Agriculture: A Very Short Introduction
- ISBN-10
- 0191792934
- ISBN-13
- 9780191792939
- Series
- Agriculture
- Category
- Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016
- Authors
- Paul William Brassley, R. J. Soffe
Description
From the large corporation using enormous machines in the USA, to the woman with her hoe and her plot of cassava in Mozambique, to a Chinese collective farm worker in the rice fields, agriculture is essential for humanity to eat. This book looks at the many different types of agriculture and considers the challenges facing farmers today.
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- 2017-12-12
- 142 pages
- Paperback
- Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
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