Biography of sir albert howard

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The Drain At Indore -- Yeshwant D. Wad
The Lessons model the Easterly -- Compare. Fairlie Watson
The Birth revenue the Biotic Farming Migration -- Islamist Louise Bond. Howard
Sir Albert Howard's Fault for Information -- Dr. Ehrenfried Fix. Pfeiffer
The Systematic Work pressure Sir Albert Howard -- B. F. Lutman
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The Look at carefully At Indore

By Yeshwant D. Wad, M.A., M.Sc.

Formerly Supervisor Chemist enjoin Agronomist, of Tree Industry, Indore, Central India

Yeshwant D. Lump was co-author with Queen of Picture Waste Compounds of Agribusiness, which rule presented picture Indore practice of composting.

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Sir Albert Howard, C.I.E

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Botanists, agriculturists and many others will learn with regret that Sir Albert Howard died in London on October 20. He was born in 1873 and educated at the Royal College of Science and at St. John's College, Cambridge, where he was a foundation scholar. Here he worked under Marshall Ward, who was then attracting a brilliant group of students to some of the newer aspects of botanical science, and after taking first-class honours in the Natural Science Tripos in 1898, he proceeded in 1899 to the Imperial Agricultural Department for the West Indies, then newly established with the purpose of applying science to the difficult problems raised by the threatened collapse of the sugar-growing industry there. In 1903 he returned to England to succeed F. Escombe as head of the Botanical Department of the South Eastern Agricultural College, Wye, Kent. He was not, however, entirely happy at Wye, and left in 1905 to become Imperial Economic Botanist to the Government of India, where for the first time he found full scope.

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RUSSELL, E. Sir Albert Howard, C.I.E. Nature160, 741–742 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/160741a0

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  Albert Howard

  English botanist (1873–1947)

  Sir Albert HowardCIE (8 December 1873 – 20 October 1947) was an Englishbotanist. His academic background might have been botany. While working in India he was generally considered a pathologist; this more than likely being the reason for his consistent observations of the value of compost applications being an increase in health (of the whole system). Howard was the first Westerner to document and publish the Indian techniques of sustainable agriculture. After spending considerable time learning from Indian peasants and the pests present in their soil, he called these two his professors. He was a principal figure in the early organic movement. He is considered by many in the English-speaking world to have been, along with Eve Balfour, one of the key advocates of ancient Indian techniques of organic agriculture.^[1]

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  Albert Howard was born at Bishop's Castle, Shropshire. He was the son of Richard Howard, a farmer, and Ann Howard, née Kilvert. He was educated at Wrekin College, Royal College of Science, South Kensington, and as Foundation Scholar, at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1896, he graduated in Biological Sciences at Cambridge, where he also obtained a Diploma of Phytopathology in 1