Agriculture and farming

This book serves as an essential guide for understanding the full potential of this remarkable plant.

Processing Technologies and Food Protein Digestion covers the effect of all the applied and emerging processing technologies, both thermal and non-thermal, on the digestion of food proteins derived from egg, milk, meat, plants, cereals, fish and seafood.

Unknown to most people, there are innumerable microbial species that accomplish vital ecosystem functions while residing in a suspended state in the troposphere or resting on crop canopies.

This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to the risks of global environmental change.

Aphids Unveiled: The Saga of Nature's Most Irritating Insects explores the curious journey of these tiny insects from humble beginnings to becoming the most obnoxious pests for farmers and home gardeners alike.

Discover the joy of growing and using plants indoors and outdoors, no matter how limited your space.

This book highlights the latest findings and techniques related to nutrition and feed efficiency in animal agriculture.

This comprehensive book presents an alternative fresh look at date palm byproducts as a springboard for the future circular bio economy.

The Asian Development Bank hosted the Asia-Pacific Rural Development and Food Security Forum 2022 to prompt governments to provide leadership to rethink the future of agriculture amid complex and evolving challenges; explore new research, innovations, and technologies to build nature-positive food systems; and forge partnerships and collaboration to mobilize financing for innovation, research, and business for food and nutrition security.

This edited book opens up new vistas for sustainable intensification in agriculture to provide food to ever growing population as well as adapting to the risks of global environmental change.

This three-volume handbook includes state-of-the-art surveys in different areas of neoclassical production economics.

Essential Oils: Extraction, Characterization and Applications covers sixteen essential oils from different herbal and aromatic plants, including production, composition and extraction techniques such as distillation, chemistry and properties, characterization and applications.

First Published in 2002.

This new book merges the concepts of traditional agriculture, crop sustainability, and intellectualproperty rights associated with plant protection and agricultural products.

Descorchados is celebrating its 25th anniversary.

First Published in 2002.

This book presents the latest findings in the areas of digital ecosystem for innovation in agriculture.

Bamboo is one of the most sustainable materials in nature due to its fast growth, rapid regeneration, outstanding mechanical properties, and applications in numerous industries.

This book focuses on the latest developments in endophytic and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and their role in sustainable agriculture.

This book presents a newly designed dynamic fluidic sprinkler (DFS) to improve hydraulic performance of the existing complete fluidic sprinkler (CFS) under low-pressure conditions.

This contributed volume, based on papers presented at a conference held in Zimbabwe in mid-2021, interrogates solutions to COVID-19-related problems and issues across agricultural, environmental and water sectors in Zimbabwe and assesses their scientific, economic and practical validity.

This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China.

Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles.

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This book explores the issues and challenges of gender and development in Africa.

This book describes how models are used to monitor crops and soils in precision agriculture, and how they are used to support farmers' decisions.

The book provides an overview relevant to various biological mechanisms that regulate carbon exchanges between the major components and their response to climate change.

Global food production and climate change among other concerns are societal issues that require major research input from crop science.

This volume presents a comprehensive description of forests of the Uttarakhand Himalaya.

This book explains the best practices and their respective outcomes in artificial intelligence (AI) to meet sustainable development goals and demands.

This book focuses on case studies from Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand and the USA in various ground improvement projects.

Advances in Agronomy, Volume 117, the latest release in this leading reference on agronomy, contains a variety of updates and highlights new advances in the field.

Coastal Habitat Conservation: New Perspectives and Sustainable Development of Biodiversity in the Anthropocene offers the latest research and approaches to biodiversity conservation in coastal areas.

This book analyses the diffusion and implementation of Aid Effectiveness Principles in Kenya's agricultural sector.

This book discusses emerging contexts of global warming and climate change, agricultural vulnerability and adaptation from local to global scale.

This book covers all technologies, developments, and innovations for the manure treatment to explore various strategies for nutrient recovery as well as energy production around the globe.

Advances in the Study of Behavior was initiated over 40 years ago to serve the increasing number of scientists engaged in the study of animal behavior.

India imposes stringent criminal penalties, including life imprisonment in some states, for cow slaughter, based on a Hindu ethic of revering the cow as sacred.

On the basis of systematically summarizing and sorting out the significant achievements made since China's rural reform, this book comprehensively explains the theoretical basis, principles and strategies of the road to rural revitalization of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

This book presents the latest findings in the areas of digital ecosystem for innovation in agriculture.

Andean dry forest ecosystems are threatened by deforestation and unsustainable land use methods.

Outstanding work has been done in forestry research in India in the past now a history of more than a century.

Panditji Jawaharlal Nehru was noted to quote ';Everything else can wait but not agriculture' which shows the deep knowledge he possessed regarding agriculture.

This manual will be helpful for the scientific community and researchers as the concept of genomic research in cattle has been particularly described vividly which will be helpful for them in applying new sequencing and mapping technologies in the field of research on cattle.

The tropical forest ecosystems are one of the most diverse and rich in biological diversity on earth.

Objective To present to the international gathering of specialists comprehensive information about the constraints under which the small farmer livestock production goes on and how India managed and managing to improve the same via policy, programmes and practices.

Animal husbandry is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock.

Agricultural Geography is the study of natural features of the earths surface including climate, soil, r, vegetation, topography etc.

Agriculture is inseparable part of human life.

Entrepreneurship is an emerging issue in the field of agriculture.