Agricultural Science

Strigolactones, Alkamides and Karrikins in Plants: Recent Updates and Future Prospects provides comprehensive knowledge on the various aspects of p...

Volume I of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses fundamental characteristics, measurements, and a...

Volume III of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses water and watershed issues such as water quali...

Volume II of Geospatial Information Handbook for Water Resources and Watershed Management discusses Geospatial Technology (GT) approaches using int...

Numerous authors have presented analyses of the world food problem and the appropriate role of animals in food production and have drawn qualitativ...

This book outlines the most important organizational, institutional, technical, and macroeconomic aspects of soil and land management appraisal. It...

Emerging Technology and Management for Ruminants focuses on pasture, range, and forages; on advanced technologies of reproduction and genetics; and...

This book addresses a number of issues related to the estimation and application of elasticities in international agricultural trade. It is the out...

The performance of irrigation schemes that carry sediment laden water is often poor. Modern irrigation schemes are increasingly demand based, which...

First published in 1980, this compact and useful book uses the earliest volumes of government-published statistics, and with the aid of computer-ge...

The advent of new methods in shaping the performance characteristics of plants, animals, and microbes dramatically expands the possibilities for ad...

Large scale cultivation of macrofungi is possible with fermentation, using easily accessible lignocellulosic agricultural residues applying economi...

This book looks at the input-output relations of low-resource agriculture in Africa and shows how the intensification process through the applicati...

It has only been a short time since the existence of suppressor cells was demonstrated, yet in this period of time a great deal of information has ...

The purpose of this book is to focus attention on some of these ideas and concepts. In doing so, it has captured a glimpse of the past and it attem...

It is the purpose of this volume to survey and assess the management problems of recreation waters and to present case problems from the field in w...

Monitoring continuous phenomena by stationary and mobile sensors has become a common due to the improvement in hardware and communication infrastru...

Competitiveness in International Food Markets draws together papers that define and evaluate the concepts that underlie firm, sector, and national ...

This book analyzes growth and structural change in Indian agriculture and presents an empirical approach to the underlying economic data and a mult...

This book analyzes the implications of the trend toward increased seller concentration due to mergers and leveraged buyouts that have helped increa...

This book presents the results of a study undertaken by the Economic Council of Canada on the future of the Prairie grain economy in Canada. It dea...

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...

This book reflects on Indonesias recent experience with REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation), all set within a broa...

Urban Planning for Social Justice in Latin America explores how urban planning can be used as a tool for social equity. The book examines several L...

Larger amounts of nutritious food are required to feed the growing world population, which is a great challenge due to water shortages and reduced ...