Agriculture in the Tropics An Elementary Treatise [Paperback]

This 1922 book is intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics.First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. This volume will be illuminating for anyone with an interest in agriculture, botany, or the colonial mindset.First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. This volume will be illuminating for anyone with an interest in agriculture, botany, or the colonial mindset.First published in 1922, this is the third edition of a 1909 original intended to provide the general reader with an understanding of agricultural resources within the tropics. The book is structured around descriptions of these resources and their potential for future development, numerous illustrative figures are also included. Because the text is written from a broadly colonial perspective, such development is largely seen in terms of an engagement between the modernising influence of dominant states and the 'primitive' environments over which they hold sway. This volume will be illuminating for anyone with an interest in agriculture, botany, or the colonial mindset.Part I. The Preliminaries to Agriculture: 1. Land and soil; 2. Climate; 3. Population and labour; 4. Transport and capital; 5. Drainage and irrigation; 6. Tools, tillage, manuring, chopping, etc.; 7. Plant life in the tropics. Acclimatisation; 8. Agriculture in the tropics in primitive times, and its gradual change; Part II. The Principal Cultivations of the Tropics: 9. Rice and other cereals and food plants; 10. Sugar; 11. Teas; 12. Coffee, cacao or chocolate, kola, etc.; 13. Coconuts and other palms; 14. Spices; 15. Fruits and vegetables; 16. Tobacco, opium, hemp; 17. Cinchona and other drugs; 18. Fibre-yielding planlóF