Agricultural science

The success of modern-day agriculture lies in the digitalization of agricultural systems.

Food is contaminated in the production chain and is the point of concern among the consumers and industries.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of artificial intelligence (AI) and data analytics in precision agriculture.

This book opens up horizons for designing innovative supply chains of citrus by-products, taking into consideration the current socio-economic situation of the actors, citrus production and distribution infrastructure, consumer preferences, and digitization progress at farmer and production levels.

This book introduces what sclerotia grains are, and where and how they exist in soils, by compiling the results obtained from the studies on fungal sclerotia formed by Cenococcum geophilum (Cg) and related species, the visible black small grains persistent for a few thousand to ten thousands of years in forest soils and sediments.

This book includes selected papers from the Second International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2022), held in St.

This book aims to assess the roles of entrepreneurship and social innovation for socio-cultural changes.

This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and cons.

This edited book discusses how effective soil carbon management plans and policies will ultimately make agriculture more secure against climate change and soil degradation.

This edited book stands as a one place knowledge hub for plant metal(loid) transporters.

This book presents the advancement of coating materials technology especially in agriculture, particularly for fertilizers.

This edited book provides the readers with the concepts and in-depth knowledge of plant disease assessment and conventional and modern technologies that aid in precise and accurate phytomathometery.

Food is contaminated in the production chain and is the point of concern among the consumers and industries.

This edited book covers all aspects of omics approaches used for the varietal improvement of millets in changing climatic conditions.

This book provides comprehensive economic analyses on the paths to net-zero for China.

This book describes the various techniques for nondestructive quality assessment of fruits and vegetables.

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China's and global food security under climate change.

This book features selected papers presented at the 20th International Conference on Near Infrared Spectroscopy.

This book deliberates on the various aspects of plant-based nutrition.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

This book explains farmer suicides in India in the backdrop of rural politics as a determining factor.

This book covers all aspects of hybrid breeding technologies applied for crop improvement in major field crops.

This book proposes the use of green infrastructure to balance biodiversity conservation and disaster management.

This book illustrates the importance of microbiome interactions in sustainable agriculture and the environment.

 This is the first book to clarify the relationships between multi-functions of urban agriculture, creative classes, and social business in China and Japan.

This is the first book that analyzes the growth of the Peruvian fresh fruit and vegetable (FFV) export industry from the view point of the industrial development.

This book presents the definition of aeolian desertification and uncovers its processes, driving factors, and consequences, and focuses on measures to effectively combat aeolian desertification in Northeast Asia.

This book is concerned with the systemic examination of the prospects for the development of smart agriculture for sustainable development.

This book provides guidelines for using a new approach of resampling the Cs-137 radionuclide tracer which is used to estimate soil erosion rates.

This book presents a timely investigation of radar remote sensing observations for agricultural crop monitoring and advancements of research techniques and their applicability for crop biophysical parameter estimation.

This book is a collection of papers presented at XIV International Scientific Conference "e;INTERAGROMASH 2021"e;, held at Don State Technical University, Rostov-on-Don, Russia, during 24-26 February 2021.

Futures markets offer numerous advantages in the marketing of agricultural commodities, and in this context, the book examines the major factors and issues that determine the participation of India's farmers in the futures markets.

This book features selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Agriculture Digitalization and Organic Production (ADOP 2021), held in St.

This book provides an overview of the distribution, properties, and function of soils in Japan.

This book introduces readers to the main theories of phytoremediation and its application to arsenic-contaminated soils in China.

This book describes recent developments in soil liquefaction engineering and introduces more appropriate procedures than the current ones to evaluate triggering and consequences of soil liquefaction during earthquakes.

The proceedings publishes new research results of scholars from the First International Conference on Agriculture and Information (ICAIT2019) organized by IRNet International Academic Communication Center, held during November 22-24, 2019.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

This book clarifies the status quo and mechanisms of agricultural and rural development in today's Russia, especially focusing on human capital and human development.

The studies in this volume provide an ethnography of a plantation frontier in central Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

This is the third volume of the proceedings of the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG 2018), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the 8th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics (ICEG), held on October 28 - November 1, 2018 in Hangzhou, China.

This book presents a game changing technology of lower energy-intensive urea production of urea which is used as fertilizer.

This book highlights the water-energy-food nexus as one of the most important and fundamental global environmental issues facing the world.

This book integrates the analyses of organic carbon and carbonate accumulation in soil and lake sediment in a typical arid region of China that has experienced significant climate and land-use changes.

This book examines the risks involved in agriculture from the farmer's perspective.

The book discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture, forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of the selected invasive species.

This book covers the broad spectrum of system dynamics methodologies for the modelling and simulation of complex systems: systems thinking, causal diagrams, systems structure of stock and flow diagrams, parameter estimation and tests for confidence building in system dynamics models.