tropical land use and management, soil degradation and...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Human Population and Soil Degradation
• Plantation Agriculture
• Soil Fertility Decline : Theoretical Considerations
• Annual Crops
• Perennial Crop Plantations
• Forest Plantations
• Sugarcane Plantations
• Case 1 : Sugarcane Plantation, Papua New Guinea
• Case 2 : Sisal Plantations, Tanzania
• Synthesis
• Summary and Conclusions.