| View Larger Image | Healthy Crops: A New Agricultural Revolution | Paperbackby Francis Chaboussou (Author)
| List Price: | $19.95 | | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours |
| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Jon Carpenter Publishing | | Page Count: | 234 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2005 | | Sales Rank: | 990,156th |
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EDITORIAL REVIEWS |
Product Description
This work powerfully asserts the idea that rather than using pesticides, the key to helping crops resist attacks from pests is to improve their strength through natural processes. Many of industrial agriculture's fundamental principles for fighting disease, in particular the reliance on pesticides and fertilizers, are explained and convincingly challenged and a new set of guiding principles for an ecological agricultural system are presented as a genuine alternative to the widespread use of chemicals. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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Clears up a lot of misunderstandings by Jana D. Bogs (Fort Collins, Colorado)  5 Stars
July 15, 2007
Good book for understanding how agriculture really works. You can get the gist of it in a few overview pages or delve deeply.
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