The distribution, importance and biology of the important cotton pests of Moc̦ambique

Title: The distribution, importance and biology of the important cotton pests of Moc̦ambique
Creator: Da Silva Barbosa, António Jorge
Subject: Cotton -- Diseases and pests -- Moc̦ambique
Date: 1952
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSc
Identifier: vital:5844
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1010977
Identifier: Cotton -- Diseases and pests -- Moc̦ambique
Description: Up to the second half of the eighteenth century the most important fibres in the world were wool, flax and silk. But the Industrial Revolution in England, together with the invention of the Cotton gin by Whitney in 1793, soon gave cotton the first place amongst all the important fibers in world's textile industry. Although some attempts were made, both in Angola and Mozambique to cultivate cotton since remote days -- as far back as the American Civil War, when market prices suffered an important rise no serious efforts were made to grow this crop before the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in 1910, when some definite legislation was passed to encourage the development of this culture.
Format: 159 pages, pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University, Faculty of Science, Zoology and Entomology
Language: English
Rights: Da Silva Barbosa, António Jorge

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