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The Food-Producing Crops in the Tropics


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1 Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Sibpore, Howrah, India
 

The paper deals with some aspects of tropical agriculture, together with notes on the origin, diffusion, and domestication of important food-producing crops in the tropics of Old and New World. The utilization of tropical fungi and sea-weeds as sources of human food is briefly discussed. It is concluded that in light of current world food-shortages, improvement of the established tropical food-crops is most necessary at the present time.
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J. K. Maheshwari
Central National Herbarium, Botanical Survey of India, Sibpore, Howrah, India

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The paper deals with some aspects of tropical agriculture, together with notes on the origin, diffusion, and domestication of important food-producing crops in the tropics of Old and New World. The utilization of tropical fungi and sea-weeds as sources of human food is briefly discussed. It is concluded that in light of current world food-shortages, improvement of the established tropical food-crops is most necessary at the present time.