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... 20 LOW TEMPERATURE STRESS Summary of Program One and a half billion people now subsist on insufficient diets. There are enough female children in the world today to raise the world population by the year 2,000 from the present level of 3.28 billion to 7.4 billion.
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... 21 Specific Problems Culture of Crops in the Highlands of the Andean Plateau The major problem related to producing crops in the highlands of the Andean plateau is the occurrence of killing frosts at both the beginning and the end of the growing season. Countries affected include Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Argentina (northwestern part)
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