Crop Cultivation Books
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Fertilization and Irrigation - Theory and Best Practices
The book covers the essentials of plant nutrition and irrigation management. Throughout the 232 pages of the book, the author, Guy Sela, shares his knowledge on the most important aspects of crop nutrition and irrigation, including: Plant nutrients, fertilizer management practices, interpretation of soil analysis, irrigation water quality, fertigation, irrigation scheduling and more... ...
By Cropaia
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Hydroponic Tomato Production Schedule
Sticking to this feeding schedule will ensure your hydroponic tomatoes grow optimally and to their full genetic ...
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Sustainable Micro Irrigation Management for Trees and Vines
This valuable book, the third volume in the Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation series, focuses on sustainable micro irrigation management for trees and vines. It covers the principles as well as recent advances and applications of micro irrigation ...
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Management, Performance, and Applications of Micro Irrigation Systems
Management, Performance, and Applications of Micro Irrigation Systems, the fourth volume in the Research Advances in Sustainable Micro Irrigation series, emphasizes sustainable and meaningful methods of irrigation to counter rampant water scarcity. In many parts of the world, this scarcity significantly affects crop yield, crop quality, and, consequently, human quality of life. This important ...
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Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation
This new book,Sustainable Practices in Surface and Subsurface Micro Irrigation, offers a vast amount of knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The information covered has worldwide applicability to irrigation management in ...
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Agroecosystems: Soils, Climate, Crops, Nutrient Dynamics and Productivity
Comprised of three sections, this important book provides detailed knowledge about the nutrient dynamics and productivity of global agroecosystems. The book explores agroecosystems that flourish in different continents of the world. The main focus is on the major aspects that make up agroecosystems, such as soils, climate, crops, nutrient dynamics, and productivity. The first section provides an ...
By XPRT
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Evapotranspiration: Principles and Applications for Water Management
This book covers topics on the basic models, assessments, and techniques to calculate evapotranspiration (ET) for practical applications in agriculture, forestry, and urban science. This simple and thorough guide provides the information and techniques necessary to develop, manage, interpret, and apply evapotranspiration ET data to practical applications. The simplicity of the contents assists ...
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Management of Drip/Trickle or Micro Irrigation
This important book—the only complete, one-stop manual on microirrigation worldwide--offers knowledge and techniques necessary to develop and manage a drip/trickle or micro irrigation system. The simplicity of the contents facilitates a technician to develop an effective micro irrigation system. Management of Drip/Trickle or Micro Irrigation includes the basic considerations relating to ...
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Advanced Oil Crop Biorefineries
In Europe, the main oil-rich crops are sunflower, rapeseed and olive which are grown primarily for food. This book discusses how to convert this whole crop into energy (fuels, power and heat), food and bioproducts (chemicals and/or materials), whilst making optimal use of the by-products generated during farming/harvesting, primary processing (oil extraction and refining) and secondary processing ...
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Litterbugs: How To Deal With The Problem Of Littering
Litterbugs highlights the blight of littering in the UK, identifies a lack of systematic logic in enforcement policy and proposes new means on cracking down of those ...
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Corporate Guide to Voluntary Sector Initiatatives in CSR
Get the inside track from some of the world's key sector initiatives. This report examines leading global initiatives across a range of industries and tells you what works (and pays!), why some initiatives are doomed to fail and why and how you should get involved. This report will: Update you on the progress of the various sector initiatives, highlighting which have developed a strong ...
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Pesticide Formulations and Delivery Systems, 28th Volume: Global Trends and Regulatory Drivers in the Crop Protection Industry
Eleven peer-reviewed papers address many of the latest challenges to the agrochemical formulations industry regarding global trends and regulatory drivers.Topics cover: Formulations Regulatory Initiatives Delivery Applications Research: Soil, Seed, Test ...
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Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies II
This book contains most of the papers presented at the Second International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation, Management, Technologies and Policies. The meeting follows the success of the first Conference which was organised in Bologna in 2006. Over-exploitation of fresh water resources is leading to damaging long lasting environmental effects with considerable depletion of groundwater and ...
By WIT Press
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Chemistry in the Garden
The aim of this book is to describe some aspects of the chemistry and chemical ecology which are found in the garden.In the garden there are numerous interactions between plants, the soil and with other organisms in which chemistry plays a central mediating role. The discussion concerns several of the chemically and ecologically interesting compounds that are produced by common ornamental garden ...
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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 plant crops as opposed to gathering what nature provided or failed to provide. They also ...
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Pesticide Formulations and Delivery Systems, 27th Volume: Traditional and Non-Traditional Developments
Thirteen peer-reviewed papers address many of the latest challenges to the agrochemical formulations industry, including lower dose products, stringent safety criteria, convenience, increased efficiency of application, and improved cost competitiveness and product differentiation. Sections cover: Developments in Formulation Technology eight papers focus on novel formulation types, new ...
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Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: Considerations for the Future
Understand sustainable development from economic, ecological, and social perspectives As world population continues to increase, the need grows for a safe, sustainable supply of food. Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability: Considerations for the Future provides the latest research results and vital information on the process of producing an enduring food supply that is healthy for ...
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Ecological Basis of Agroforestry
Faced with the growing problems of climate change, ecosystem degradation, declining agricultural productivity, and uncertain food security, modern agricultural scientists look for potential relief in an ancient practice. Agroforestry, if properly designed, can mitigate greenhouse effects, maintain ecosystem health and biodiversity, provide food security, and reduce poverty. Poorly implemented ...
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Handbook of Turfgrass Management and Physiology
A multibillion dollar industry that has tripled in the last ten years, turfgrass management plays an important role in landscaping, golf courses, and other sports surfaces. Proper management and cultural practices are crucial for the performance of these versatile grasses, creating a demand among scientists, researchers, and industry professionals for better quality, hardier grasses. The mounting ...
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Conservation Tillage Systems and Water Productivity - Implications for Smallholder Farmers in Semi-Arid Ethiopia: PhD, UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, The Netherlands
Conservation tillage systems solve the problem of land degradation and declining water productivity. However, direct application of such tillage systems has not been possible among resource-poor, smallholder farmers in semi-arid areas of Ethiopia. This book considers traditional tillage systems and discusses the results of evaluations carried out on appropriate conservation tillage implements and ...
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