Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture
Conservation Tillage and Cropping Innovation: Constructing the New Culture of Agriculture
Συγγραφέας: C. Milton Coughenour, Shankariah Chamala
ISBN: 9780813819471
Σελίδες: 360
Σχήμα: 17 X 24
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό
Έτος έκδοσης: 2001
With thorough documentation of the conservation tillage and cropping revolution, this book features chapters on: The Social Construction of Innovative Networks; Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension; The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future.
Table of Contents
Foreword;
Preface;
Acknowledgments;
Introduction;
Conceptualizing System Innovation: Social Construction of Conservation Tillage and Cropping;
Plow Culture in the United States and Australia;
Farming in the 1950s: The Driving Forces;
The Social Construction of Innovative Networks;
Social Construction of New Tillage and Cropping Systems in the united States;
The Construction of New Tillage Systems in Australia;
The Spread of Conservation Tillage in Kentucky and Queensland;
Reconstructing the Farm Landscape: The Spread of Conservation Tillage in the United States;
Planning Conservation Cropping: Implications for Research, Development, and Extension;
The New Agriculture of Conservation Cropping: Present and Future;
Bibliography;
Acronyms;
Index.
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