This book provides a synopsis of the methods for analyzing soil physical, chemical, biological and biochemical properties, quantifying nutrient content of fertilizers and manures, active ingredient of pesticides and quality of irrigation water and industrial effluents.
This compendium on abbreviations in agricultural sciences is comprised of 2541 abbreviations distributed in as many as 36 subsubjects under agricultural sciences.
Legumes are a large, diverse family ranging from herbaceous annuals to woody perennials that, because of their capacity to fix nitrogen, are essential components in natural and managed terrestrial ecosystems.
This book gives an overview of the relationships between agriculture and air quality, which is an issue of increasing importance for practitioners and policy makers.
Forestry is a broad subject which deals on multidisciplinary aspects like silviculture, forest soils, properties of soils, forests policies, forest law, botany of tree species, surveying protection, logging which includes felling and conversion, transport, storage, mensuration, grading timber etc.
En el proyecto de investigación Aplicación de tecnologías para el aprovechamiento integral de las fracciones celulósica y hemicelulósica de la cascarilla de arroz , propuesto y ejecutado por el Departamento de Ingeniería de la Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano, se realizó la evaluación de tecnologías para el fraccionamiento de la cascarilla de arroz con el fin de proponer procesos para la obtención de etanol y furfural.
An effort has been made to provide knowledge of biofertilizers and microbial pesticides with microbiological techniques required for maintenance and use.
The proceedings of this book describe an attempt for interaction by the juxtaposition of researchers in aquaculture that provided an opportunity for presentations, discussion, and interaction of mutual benefit to the readers.
This book presents an extensive study on India's agricultural and nonfarm sectors, examining prices, investments and policies, and suggesting various essential technological changes.
This books gives a complete overview of the Soils of Slovenia, from soil research history, climate, geology, geomorphology, major soil types, soil maps, soil propoerties, classification, fertility, land use and vegetation, soil management, soils and humans, soils and industries and future soils issues.
The earth's cryosphere, which includes snow, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, ice shelves, sea ice, river and lake ice, and permafrost, contains about 75% of the earth's fresh water.
The lychee (Litchi chinensis Sonn) an important sub-tropical evergreen fruit crop belonging to family Sapindaceae, is believed to have originated in China, where it has been grown in Southern Guangdong state for thousand of years.
The Encyclopaedia provides practical information on production technologies of tropical and subtropical fruits as well as plantation crops and horticultural nursery.
It is high time to initiate and plan cherry processing and value addition well near the major cherry growing belts to prevent postharvest losses, which at present are very high due to non-availability proper packaging and refrigerated transportation in growing belts.
The book contains knowledge and skill that would facilitate processing and utilization of soybean, a grain legume and food-cum-medicinal resource, for food, feed, pharmaceutical and other industrial applications.
The recent trend in the changing eating pattern of our population mainly due to migration from village to cities and increasing number of working women has flexed a large canvas for the food technologists to act.
Our purpose in the book is to give an overview to start the location specific fish based farming system in the land locked states of the NE Region of India where suitable land is constrain for aquaculture.
This book presents state-of-the-art research on the many facets of the plant microbiome, including diversity, ecology, physiology and genomics, as well as molecular mechanisms of plant-microbe interactions.
Weeds and Science Technology addresses topics that include management of weeds, agricultural, aquatic, Technology for integrated weed management and weed use tools.
This book highlights the implications of nanotechnology and the effects of nanoparticles on agricultural systems, their interactions with plants as well as their potential applications as fertilizers and pesticides.
This book presents the latest advances in rice genomics, genetics and breeding, with a special focus on their importance for rice biology and how they are breathing new life into traditional genetics.
This Encyclopedia of Agrophysics will provide up-to-date information on the physical properties and processes affecting the quality of the environment and plant production.
The Encyclopaedia provides practical information on production technologies of tropical and subtropical fruits as well as plantation crops and horticultural nursery.
Mapping of Indian Locations for Concentrated Solar Thermal applications based on Ground measured Irradiation Data Solar Passive Architecture: An opportunity to design better Solar Sorption Refrigeration and Air conditioning Solar Thermal Energy Storage: A Review on Latent Heat Storage Materials and Applications Resources Assessments & Thermodynamics analysis of Hybrid Biomass-Solar Thermal Power Plant in India Solar Thermoelectric Cooling: Thermodyna-mic Modelling.
This book is intended to provide a clear overview of the principles and practices of pest management and should serve as a useful source of information to the scientists as well as to orchardists and farmers alike.
Powdery mildew disease is the fourth most widespread disease in cruciferous crops and a devastating effect, causing significant losses in terms of quality and quantity in rapeseed and mustard.
