Agriculture and farming

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.

This book reviews the history and development of rhizobial ecology (diversity, function and interactions with the biotic and abiotic environments), evolution (genome diversification, systematics of symbiotic genes) and application.

This book highlights the significance of urban agricultural production, the technologies and methods for supplying organic materials to the farmland, recovering plant nutrients and energy in cities, and systems for sustaining farmlands in order to produce agricultural crops and supply safe food to citizens.

Microbial communities and their functions play a crucial role in the management of ecological, environmental and agricultural health on the Earth.

This book describes the concept, characteristics, methodology, design, management, business, recent advances and future technologies of plant factories with artificial lighting (PFAL) and indoor vertical farms.

The first 50 years of ASEAN integration has brought peace and prosperity to the Southeast Asian region, while the next 50 will undoubtedly be fraught with unprecedented challenges.

Several textbooks and edited volumes are currently available on general soil fertility but to date none have been dedicated to the study of "e;Sustainable Carbon and Nitrogen Cycling in Soil.

This book, consisting of 8 chapters, describes the state-of-the-art technological progress and applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in precision agriculture.

This book is as an extension of previous book "e;Computer Vision and Machine Learning in Agriculture"e; for academicians, researchers, and professionals interested in solving the problems of agricultural plants and products for boosting production by rendering the advanced machine learning including deep learning tools and techniques to computer vision algorithms.

This book discusses genetic engineering of both plants and microbes for making agricultural practices more productive and sustainable.

This book is an important contribution to our understanding of food in China through an ethnographic case study of an alternative food movement in Shanghai and the surrounding countryside.

Some geographic regions around the globe that are rich in terms of modern agriculture technologies, face a dilemma when it comes to storing excess produce, such as grains and even seasonal fruits and vegetable.

This contributed volume aims at bringing together all the genetic engineering tools for managing various types of crop pests.

This book examines the processes for the inclusion of women, and the role of women employees in Nepal's forestry bureaucracy.