Agricultural science

As a natural science, silviculture has a large say in how humans interact with the terrestrial world.

This book is a comprehensive guide to applying machine learning to animal behavior analysis, focusing on activity recognition in farm animals.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

Global climate change affects crop production through altered weather patterns and increased environmental stresses.

"e;If major advances are to be made in coping with most of the major arthropod pest problems, then the tactics and strategies for managing such insects, ticks and mites must change.

Millets are low cost cereal grains and widely used in the food industry and animal husbandry as an important source of food and feed.

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Botrytis cinerea and other Botrytis species are important pathogens of nursery plants, vegetables, ornamental, field and orchard crops and stored and transported agricultural products.

This book offers comprehensive coverage of all manifestations of resistance in combating infectious diseases and explores advances in antimicrobials in agriculture and their applications in the fight against microbes.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

Published in 1968: The author not only pioneered modern-style village surveys in both England and India, but also modern style urban surveys and studies in India.

The sixth edition of this classic text brings sensory evaluation to life for new students and experienced professionals alike.

This book discusses how research efforts have established an organic link between pedology and edaphology of five pedogenetically important soil orders as Alfisols, Mollisols, Ultisols, Vertisols and Inceptisols of tropical Indian environments.

This informative book reviews the challenges of agribusiness in the Southeast Mediterranean.

This book sheds new light on the remote sensing of agriculture in South/Southeast Asian (S/SEA) countries.

An increasing number of rural and urban-based movements are realizing some political traction in their demands for democratization of food systems through food sovereignty.

Commercial Chicken Meat and Egg Production is the 5th edition of a highly successful book first authored by Dr.

Continuing in the tradition of its predecessors, this new edition combines an informal, easy to read style with a thorough introduction to concepts and terminology of plant pathology.

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 been compiled concerning their basic science and their functions or disordered functions in human disease.

Distributed in the East European countries, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, People's Republic of Mongolia, Republic of Cuba and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam by Kultura, Budapest, HungaryThis volume presents the second part of brief characterizations and identification keys for oribatid mites inhabiting the Neotropical Region, as well as a check-list and bibliography of all described species from this area.

This book presents a summary of terrestrial microbial processes, which are a key factor in supporting healthy life on our planet.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region is exceptionally biodiverse.

Grain Marketing explores the basic principles and concepts of grain marketing and analyzes the futures and options markets, agricultural policy, grain pricing, and grain marketing structures in the United States, Canada, and the European Community.

Why do the Dutch continue to play a central role in the global production, sales, and distribution of flowers?

This book presents a variety of policy adoption methods, irrigation scheduling, and design procedures in micro irrigation engineering for horticultural crops.

Agricultural biotechnology refers to a diverse set of industrial techniques used to produce genetically modified foods.

Analytical pyrolysis allows scientists to use routine laboratory instrumentation for analyzing complex, opaque, or insoluble samples more effectively than other analytical techniques alone.

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are considered enormously important in contemporary agriculture and horticulture due to their important role in nutrient, biotic and abiotic stress management apart from enhancing plant health and soil fertility.

Food security and sustainability are arguably the most important issues facing the agri-food sector at the beginning of a new millennium.

This book highlights the increasing attention for climate engineering, a set of speculative technologies aimed to counter global warming.

The major grain producing nations are moving toward the reduction of domestic and export subsidies to agriculture.

This book looks at agricultural systems and rural economies in Asia through the prism of alternative innovation systems, alternative public policy and institutional changes.

This book presents the latest findings in the areas of digital ecosystem for innovation in agriculture.

This book provides an extensive review of researchinto Campylobacter, Helicobacter and Arcobacter speciesfound in poultry.

In any ecosystem, plant and microbe interaction is inevitable.

There isn't one conversation about animal ethics.

This new book illustrates the complex nature of ecotoxicological issues, using pesticides as an example.

A topical and authoritative examination of the current crisis in the fishing industry, offering a political analysis of the reasons for the crisis and suggesting ways in which this might be overcome.

Take a closer look at the questions surrounding the long-term impact of GE cropsGenetically Engineered Crops examines current controversies surrounding the potential health, environmental, and social impacts of plants produced using molecular biology techniques.

This book explores various nanotechnology applications and their effect on the food industry, innovation and environmental issues.

This book provides a step-by-step guide on how to use various publicly available remotely sensed time series data sources for environmental monitoring and assessment.

This second edition, enhanced with more than 30 new figures, provides an up-to-date overview of physical geography suitable for all those with a personal or professional interest in environmental processes, climate change and understanding of the Earth's landforms and dynamics.

Soil is formed from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks-processes described historically becau'se they involve eons of time-by glaciation and by wind and water transport of soil materials, which are later deposited in deltas and loessial planes.

Just five years ago, it was generally believed that the number of food insecure people in the world was on continuous decline.

This comprehensively updated third edition explores the nature and role of environmental management and offers an introduction to this rapidly expanding and changing field.

Hypobaric Storage in Food Industry: Advances in Application and Theory presents recent examples of hypobaric storage implementation.

This book describes how models are used to monitor crops and soils in precision agriculture, and how they are used to support farmers' decisions.

The story of postwar Greece holds invaluable lessons for many developing countries today.

Climatic conditions are key determinants of plant growth, whether at the scale of temperature regulation of the cell cycle or at the scale of the geographic limits for a particular species.