Agriculture & Farming

This book examines the most up-to-date research in the agricultural field. The first chapter examines intercropping systems as a way of increasing ...

Large farms now dominate crop production in the United States. Although most cropland was operated by farms with less than 600 crop acres in the ea...

This book is a compilation of research summaries from a number of different focuses in the field of chemistry research.

Phenolic compounds are known to be released into the soil by root exudates and litter inputs thus alterations in foliar and root chemistry have imp...

An understanding of food demand and food trends across countries and the ability to predict potential shifts in demand for different food products ...

Several epidemiological studies have revealed that people who consume nuts regularly are less likely to suffer from coronary heart disease. Clinica...

The combination of food and economic crises has pushed the number of food-insecure or hungry people world-wide to historic levels. Over 1 billion p...

A major issue on the agenda of the ongoing Doha Round of multilateral negotiations by members of the World Trade Organization concerns how and to w...

Plant physiological research has a fundamental role in advancing our understanding of plants and their interactions with surrounding environments. ...

Dietary Guidelines, issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, are intended to help consume...

This book compiles research summaries from a number of different focuses in the important field of environment and agriculture.

Barley is one of the earliest crops to be domesticated and its cultivation since the beginning of the 21st century, provides new utilities for the ...

In light of high farm incomes and constrained federal budgets, the cost of federal farm and conservation programs, about $15 billion annually from ...

Rural communities across America are working to strengthen their economies, provide better quality of life to residents, and build on assets such a...

Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way for offering financial services to low-income populations without traditional c...

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The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is a very important plant in terms of oil-producing crops in the Mediterranean basin. As reported by Zohary and H...

Cowpea is a versatile crop that is well-adapted to poor conditions. This, combined with its high nutrition value, gives cowpea the potential to mit...

Agricultural Research Updates. Volume 23 opens with a study wherein cryoprotectants such as hydrocolloids, kappa- and iota-carrageenans, xanthan gu...

Agricultural Research Updates. Volume 24 begins with a mention of various features of maize chromosomes such as cytological mapping of meiotic chro...

Sugarcane bagasse is considered a by-product of the sugar-alcohol industries. However, in the last few decades, this biomass has been used mainly f...

This book covers topics related to impacts and challenges in the oil palm production chain (with sustainability in mind) and consists of nine chapt...

In this compilation, the authors present the results of the systematic study of the spatial distribution of trace metals in surface soil over the B...

Biological control is a plant protection strategy widely-used in horticultural cropping systems to regulate insect and mite pest populations on gre...

From 2006 through 2010, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) spent about $13 billion annually on federal programs to support farm income, assi...