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| Tropical-Horticulture.org provides the largest up-to-date online searchable information on tropical horticulture on the Internet. Search 179,627 references including an exclusive collection of references to bamboo. Tropical-Horticulture.org constantly updates this pool with new information as it becomes available. � Last update: 05 Mar 2007 |
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| Agro-technique development and deployment | ||
| Tropical-Horticulture.org covers technology under field and protected cultivation in tropical horticulture. This includes crop and soil management practices such as plant propagation and seedling nursery management, transplanting, irrigation, fertilization, drip fertigation and plant protection. |
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| Crop and soil management | ||
| Tropical-Horticulture.org determines the plant processes responsible for growth and development of crop plants thereby providing adapted site-specific solutions in tropical horticulture. |  |
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| Nutrients and fertilization | ||
| Leaching and rapid mineralization of organic matter by high temperatures cause great fluctuations in nutrient availability in tropical horticulture. |  |
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| Cultivation media and substrate | ||
| Leaching and rapid mineralization of organic matter by high temperatures cause great fluctuations in nutrient availability in tropical horticulture. |  |
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| Cropping systems | ||
| Highly intensive cropping sequences and intercrop combinations guarantee maximal use of limited space particularly under peri-urban conditions in the tropics. |  |
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| Environmental engineering | ||
| Biological nutrient removal with horticultural crops combines hydroponics principles with existing septic and grey water disposal technology for treating industrial, community and household wastewater. |  |
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| Postharvest | ||
| Tropical-Horticulture.org develops and evaluates postharvest technologies for maintaining quality and extending shelf life of horticultural produce. Techniques include harvest, sterilization, packaging, cooling and storage. | ||