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This book is designed to present those principles and techniques
for land appraisal which are applicable to all developing
countries. Examples of specific situations in which these
techniques have been or might be adopted are taken primarily from
monsoonal and equatorial Asia. It is in this region that the
land/food/population problem is most acute. It is also the writer's
region of specialization; over the past ten years out of a total of
some twenty-five years working in or closely concerned with Asia,
an attempt has been made to examine the major problems ofland
potential in relation to rural economy and nutrition in the whole
region, and in particular to show to what extent its different
parts resemble or differ from each other. The geographical scope
comprises mainland southern, southeast and east Asia, from Pakistan
to the People's Republic of China and Korea, with the insular
monsoonal and equatorial lands of Sri Lanka, Indonesia, East
Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan and Japan (part). International and
bilateral agencies and specialists outside Asia repeatedly insist
that Asia must learn to feed itself from the produce of its own
land, or from imported foods paid for by the exports of primary and
secondary commodities and of manufactured products to the developed
world.
1.1 Objective and scope These chapters are not intended as a
treatise on range management of tropical grazing lands, nor on the
agronomy of sown pastures and cultivated fodder crops, aspects of
applied science that are only one stage above scientific farming
and use of land. An attempt is made to present the vegetation
sciences, or botany and ecology in their widest aspects, as the
essential background for their application in economic land use and
plant and animal husbandry. The basic thesis is that science is
global, but that its practical application is restricted to
specific biological and socio economic habitats. The region covered
is termed the intertropical zone. This comprises the equatorial
latitudes, the tropics and subtropics. It is not only that part of
the globe lying between latitudes 30 Degrees north and south of the
Equator, as proposed by some writers (DAVIES, W., 1960; repeated by
DAVIES & SKIDMORE, 1966). Rather is it those regions of the
world in which, at the lower elevations, certain families and
members of the Gramineae and Leguminosae grow wild or can be
cultivated. It may be a matter for discussion whether these plants
in their wild communities or sown or planted crop mixtures are
better indicators of a biological environment than the instruments
and criteria of the meteorologists.
Additional Contributors Include H. A. Borthwick, Erwin Bunning And
Others. Foreword By Kenneth V. Thimann. Lotsya, A Biological
Miscellany, V1.
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