Agriculture & Farming

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...

This book critically assesses the role of agrobiodiversity in school gardens and its contribution to diversifying diets, promoting healthy eating h...

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...

This book examines the economic gains and social costs of agrarian transformation in India. The author looks at three phases of agrarian transforma...

2020 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

This book brings together current knowledge of terrestrial C sequestration in Central Asia. The themes treated include: biophysical environments, w...

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...

2022 Pest Control for Professional Turfgrass Managers contains the latest information on pesticides used to control turfgrass pests. This volume co...

In today's world, we are witnessing simultaneous breakthroughs in reproductive technologies, genomics, and molecular biology. Advances in molecular...

Supplying sustenance for millions of the poorest people in the world, freshwater flora and fauna also contribute to overall economic well-being by ...

Much has happened since agricultural economists and rural sociologists met at the University of Chicago in 1946 to discuss family farming. The prob...

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 ...

First published in 1997, this volume contributes to the knowledge for the trade of vegetables, fruits and tubers (so-called horticultural commoditi...

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...

Coastal Ecosystem Processes, written by the renowned marine scientist Daniel Alongi, describes how pelagic and benthic food webs, from beaches and ...

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...

Organic Chemicals in the Aquatic Environment draws from the author's experience with a variety of problems dealing with the fate, distribution, and...

The North Carolina Agricultural Chemicals Manual provides extension specialists and agents, researchers, and professionals in the agriculture indus...

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...

This book elaborately covers all topics of swine management like breeding, feeding, housing, health management and pork production technology.The b...

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...

This book assesses the performance of the agricultural sector and other related areas of the economy of Bangladesh. It identifies positive factors ...

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...

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity. This i...