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- Editors:
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M. J. Wilson
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Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, UK
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Zhenli He
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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Xiaoe Yang
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
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Table of contents (29 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xiii
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Colour Plate
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- M. J. Wilson, Zhenli He, Xiaoe Yang
Pages 1-3
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The Nature, Properties, Distribution and Classification of Red Soils in China: Synopsis and Overview
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- V. C. Baligar, N. K. Fageria, H. Eswaran, M. J. Wilson, Zhenli He
Pages 7-27
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- Zhenli He, Mingkui Zhang, M. J. Wilson
Pages 29-33
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- Mingkui Zhang, M. J. Wilson, Zhenli He
Pages 35-61
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- Mingkui Zhang, Zhenli He, M. J. Wilson
Pages 63-87
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- Yuangen Yang, Congqiang Liu, Zhenli He, Keneng Yuan
Pages 89-100
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Constraints to Crop Production on the Red Soils of China: Synopsis and Overview
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Front Matter
Pages 101-102
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- Zhenli He, Mingkui Zhang, M. J. Wilson
Pages 103-110
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- Jun Lu, Zhizhen Huang, Yong Xu
Pages 129-136
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- E. Milne, Wu Bozhi, M. A. Fullen, T. J. Hocking, D. J. Mitchell
Pages 137-150
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- Jun Lu, Yunlong Liu, Yongqiang Chen
Pages 151-158
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Management, Utilization and Sustainability of Red Soils in China: Overview and Synopsis
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Front Matter
Pages 159-162
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- Zhenli He, Mingkui Zhang, M. J. Wilson
Pages 163-170
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- Xiaoe Yang, Weimu Wang, Zhenqian Ye, Zhenli He, Virupax C. Baligar
Pages 171-218
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- N. K. Fageria, E. M. Castro, V. C. Baligar
Pages 219-237
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- Jun Lu, Zhizhen Huang, Yong Xu
Pages 239-248
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- Xiangyun Chu, Zhenli He, Changyong Huang
Pages 249-254
About this book
The red soils of China are typical in their chemical, physical and mineralogical characteristics of red soils in other tropical and sub-tropical areas of the world, particularly in South America, Africa and south-east Asia. For the most part, these soils are highly weathered and inherently infertile. They are acidic, nutrient deficient, poor in organic matter and have a low water-holding and supplying capacity. They cannot sustain arable cropping systems without the most careful management and are highly susceptible to soil erosion, particularly on sloping land. It is the purpose of this book to present recent research showing how the problems associated with using the red soils in China for sustainable agricultural production can be overcome, using a variety of traditional and novel approaches. In principle, these approaches should be useful in other tropical and sub-tropical countries faced with the problem of making the best use of their fragile red soil resources. The term "in principle" is used deliberately because, of course, the different red soil countries invariably operate within dissimilar socio-economic frameworks. At the present time, China may be considered to be in the process of an "industrial revolution", rather like that that took place in Britain in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Editors and Affiliations
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Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen, UK
M. J. Wilson
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Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, People’s Republic of China
Zhenli He,
Xiaoe Yang
