Tropical Agriculture A Key to the World Food Crises.

The article discusses the world food crisis as the most serious problem in the tropics, and cites the importance of tropical agriculture in the zone. The author highlights the tropical agriculture research on cash and plantation crops, and informs the presence of great opportunities for biologists to make significant contributions on food shortage prevention. He considers the increase of food production as the most realistic short-range method of solving the crisis. He believes that tropical food production can be increased through conventional agriculture by overseas technical programs, but he claims that training the young people in developing countries is the best method.