crop soil Books and Publications

Cool-Season Forage and Warm-Season (C4) Grasses Set

Save! Buy the two-book set at additional savings! This set provide a complete grass reference for the classroom, practitioners, crop and soil scientists, ornamental horticulturists, turf specialists, and ...

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Cool-Season Forage Grasses

An in-depth reference for the major cool-season forage grasses, this publication is unique in that it addresses such a large number of species in terms of their role in agriculture and conservation as well as their management. Educators and students, crop and soil scientists, ornamental horticulturists, ...

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Crop Modeling and Decision Support

"Crop Modeling and Decision Support" presents 36 papers selected from the International Symposium on Crop Modeling and Decision Support (ISCMDS-2008), held at Nanjing of China from 19th to 22nd in April, 2008. Many of these papers show the recent advances in modeling crop and soil processes, crop productivity, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Sustainability of Irrigated Agriculture

Irrigated agriculture and the use of water resources in agriculture face the challenges of sustainable development. Research has advanced our knowledge of water use by crops, soil-water-solutes interactions, and the engineering and managerial tools needed to mobilize, convey, distribute, control and apply ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Nitrogen Economy in Tropical Soils

Nitrogen Economy in Tropical Soils presents an authoritative and comprehensive state-of-the-art review on soil/plant nitrogen inter-relationships, with special reference to tropical soils and crops in aerobic and anaerobic environments. Use of isotopically labelled nitrogen in experimentation, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Frankia Symbiosis

of countries to protect crops from winds or improve soil status. Selected papers on plant ecology, Frankia's ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Directions in Tropical Agroforestry Research

of the tri-societies of American Society of Agronomy, Crop Science Society of America, and Soil Science ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Soil Fertility: QUEFTS and Farmers’ Perceptions Free to Non-OECD Countries

Janssen et al, 1990) which predicts crop yields from chemical soil characteristics, as an indicator of ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Modelling water and nutrient dynamics in soil-crop systems

Soil-crop-atmosphere interactions play a central role in the multiple functions of rural landscapes. Agro-ecosystem models are increasingly used to support decision making on different scales towards sustainable land use and management.This is accompanied by a demand of model users for model validation to get an ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Maximising the Use of Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture

Incorporating contributions from microbiologists, molecular biologists, plant breeders and soil scientists this volume reports the results and recommendations of an FAO/IAEA meeting of twelve experts on biological nitrogen fixation. This volume will be invaluable to scientists working on nitrogen fixation, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Fertilizers and Environment

Food production remains the highest agricultural priority, subject to the constraint that it be done in harmony with nature, or at least with minimum environmental pollution. The amount of fertilizer applied can be controlled using modern application techniques, including soil and crop management, ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Micronutrient Deficiencies in Global Crop Production

), but differences in soil conditions, climate, crop genotypes and management, result in marked ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

International technical workshop (An). Investing in sustainable crop intensification: The case for improving soil health

Integrated Crop Management # 6This publication is a report of a Workshop that brought together people from a wide range of institutions - farmers, researchers, extensionists, policy makers, donors - from 40 countries who share a common concern about the non-sustainability of ways in which farm land is now being ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Farmers' Responses to Soil Fertility Decline in Banana-Based Cropping Systems of Uganda

By Earthprint Ltd

First Wave Agricultural Revolution

Alvin Toffler's First Wave began approximately 10,000 years ago. That time marked the end of the Old Stone Age (the Paleolithic) and the beginning of the New Stone Age or the Neolithic. This is approximately when the Agricultural Revolution started. People began clearing land and tilling the soil in order to ...

By Waves of the Future

Global report on validated alternatives to the use of methyl bromide for soil fumigation (En)

Series: FAO Plant Production and Protection Paper.Methyl bromide (MeBr), used as a fumigant to control several soil-borne pests in various crops, is a strong ozone depleter, and governments and international agencies aware of the problem have agreed to establish a programme to phase out its use. As a result, ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Soil and Terrain Database for northeastern Africa (The). Crop Production System Zones of the IGAD subregion (CD ROM) (En)

Series: FAO Land and Water Digital Media Series - CD-ROMThis CD-ROM contains a collection of land and natural resource information for northeastern Africa, in particular for the IGAD countries bordering the Nile basin. It includes data on administrative boundaries, rivers and lakes, soil and terrain, climatology, ...

By Earthprint Ltd

Phosphorus: Agriculture and the Environment

Phosphorus and its effect on the environment have become hotly contested issues by watershed managers, farmers, lakeside property owners, regulatory agencies, and politicians. This 1121 page monograph is a thorough discussion by 78 experts on topics ranging from the properties and sources of phosphorus in agriculture to strategies for its management in the environment. Learn about phosphorus and ...

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

Bacterial Wilt Disease

Jointly published with INRA, Paris.Bacterial wilt, caused by Ralstonia solanacearum, is a very destructive plant disease that attacks over 450 different species, including many of the most important economic crop plants. Often endemic, the bacterium transmits through the soil, penetrates the plant root ...

By Springer-Verlag GmbH

Alleviating Soil Fertility Constraints to Increased Crop Production in West Africa

By Springer-Verlag GmbH