Agriculture and farming

The buzz on beekeeping.

This book provides systematic information on the lychee and modern tools to promote its sustainable growth and development.

This book puts an updated account on functional aspects of multiphasic microbial interactions within and between plants and their ecosystem.

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.

One has to demonstrate how the addition of mulch animals to a farm fits into its resource organisation & yields higher returns.

An effort has been made to provide knowledge of biofertilizers and microbial pesticides with microbiological techniques required for maintenance and use.

This book presents an exhaustive overview of the theoretical foundations and practical applications of biocontrol in agriculture.

Westcott's Plant Disease is a reference book on diseases which attack plants.

As an established fact, agriculture is the mainstay of majority of Indian population.

As an established fact, agriculture is the mainstay of majority of Indian population.

The European Russian forests are described within the boreal, hemiboreal and nemoral forest regions; floodplain forests are also characterized.

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.

This book introduces readers to nearly 600 common weeds.

A seed is a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering called the seed coat, usually with some stored food.

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.

Environmental sustainability is one of the biggest issues faced by the mankind.

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.

Overviews of critical period concepts, as they appear at several biological levels, are presented.

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.

The present book is an outcome of a training programme on Modeling in Resource Management and Environment through Geomatics.

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.

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.

Horticulture has a special significance for the economic development.

Seas and oceans cover 71 % of the earth's surface and they are home to 80% of all life found on the planet .

Horticulture has a special significance for the economic development.

This book systematically covers the fundamentals and applications of modified biochar.

This book highlights the latest advances in rotifer studies in various fields including aquaculture, ecology, gerontology and ecotoxicology.

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.

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.