Talk:Tropical agriculture

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I may work on this later, but let me note that this page requires cleanup because of spelling mistakes and the poor grammar employed, and it appears quite POV in some sections (eg, "It would be wiser to plant the indiginous crops and extend the market of these in the west." "These above lessons should -again- to some, used in tropical agriculture.")Biruitorul 22:07, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

It says as an example of a tropical plant crop "morus alba." This is the mulberry tree, which is a temperate tree. I think it is wrong to put it under tropical agriculture. What do you think? Saritamackita 21:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Morus alba

If I am no mistaken, the mulberry tree (the white one, used for silk production by providing food for insects which' cocoon is used) originally came from China (via the silk route). China aldough partly temperate is I think also Sub-Tropical, aldough I am not certain of the place where the mulberry was planted and of the crop itself.

[edit] Major constraints- mild winters

In the article there is talk about mild winters and the idea that tropical plants cannot endure the attacks from pests from the moment at which they start to grow. This offcourse should be discarded as:

• plants native to the environment are used to this and are well adapted against it, if they were not than there would be no vegetable life in the tropics

This offcourse is not the case if not-native plants are used, yet the article does not state which kind of plants are referred to.

Please adjust or discard this from the article.

87.64.202.119 12:40, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

PS: in the tropics and subtropics no winter exists, only wet and dry seasons so this too is fault

[edit] Split up of article

The article "tropical agriclture" seems to have lost its meaning since agriculture is the same everywhere and whether its tropical or temperate depends on the crops used. As these crops have all been split up correctly (in list of herbs, list of fruit, ...) it may be best to split up this article aswell, discarting the incorrect term/article "tropical agriculture"

Thanks in advance

It’s a valid term. Google returns 1,280,000 hits for "tropical agriculture".

Also there’s the International Center for Tropical Agriculture [1] and the US Government maintains the Tropical Agriculture Research Station [2]. The University of Florida maintains the Center For Tropical Agriculture [3], and you can even take courses from Cornell University on the subject [4].

No split. Brimba 04:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)