Improving agricultural practices: Science and the Australian sugarcane grower, 1864-1915

Agricultural History

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-33

  Griggs, Peter ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CROP YIELD; SUGAR CANE;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; QUEENSLAND;

ARUNDINARIA; SACCHARUM HYBRID CULTIVAR;

EID: 1542610543     PISSN: 00021482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/ah.2004.78.1.1     Document Type: Article

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