Agricultural science

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Accomplishing sustainability in the agribusiness sector is a significant, yet time-sensitive, challenge, especially when balanced with the need to grow sufficient quantity and quality of food to keep the growing global population healthy.

Accomplishing sustainability in the agribusiness sector is a significant, yet time-sensitive, challenge, especially when balanced with the need to grow sufficient quantity and quality of food to keep the growing global population healthy.

The provision of a safe and reliable water supply is a major challenge for the world's growing urban populations.

Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources offers an introduction to digital remote sensing.

The only way to completely eliminate the health effects associated with hazardous materials is to eliminate the material.

Volume 2 of this 4-volume set tackles the problems presented by diseases in vegetable crops that can reduce yield and quality.

This study focuses on applied research as a service to a client with a problem that research can help solve.

The result of strong international interest in the soybean, the World Soybean Research Conference II was held March 26-29, 1979, at North Carolina State University.

Plant diseases cause serious threats to the successful cultivation of horticultural crops, resulting in huge losses in their yields.

This third volume of the 4-volume set focuses on the diseases prevalent in ornamental plants and spice crops.

This fourth volume of this 4-volume set discusses the key diseases, typical symptoms, and management strategies of several economically important plants.

This third volume of the 4-volume set focuses on the diseases prevalent in ornamental plants and spice crops.

Plant diseases cause serious threats to the successful cultivation of horticultural crops, resulting in huge losses in their yields.

Volume 2 of this 4-volume set tackles the problems presented by diseases in vegetable crops that can reduce yield and quality.

Satellite Remote Sensing of Natural Resources offers an introduction to digital remote sensing.

Attempts to apply nanotechnology in agriculture began with the growing realization that conventional farming technologies would neither be able  to  increase productivity any further nor restore ecosystems damaged by existing technologies back to their pristine state; in particular because the long-term  effects of farming with “miracle seeds” in conjunction with irrigation, fertilizers, and pesticides, have been questioned both at the scientific and policy levels and must be gradually phased out.

This book presents a new way of viewing contaminated soil-as a resource that in many instances can be recovered.

The only way to completely eliminate the health effects associated with hazardous materials is to eliminate the material.

This book presents a new way of viewing contaminated soil-as a resource that in many instances can be recovered.

There has been a surge in critical situations such as malnutrition, agricultural productivity, viral diseases, noncommunicable diseases, antibiotic resistance, and depletion of natural resourcest hreatening human welfare during the last decade.

This study focuses on applied research as a service to a client with a problem that research can help solve.

Written by experts from across the globe, Herbicide Resistance and World Grains evaluates the weed and herbicide management systems in major world grain crops such as soybean, maize, rice, and canola.

This fourth volume of this 4-volume set discusses the key diseases, typical symptoms, and management strategies of several economically important plants.

Originally published in 1991, the focus of the contributions in this book is the relationships between rurality and small-scale production, particularly in Europe.

Agricultural Soil Sustainability and Carbon Management presents long-term research in the field of sustainable soil use and management to guide in the prioritizing the multifunctional value of soil health and addressing interdisciplinary links between major issues such as biodiversity and climate change.

Originally published in 1992, the volume shows through the lens of labour processes how global forces are played out at the local level.

This edited volume covers all aspects of microbes in consortia; their roles in the ecological balance of soil by mineralize soil nutrients, plant growth promotion, protecting plants from disease by acting as biocontrol agents etc.

Originally published in 1994, this volume brings together a set of essays reflecting the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors.

Entomopathogenic fungi are economically important fungi from environmental, agricultural, and human health perspectives.

Explore new and proven information about cotton fibers!

While focusing on various interactions between trait genes/QTL and dynamic expressions of conditional QTL genes, this book also discusses aspects of molecular marker-assisted breeding, and applications of molecular markers associated with yield, quality, physiology and disease resistance in wheat.

Originally published in 1994, this volume brings together a set of essays reflecting the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states in seeking to manage their agricultural sectors.

Originally published in 1990, this volume addresses issues surrounding global ecological changes and sustainability of present patterns of urbanisation and industrialisation.

Explore new and proven information about cotton fibers!

Originally published in 1992, the volume shows through the lens of labour processes how global forces are played out at the local level.

Originally published in 1991, the focus of the contributions in this book is the relationships between rurality and small-scale production, particularly in Europe.

Agricultural Soil Sustainability and Carbon Management presents long-term research in the field of sustainable soil use and management to guide in the prioritizing the multifunctional value of soil health and addressing interdisciplinary links between major issues such as biodiversity and climate change.

Originally published in 1994, this book brings together papers developing feminist analyses of the rural condition from a wide range of industrialised countries, informed by the national and local cultural constructions of gender and rurality which they interpret.

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

The Nile River Basin supports the livelihoods of millions of people in Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan and Uganda, principally as water for agriculture and hydropower.

This book presents the state-of-the-art in plant ecophysiology.

This book introduces the reader to the Great Lakes and considers their soil-forming factors and processes, taxonomic structure of the soils, soil geography and pedodiversity, while also addressing the importance and protection of soils in the Great Lakes Coastal Zone.

This two-volume collection analyses the evolution of wine production in European regions across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan) is a crop of small land holding farmers in arid and semi-arid regions of the world.

This book reports on the current global status of mungbean and its economic importance.

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The book examines the pattern of non-farm development at the national level and identifies the correlates and determinants of occupational diversification for the major states.

Best Synthetic Methods: Organophosphorus (V) Chemistry provides systematic coverage of the most common classes of pentavalent organophosphorus compounds and reagents (including phosphonyl, phosphoryl, and organophosphates), and allows researchers an easy point of entry into this complex and economically important field.