Fernando López Tuero
Fernando López Tuero | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1857 |
| Died | 1907 Puerto Rican |
| Occupation(s) | Agricultural scientist and agronomist |
Fernando López Tuero
Agricultural epidemic
In the latter part of the 19th Century, an epidemic was affecting the agricultural industry of Puerto Rico. Among the crops affected was the sugar cane, whose main product "sugar" was vital to Puerto Rico's economy.
The Phyllophaga is a very large
López Tuero's scientific investigations have been included in Madre Teresa Cortés Zavala's "Fernando López Tuero, La Revista de Agricultura, Industria y Comercio de Puerto Rico y el progreso agrícola de 1885-1898" written for the Escuela de Historia; Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo.[5]
Written works
López Tuero voiced strong beliefs about the function of a state, saying it was mainly to protect people's private property. His views were drafted into the 1878 Municipal Law which organized many of the police functions around just that, protect the large farms of landowners in the countryside.[6] Some of his works include:[7]
- Imagen del editor Unitarismo De La Patria Espanola: La Descentralizacion, El Regionalismo, Portugal, Gibraltar, Sintesis Del Unitarismo (ISBN 9781146505253)
- Valoración de materias agrícolas
- El chacolí santanderino en los siglos XIII al XIX
- El hombre
- Enfermedad de la caña de azúcar y modo de combartirla
- Estado moral de los factores de la producción en Cuba y Puerto Rico
- Café y piña de America[8]
- Puerto Rico: Tipografía del "Boletin Mercantil", 1895[9]
See also
- List of Puerto Ricans
- Puerto Rican scientists and inventors
Notes
- Spanish name, the first or paternal surnameis López and the second or maternal family name is Tuero.
References
- ^ a b c Rigau Pérez, José G. "Historia de la investigación científica en Puerto Rico". CienciaPR. Archived from the original on 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2008-10-04.
- ^ "El aroma económicamente embrujador del café y el olvido de la buena dieta". Archived from the original on June 23, 2007. Retrieved 2007-06-23.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Retrieved October 4, 2008 - ^ Entomological Society of America (1913). Journal of Economic Entomology. Entomological Society of America. p. 252. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ^ "June Beetle / June Bug - Cirrus Digital Imaging". Red Planet Inc. Retrieved 2008-06-21.
- ^ "Seminario Internacional: "Los caminos del progreso en el Caribe hispano contemporáneo: economía, ciencia y cultura"". Archived from the original on 2012-01-10. Retrieved 2011-08-21.
- ISBN 978-0-8032-1537-5. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ^ Written works
- ISBN 978-1-4696-0882-2. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ^ Meyer, H.H.B. (1910). Select list of references on sugar: chiefly in its economic aspects. Govt. Print. Off. p. 214. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
Further reading
- Report of the Puerto Rico Agricultural Experiment Station. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1914. Retrieved 12 October 2019.