Plant stresses are serious threats to the sustainability of crop yields accounting for more crop productivity losses than any other factor in rainfed agriculture.
The theme of the book is highly relevant to the current emphasis on environment conservation, with focus on native biodiversity conservation in agro-ecosystems.
Upon the backdrop of impressive progress made by the Indian economy during the last two decades after the large-scale economic reforms in the early 1990s, this book evaluates the performance of the economy on some income and non-income dimensions of development at the national, state and sectoral levels.
Climate change, a global phenomenon, has attracted scientists to contribute in anticipatory research to mitigate adverse impacts, which are more important for horticulture, considering that the scenario is in the midst of revolution, reaching the production level of 250 million tonnes in India.
A number of driving forces, including the soaring global crude oil prices and environmental concerns in both developed and developing nations has triggered a renewed interest in the recent years on the R&D of biofuel crops.
In the recent years, the need to increase food production to meet the demands of rapidly increasing population from a limited land resource necessitated the use of intensive farming systems, with the inputs like narrow genetic base, high dose of fertilizers, pesticides, irrigation, monocropping, etc.
Plant tissue culture (PTC) is basic to all plant biotechnologies and is an exciting area of basic and applied sciences with considerable scope for further research.
Agroecosystem is an ideal dynamic functional system with a set of chemical and biological interaction taking place in plant surface either below or above the ground levels.
Through 'Green Revolution' in late 1960s, India achieved self-sufficiency in food production, but still the country has not achieved self-sufficiency in production of horticultural crops.
This book contributes to the adoption of agricultural technology in general and to literature on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) in particular by identifying the factors that influence the decision to adopt SRI and examining SRI's impact on household income and yield.
The book deals with some of the most debated, yet unresolved questions regarding water management options for India and several other developing economies.
The Indian economy is a picture of contrasts : on one side, there is mass poverty and, on the other, the development of centres of excellence in the services industry.
Debido al grave impacto que tienen hoy en día los sistemas productivos agropecuarios en todos los ámbitos (local, rural, regional y global); se hace necesario proponer estrategias que prolonguen la existencia de todos los seres vivos, incluida una forma de vida sostenible y saludable para la humanidad.
En la obra se analizan los principales factores, variables y atributos que permiten aproximarse a la realidad agraria y rural del departamento de Casanare como escenario para reconocer su importancia, asi como exaltar sus oportunidades en virtud de construir propuestas de desarrollo sostenible a traves de la multifuncionalidad de la agricultura, la multidimensionalidad rural y los diferentes actores territoriales.
Un estudio de la nueva situación del campo mexicano con énfasis en los distritos de riego y de la forma en que se interconectan los procesos de globalización, liberación y desregulación de una estructura económicosocial con el análisis concreto de las percepciones identitarias.
En 1979, dentro del marco de la celebración de los cien años del natalicio del general Emiliano Zapata Salazar, la Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Morelos (UAEM) crea e inicia el programa educativo de Ingeniería en Desarrollo Rural (IDR).
Nos centramos en comprender el concepto de cadena de suministro agroalimentaria, concibiendola como funciones de colaboracion interdependientes, por las partes interesadas, para agregar o aportar valor a un producto especifico que despues se distribuyen, comercializan y llevan al consumidor final.
La doctora Susana Chow incursiona por los caminos de la actividad industrial que procesa los productos que más tarde se convierten en importantes satisfactores para la sociedad de consumo, como las prendas de vestir, los plásticos de uso doméstico e industrial y los combustibles.
Estudio de la forma en que la ciencia agrícola puede ayudar a aumentar las cosechas y a resolver un problema que no sólo es de México: el bajo incremento de la producción agrícola en las últimas décadas.
In recent years nobody could have failed to notice the frequent and often sensati- alist media headlines warning of the latest global disease threat to humankind.
Riparian forests along streams and rivers are diverse in species, structure, and regeneration processes, and have important ecological functions in maintaining landscape and biodiversity.
Pine forests face a global threat of pine wilt disease, which is being spread by vector beetles carrying pathogenic nematodes from dead trees to healthy ones.
Since the late 1960s the Indonesian state of East Kalimantan has witnessed a marked increase in the impact of human activities chiefly commercial logging and agricultural exploitation.
New research reveals that plants actively acquire nutrients; the acquisition process is not a passive one in which plants simply wait for dissolved nutrients to come closer to their roots.
This book explores how we can solve the urgent problem of optimizing the use of variable, uncertain but finite fisheries resources while maintaining sustainability from a marine-ecosystem conservation perspective.
This book summarizes three years of extensive research conducted in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Vietnam as part of the CECAR - Asia project, which was intended to enhance resilience to climate and ecosystem changes by developing mosaic systems to strengthen resilience of bio-production systems through the integration of large-scale modern agriculture systems with traditional, decentralized small-scale systems.
This is the first English book to address the current development of closed recirculating aquaculture systems (cRASs) in Japan, and its implications for industry in the near future.
The main objective of this book is to integrate environmental knowledge observed in local agriculture, based on the understanding of soils science and ecology, and to propose possible technical solutions and a more integrated approach to tropical agriculture.
This book focuses on the ecological impacts of the Great East Japan Earthquake and resulting tsunamis, a rare and extremely large disturbance event, on various coastal ecosystems in Japan's Tohoku area, including sub-tidal and tidal animal communities, sand dune plant communities and coastal forests.
This is the only book to offer an up-to-date overview of air pollution in East Asia and the effects of air pollutants such as ozone, acid deposition and aerosols on Asian crops and trees.
This book presents a comprehensive and detailed description of remediation techniques for metal-contaminated soils derived from both natural processes and anthropogenic activities.
