Advances in Tea Agronomy

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-107-09581-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 466 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1010 g

Tea is big business. After water, tea is believed to be the most widely consumed beverage in the world. And yet, as productivity increases, the real price of tea declines while labour costs continue to rise. Tea remains a labour intensive industry. With a distinguished career spanning over 50 years and rich experience in diverse crops, Mike Carr is eminently qualified to indulge in an intelligent discourse on tea agronomy. In addition to a comprehensive review of the principal tea growing regions worldwide in terms of structure, productivity and principal constraints, he has attempted to question and seeks to find the associated experimental evidence needed to support current and future crop management practices. The book will assist all those involved in the tea industry to become creative thinkers and to question accepted practices. International in content, it will appeal to practitioners and students from tea growing countries worldwide.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carr, M. K. V.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Ackerbaukunde, Pflanzenbau
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Landwirtschaftliche Bewässerung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Botanik Pflanzenökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Landwirtschaftliche Kleinbetriebe
• Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword V. S. Sharma; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Karibuni! Welcome to you all!; 2. The world of tea: a geriatric problem; 3. A changing climate: stay cool; 4. Taxonomic delight: only plant the best; 5. March of the clones: to breed or not to breed, that was the question Hereward Corley and Gabriel Kiplangat Tuwei; 6. Planting and replanting: but, whoever said this was simple?; 7. Creating a framework: a framework for analysis; 8. Roots exposed: life underground; 9. We are only growing leaves: source or sink?; 10. Plucks shoots and leaves: looking after the children; 11. Machine assisted harvesting: the need of the hour; 12. Intelligent guesswork: we can only build on what has gone before M. K. V. Carr and Christopher John Flowers; 13. Pores for thought: gaseous exchange; 14. More pores for thought: and the answer lies in the soil; 15. Water productivity: more crop per drop; 16. A shady business: teas need trees; 17. A nice cup of tea: who decides?; 18. Fair trade: smallholders are beautiful; 19. The agronomist's report: a synthesis; 20. Support services: are they sustainable?; Annex to Chapter 3: weather summary for tea growing regions M. K. V. Carr, Matthew Upson and Marta Perez Ortola; Glossary; References; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Carr, M. K. V.
Mike Carr is Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Water Management at Cranfield University, UK. He has over 45 years of experience in the management and delivery of international research, education, training and consultancy in agriculture and natural resource management. He is the author of Advances in Irrigation Agronomy: Plantation Crops (Cambridge, 2012), Advances in Irrigation Agronomy: Fruit Crops (Cambridge, 2014) and former editor in chief of the Cambridge University Press journal Experimental Agriculture.