Agriculture and farming

Polyphagous pests are primarily agricultural pests that feed on economically important agricultural and horticultural crops of wide taxonomic diversity across the globe.

This book investigates radiocesium movement in all major components of forest ecosystems, e.

This book illustrates the importance and significance of bioinformatics in the field of agriculture.

This book illustrates the currently available strategies for managing phytonematodes.

This is the first book to focus on farm and rural community management in less favored areas of Japan.

This textbook is a comprehensive volume on sprinklers and drip irrigation and covers all the basic and fundamentals concepts related to these topics.

This book discusses the various aspects of the health and nutritional benefits of the wonder grains, small millets.

Plant tissue culture (PTC) technology has gained unassailable success for its various commercial and research applications in plant sciences.

This book provides insights on innovative strategies to build resilient food systems in the wake of challenges posed by climate change.

Most landslides are triggered by rainfall.

This book provides an overview of the latest developments and future challenges in enzyme inhibitor research.

This book provides a blueprint for the allocation of public expenditures "e;in"e; and "e;for"e; agriculture at the dis-aggregated state level and suggests a reorientation in favour of disadvantaged regions where the marginal returns on additional investments would be higher.

This book presents a collection of practitioner and community stories that reveal how invasive species management is a community issue that can spark community formation and collective action.

The recent technologies for sustainable development and maintaining ecological integrity in the field of agriculture, forestry and environmental management for the green future.

This book is a collection of comprehensive and latest information on all aspects of vaccination in fish and shellfish.

This book covers important topics on various neglected and underutilised crops (vegetables, cereals, fruit crops).

This book presents recent findings on virtually every aspect of wireless IoT and analytics for agriculture.

This book describes the fundamentals of microfluidics and fabrication methods of microfluidic devices that can be adopted for animal-assisted reproduction.

This book presents recent developments in statistical methodologies with particular relevance to applications in forestry and environmental sciences.

This is the first book illustrating China's forest carbon projects.

This book presents biotechnological advances and approaches to improving the nutritional value of agri-foods.

This book discusses the history of environmental science and climate change, and the initiation and development of different parameters determining climate changes.

This book gathers selected proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society, and covers various aspects of soil dynamics and earthquake geotechnical engineering.

The book argues that an increasing corporatisation of agriculture in India that is enabled by its neoliberal State, in the name of 'development', is contributing towards deepening of inequality in the rural India.

This book is designed to popularize Quinoa cereal among both scientific and food industry.

This book unveils forestry science and its policy and management that connect past and present understanding of forests.

This edited book covers all aspects of grain legumes including negative impact of abiotic and biotic stresses under the changing global climate.

This edited book is a comprehensive compilation of principles, conventional and molecular approaches used to develop improved varieties and hybrids of major crops in light of their origin, evolution, taxonomy, production and productivity and need by human civilization.

This book collects all the latest technologies with their implications on the global rice cultivation.

This book is first part of the 3 volume set focusing on basic and advanced methods for using microbiology as an entrepreneurial venture.

This book explores various aspects of thermophilic and halophilic microbes from Eurasian ecosystems, which have proved to offer a unique reservoir of genetic diversity and biological source of extremophiles.

Plants growing in the natural environment battle with a variety of biotic (pathogens infection) and abiotic (salinity, drought, heat and cold stresses etc.

This compilation has been designed to provide a comprehensive source of theoretical and practical update for scientists working in the broad field of soil science.

The book discusses important developments emerging around the land questions in India in the context of India's neoliberal economic development and its changing political economy.

Microbial communities and their multi-functionalities play a crucial role in the management of soil and plant health, and thus help in managing agro-ecology, the environment and agriculture.

This comprehensive edited volume collects the most recent information with up-to-date citations, on the decrease in plant productivity under climatic changes and its link with global food security.

Agronomic crops have been a source of foods, beverages, fodders, fuels, medicines and industrial raw materials since the dawn of human civilization.

This book provides comprehensive insights into the field of duck production and management.

The book explores the challenges and opportunities associated with high-altitude agro-ecosystems and the factors that influence them.

This book gives an overview of the diverse marine fauna and flora of Japan and includes practical guides for investigating the biology and ecology of marine organisms.

Millets are small-grained, annual, warm weather cereal.

This book mainly deals with grassland digitalization and recognition through computer vision, which will make contributions to implement of grass auto recognition and data acquisition.

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

This contributory volume is a comprehensive collection on the mangrove forest eco-system and its ecology, the resources and potentials of mangroves, conservation efforts, mangrove eco-system services and threats to conservation.

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

The book comprises selected proceedings of the 2016 annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This book presents the progress, changes, and evolvement for apple mechanical harvest during the past decades, which include, but not limited to, bulky harvest method, harvest platform, apple infield sorting, and harvest robotics.

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

This book provides a fresh perspective on the ever-growing relevance of input-output analysis in problem solving.

This book covers all aspects of deficiency of essential elements and excess of toxic ones in crop plants.