Plant Production on the Threshold of a New Century

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Opening Session

   1. Crop Production on the Threshold of a New Century

      • J. C. Zadoks

      Pages 1-8

3. Sessions on Farm Management Aspects

   1. Reflections on the Economic and Ecological Sustainability of Modern Plant Production

      • G. Weinschenck

      Pages 9-22

   2. Farm Economic Modelling of Integrated Plant Production

      • G. A. A. Wossink, J. A. Renkema

      Pages 23-36

   3. Innovative Research with Ecological Pilot Farmers

      • P. Vereijken, H. Kloen

      Pages 37-56

   4. Plants of the Future. Can Past History Teach Any Lessons?

      • Joan Thirsk

      Pages 57-70

   5. Farming Systems Characterization through Cropping Patterns ; experiences from lowland vegetable production in Indonesia

      • J. S. Buurma

      Pages 71-76

   6. Economic and Ecological Potentials of Sustainable Agriculture in South-India

      • A. De Jager, E. Van Der Werf

      Pages 77-83

   7. The Use of Farm Economic Modelling to Determine the Influence of Macsharry on the Development towards Sustainability

      • C. Van Der Houwen

      Pages 85-91

   8. Review and Application of the Farming Styles Concept: The Case of Dutch Arable Farming

      • J. H. Van Niejenhuis, G. A. A. Wossink

      Pages 93-100

   9. Economic Aspects of Environmental Policy in the Mushroom Industry in the Netherlands

      • A. J. J. Van Roestel, J. P. G. Gerrits, L. J. L. D. Van Griensven

      Pages 101-108

   10. Micropropagation, an Essential Tool in Modern Agriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Plant Breeding

       • R. L. M. Pierik, H. J. Scholten

       Pages 109-114

   11. Introduction to a Bio-Economic Production Model for Sugar Beet Growing

       • A. B. Smit, J. H. Van Niejenhuis, P. C. Struik

       Pages 115-122

4. Sessions on Cropping Systems Aspects

   1. The Concept of Closed Business Systems in the Dutch Glasshouse Horticulture

      • Henk J. Van Oosten

      Pages 123-135

   2. Magnitudes of Disturbance in the Evolution of Agro-Ecosystems: N-Flows in Rice-Based Systems

      • L. O. Fresco, N. De Ridder, T. J. Stomph

      Pages 137-149

   3. Durable Ecocomplexity: Beyond the Threshold of a New Century

      • R. A. A. Oldeman

      Pages 151-158

   4. Biodiversity and the World’s Food Crisis

      • Otto T. Solbrig

      Pages 159-168

   5. Von Liebig’s Law of the Minimum and Low-Input Technologies

      • Q. Paris

      Pages 169-177

   6. Nitrogen Fluxes in the Crop-Soil System of Brussels Sprouts and Leek

      • R. Booij, C. T. Enserink, A. L. Smit, A. Van Der Werf

      Pages 179-185

   7. Modelling in the Search for Balance between Inputs and Outputs in Greenhouse Cultivation

      • Hugo Challa, Ep Heuvelink, Klaas-Jan Leutscher

      Pages 187-195

Plant Production on the Threshold of a New Century describes and compares problems and frontier developments in the different sectors of plant production, integrating developments in basic plant sciences, crop science and socioeconomic science, leading to sustainable plant production. Hence the book formulates goals and constraints in policy, economy, production, environment and land use; indicates how these goals and constraints may be translated into farming styles and cropping systems; and describes how the fundamental plant sciences can contribute to the implementation of such farming styles and cropping systems.

• cropping systems
• development
• environment
• plant
• plant science

• Department of Agronomy, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  P. C. Struik

• Department of Plant Physiology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  W. J. Vredenberg

• Department of Farm Management, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  J. A. Renkema

• Department of Plant Breeding, Wageningen Agricultural University, Wageningen, The Netherlands

  J. E. Parlevliet

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