This handbook is a breakthrough in the documentation of proven methods in flatland and hillside vegetable production in the tropics. It is written with special reference to vegetable farming in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago,

but is applicable to similar climate conditions elsewhere. It emphasizes the practical aspects of vegetable production and answers the question ‘how to?’, offering the novice as well as the knowledgeable an organized approach to vegetable farming.

At last, here is the comprehensive and in-depth practice of field vegetable production that you have been waiting on. The author provides some unique techniques on hillside farming gleaned especially from his practical work in this form of vegetable production on the hillsides of Maraval, Trinidad.

For the export-minded farmer, there are revolutionary ideas on large-scale vegetable production. Much appeal surrounds this area at present by virtue of the increasing demand for exotic tropical fruits and vegetables in foreign markets.

Joseph Vernon Duncan has had considerable training and experience in the theory and practice of agriculture, particularly in the area of field vegetable production and Farm Management.

He is a graduate of the Eastern Caribbean Institute of Agriculture and Forestry, now UTT. He holds a BSc degree in Agricultural Science from the University of the West Indies, and a Master of Science Degree in Agricultural Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. The author also worked with the Ministry of Food Production, in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, for a period of 18 years, first in the Agricultural Extension Division, as Agricultural County Officer, St. George; then as Agricultural Planning Officer II and Agricultural Planning Officer III in the Agricultural Planning Division.

He is married to Joycelyn for the past 48 years and have three adult children Simone, Verneille, and Curtis.