Agriculture and farming

This volume presents insights on the challenges of digital communication and participation in agricultural and rural development.

Tropical and subtropical fruits are popular products, but are often highly perishable and need to be transported long distances for sale.

With the prevalence of viral diseases causing significant health challenges and the emergence of highly infectious and difficult-to-treat conditions, such as Ebola, HIV/AIDS, and Hepatitis B, there is a pressing need for effective antiviral treatments.

Designed Forests: A Cultural History explores the unique kinship that exists between forests and spatial design; the forest's influence on architectural culture and practice; and the potentials and pitfalls of "e;forest thinking"e; for more sustainable and ethical ways of doing architecture today.

Environmental laws and regulations are extremely complex and difficult to understand.

This book contains the papers from the IMechE's Sustainable Vehicle Technologies 2012 conference.

Commercial Poultry Production on Maryland's Lower Eastern Shore traces the beginnings and development of commercial poultry production in this very important region.

A complex look at California Nativeecological practicesas a modelfor environmental sustainabilityand conservation.

This book covers the latest advances in the field of computational intelligence with a special focus on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) such as promoting sustainable agriculture, good health, clean water and sanitation, affordable and clean energy, sustainable cities and communities, sustainable industrialization and innovation, and sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems.

This volume includes eight chapters that provide updates in agricultural research.

This book contains thirteen chapters focusing on pest management and control.

Sustainability entails addressing our demands without jeopardizing future generations' ability to meet their own needs.

The present book entitled, "e;Re-visiting the Rhizosphere Eco-system for Agricultural Sustainability"e; written by experts in the field, provides a comprehensive and consolidated state-of art overview of various aspects of rhizosphere biology, ecology and functioning.

Phytoplasma-associated diseases are a major limiting factor to quality and productivity of many ornamentals, horticultural and other economically important agriculture crops worldwide.

This is the first book to comprehensively analyze key issues regarding innovation, entrepreneurship, and human resource development in the Japanese agricultural sector.

Eating locally and developing an urban-rural food continuum is a rapidly evolving movement.

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

Plants create a dynamic micro-biosphere in the soil, around the roots, called as 'rhizosphere', which harbors diverse number of microorganisms for sustaining their growth and development.

This book provides fundamentals, highlights recent developments and offers new perspectives relating to the use of electrolyzed water (EW) as an emerging user- and environmental-friendly broad-spectrum sanitizer, with particular focus on the food industry.

The existential environmental crisis prompted the United Nations to formulate the Millennium Development Goals at the turn of the 21st century in order to embark on an era of sustainable development.

To meet the food security needs of the 21st century, this book focuses on ecofriendly and sustainable production technologies based on plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR).

This edited book highlights the gravity and efficacy of next-generation breeding tools for the enhancement of stress-resilience in cereals, especially in the context of climate change, pests, diseases, and abiotic stresses.

Plants have always occupied a prominent position in the life of every living being.

Radical land reform programmes generate changes in agrarian structures and capital accumulation trajectories in the countryside.

Large-scale chemical fertilizer application causes irreparable damage to soil structure, mineral cycles, soil microbial flora, plants, and other food chains across ecosystems, culminating in heritable mutations in future generations of consumers.

This curated book addresses, in the scholarly realm, the problems of soil degradation and provides some practical solutions for them to save soil life.

El espacio y el tiempo no son independientes, como se creía, sino aspectos diferentes de un todo flexible de 4 dimensiones llamado espacio–tiempo.

El campo argentino y la cúpula empresarial agropecuaria ya no pueden entenderse ni discutirse recurriendo a denominaciones como "vieja elite terrateniente" o rentista, o atendiendo al rol de organizaciones tradicionales como la Sociedad Rural.

This book describes innovative agricultural methods using thermal and non-thermal microwave or plasma energies.

  Ecological intensification involves using natural resources such as land, water, soil nutrients, and other biotic and abiotic variables in a sustainable way to achieve high performance and efficiency in agricultural yield with minimal damage to the agroecosystems.

Studies on transgenic fish, in contrast to mammals, are still in their infancy.

This volume emphasizes recent research developments in the field of plant viral pathogenesis and disease resistance, focusing on the underlying molecular biology as well as the application of recent advances to agricultural problems.

The agricultural industry in Asia is a primary market for the growing number of biotechnology-derived products and genetically modified organisms which are useful in agriculture.

The Dipterocarp forests of South-East Asia constitute a dominant component of the world's tropical forests.

This book provides the biographies, and a related summary, of geneticists and breeders of maize who have contributed to the major discoveries in the 20th century.

The aim of this book series is to familiarize scientists, students and the general public with exciting new discoveries and developments in rice genomics.

The book contains papers presented at a meeting by eucalyptus experts, scholars, consultants and company managers from different countries and regions.

In most developing countries, agriculture has grown from merely an art to a science, but it does not yet maximize its business potential.

Witchweeds (Striga species) decimate agriculture in much of Africa and parts of Asia, attacking the major cereal grains and legumes, and halving the already very low yields of subsistence farmers.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.

The Rice Genetics Collection of past symposia and other selected literature contains nearly 4,400 pages of searchable information on rice genetics and cytogenetics published by the IRRI and its partners since 1964.