Tasmania is an important potato production area of Australia. Its unique combination of climate and soils help determine the scale of operations and shape the diverse farming system practiced by growers. This chapter briefly describes Tasmania's geography, the farming systems of which potato production...
This four-hour miniseries tells the story of Ikey Solomon, his wife Hannah and his mistress Mary, who get caught in the criminal world of early 19th-century London and the convict settlement of Van Diemen's Land in Australia. Read more:Plot summary ...
Potato is produced on all continents except Antarctica and is the world’s third most important food crop. Potato production has increased dramaticall
Bonilla a la Vista, one of the most popular brands of potato chips in Galicia, has announced through its blog that they have recently made the first shipment of tins of potato chips to Australia, and that they sold out in just three weeks. The second order is already underway, as reporte...
The dominant concept of technologic intensification of agriculture since the era of "green revolution" led to many negative consequences in economic, ecolo... B Boincean - Proceedings of the 19th World Congress of Soil Science: Soil solutions for a changing world, Brisbane, Australia, 1-6 August...
This paper attempts to describe the regional characteristics of China's potato production and to find out their main contributing factors. Based on the dynamic computation and analysis of statistics of the respective proportion of the potato production of 25 provinces in the total amount of China du...
Sweet potato is by far the most important crop in New Guinea. It strongly dominates agricultural production in the highland areas, and this was already the case when Europeans discovered the Central New Guinea highlands during the early 1900s. The dense human population encountered appeared to be...
Late blight, caused by the oomycete Phytophthora infestans, continues to be the main biotic constraint of potato production. Annual losses have been estimated to be about €6.1 billion, with major consequences to food security, especially in developing countries. Symptoms of the disease can be seen...
• Asia-Pacific (Vietnam, China, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines, Korea, Thailand, India, Indonesia, and Australia) • Europe (Turkey, Germany, Russia UK, Italy, France, etc.) • North America (the United States, Mexico, and Canada.) ...
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