Agriculture in the Tropics

Part I. The Preliminaries to Agriculture: 1. Land and soil; 2. Climate; 3. Population and labour; 4. Transport and capital; 5. Drainage and irrigation; 6. Tools, tillage, manuring, chopping, etc.; 7. Plant life in the tropics. Acclimatisation; 8. Agriculture in the tropics in primitive times, and its gradual change; Part II. The Principal Cultivations of the Tropics: 9. Rice and other cereals and food plants; 10. Sugar; 11. Teas; 12. Coffee, cacao or chocolate, kola, etc.; 13. Coconuts and other palms; 14. Spices; 15. Fruits and vegetables; 16. Tobacco, opium, hemp; 17. Cinchona and other drugs; 18. Fibre-yielding plants; 19. Dye stuffs and tanning substances; 20. Oil-yielding plants; 21. Indiarubber, guttapercha, and camphor; 22. Mixed garden cultivation by tropical natives; 23. The diseases of plants in the tropics, and their treatment; 24. Stock; Part III. Agriculture in the Tropics (General): 25. Village or peasant agriculture; 26. The relations of the peasant to the land and crops, cultural systems, etc.; 27. The financing of village agriculture, and the provision of local markets; 28. The crops and methods of peasant agriculture, and their possibilities of improvement; 29. Education of the peasant, and its bearing upon agricultural progress; 30. Capitalist or estate agriculture; 31. The agricultural needs of the planting enterprise. Summary of Part III; Part IV. Agricultural Organisation and Policy: 32. Organisation of agriculture; 33. Agricultural policy; 34. Departments of agriculture.