Soil Diversity in the Tropics: Implications for Agricultural Development

2015 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Eswaran ◽  
J. Kimble ◽  
T. Cook ◽  
F. H. Beinroth
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Soil Diversity ◽  
The Tropics

scholarly journals A Precocious Appetite: Industrial Agriculture and the Fertiliser Revolution in Java's Colonial Cane Fields, c. 1880–1914

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Roger Knight
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Sugar Cane ◽  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Industrial Agriculture ◽  
Work Processes ◽  
Industrial Work ◽  
Colonial Economy ◽  
The Tropics ◽  
And Diffusion ◽  
Colonial Science

Late colonial sugar cane production in Java was characterised by the heavy use of (chemical) fertiliser in tandem with labour-intensive techniques and industrial work processes in the field. This article provides a useful corrective to an overemphasis on the extractive nature of the colonial economy of sugar and shows the truly industrial nature of plantation production. For students of colonial science and agriculture, the situation has additional ramifications, relating both to the role and ‘diffusion’ of scientific knowledge and to the historical dimensions of agricultural development in ‘the tropics’.

Soil Diversity in the Tropics

1991 ◽  
pp. 315-389 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.D. Richter ◽  
L.I. Babbar
Keyword(s):  
Soil Diversity ◽  
The Tropics
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