Agricultural Science

This book offers a full discussion of the issues surrounding bovine somatotropin (BST) and a comprehensive review of research findings on the proba...

Focusing on livestock development in the Maasai society of southern Kenya, this book examines factors hindering the transition of pastoralists from...

This book, based on travel notes of the author and conversations and correspondence with tomato scientists, attempts to put together in a single vo...

The contributors to this volume, based on the Agriculture Research Seminars held annually at the University of Minnesota, examine the role of gover...

For more than a decade the trend toward increased mechanization in U.S. agriculture has been the source of farm worker protests, legislative hearin...

Because of the long life of a coconut palm--sixty to eighty years--and the relatively wide spacing the plants require, every coconut grower faces t...

Agricultural trade has become an integral part of world agriculture. During the 1970s, the real growth in world agricultural trade was phenomenal. ...

This book provides the reader with a perspective on past trends and the current financial situation in agriculture. It points out the controversies...

First published in 1997, this volume asks whether Africas future is necessarily rooted in peasant agriculture. The title of this book, Farewell to ...

This book represents the proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Cereals. The purpose of this meeting is to r...

This book summarizes the major environmental hazards confronted in tropical agriculture and presents specific management options that could be used...

This book deals with the basic principles of husbandry, feeding, housing, health, behaviour, economics and welfare. It explains relevant aspects of...

The book provides in-depth knowledge on the physiology of soybean. It is written lucidly, systematically, and in depth. The book provides recent in...

Some animals and plants injure or kill millions of people annually, others cause trillions of dollars in property damage and loss. Such harmful spe...

In this book, the information encompasses various researchable biotechnology aspects of sugarcane, its genomic structure, diversity, comparative an...

There is a growing demand for appropriate management of aquatic invasive species in lakes and rivers worldwide. This book covers biology, invasion ...

Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food system. Population growth, climate change an...

Fish accomplish most of their basic behaviors by swimming. Swimming is fundamental in a vast majority of fish species for avoiding predation, feedi...

Principles of Agricultural Economics, now in its fourth edition, continues to showcase the power of economic principles to explain and predict issu...

Naturally occurring salt tolerant and halophytic plants (trees, shrubs, grasses, and forbs) have always been utilized by livestock as a supplement ...

This is an exciting time for natural resources planning. There are amazing technologies available to planners and a wide and growing array of resou...

This book summarizes nanotechnology-based agricultural research for crop productivity and the management of various plant pathogens. It deals with ...

The proposed book titled as Bioprospection of Coproducts and Agro-industrial Wastes: A Sustainable Biotechnological Approach, seeks to offer the im...

This book examines a diverse range of community food initiatives in light of their everyday practices, innovations, and contestations. While commun...