Controlled Environments: Wet Wheat
Series
- Series Name
- Living Tomorrow
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 4
- Summary
- COI synopsis: Different soils have different optimum drainage capacities. Now scientists are testing the growth of wheat in all types of soil and drainage conditions. And they can do this only with the help of a new mobile greenhouse in which alternatives in climate can be simulated and controlled. The benefit for agriculture will be a sharp cut in cash and crop waste.
- Keywords
- Agriculture; Science and technology; Engineering; Inventions and discoveries
- Written sources
- COI Microfilm Roll 52 [BFI National Archive] Used for synopsis
- COI Reference
- MI 1458/193
- Credits:
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- Sponsor
- Central Office of Information (COI)
- Sponsor
- Foreign & Commonwealth Office
- Cutter
- John Wilson
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- British Film Institute (BFI)
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How to cite this record
'Controlled Environments: Wet Wheat', Living Tomorrow Issue No. 193. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/325826 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)