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    • APPLICATION OF ELECTRO ULTRAFILTRATION (EUF) IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION 

      NEMETH, K. (MARTINUS NIJHOFF / DR W. JUNK PUBLISHERS, 1982)
      The procedure of electro-ultrafiltration (EUF) with simultaneously varying voltage and temperature for the determination of nutrient fractions in soil as well as for the characterization of important soil properties ...

    • An Introduction to Agricultural Geography 

      Grigg, David (Taylor & Francis e-Library, 1984)
      Employing nearly on half of the world’s workforce, agriculture is clearly of great economic and social importance. An incredible variety of methods is used globally; the Western world has the latest scientific and ...

    • Agro-ecological Approaches to Pest Management for Sustainable Agriculture 

      . Parvatha Reddy, P. (© Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017, 2017)
      Even though the intensive crop production practices adopted in achieving green revolution (using heavy doses of fertilizers, indiscriminate use of pesticides and herbicides) led to enormous gains in food production and ...

    • The Dairy Sector 

      Unknown author (OECD Publications, 2004)
      Milk production in OECD countries raises a number of policy challenges when viewed in terms of the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainable agriculture. While per capita milk consumption is relatively ...

    • Agriculture Fact Book 2000 

      Glickman, Dan (2000-11)
      Inside the Agriculture Fact Book, you will learn about the breadth of our mandate–about our stewardship of 192 million acres of national forest land; about our efforts to fight hunger at home and abroad; about our support ...

    • Agriculture and the WTO Towards a New Theory of International Agricultural Trade Regulation 

      Smith, Fiona (Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc. William Pratt House 9 Dewey Court Northampton Massachusetts 01060 USA, 2009)
      This new monograph series is intended to provide a point of convergence for high quality, original work on various aspects of international economic and WTO law, ranging from established subject matter, such as international ...

    • AGRICULTURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT 

      Edwards, C.A; Wali, M.K; D.J, Horn; Miller, F. (ELSEVIER SCIENCE PUBLISHERS B.V, 1991-11)
      It is now widely accepted that the need for seeking strategies for the sustainability of food produc tion, and renewable and non-renewable natural resource use, is beyond question. Although the worst case predictions of ...

    • “GENETIC DIVERSITY AND PATH COEFFICIENT ANALYSIS IN CHICKPEA (Cicer arietinum L.)” 

      VYANKATRAO, BHOSALE SUSHANT (DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL BOTANY POST GRADUATE INSTITUTE MAHATMA PHULE KRISHI VIDYAPEETH RAHURI - 413 722, DIST. AHMEDNAGAR MAHARASHTRA, INDIA, 2015)
      Pulses are unique crops having in-built mechanism to trap atmospheric nitrogen in their root nodules and restore soil fertility. They are capable of thriving in harsh and fragile environment. Pulses are richest and ...

    • Agricultural Wastes and Water, Air, and Animal Resources 

      Unknown author (United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, 2012-02)
      This chapter focuses on the effects that agricultural wastes can have on water, air, and animal resources. Special emphasis is placed on the reactions of particu lar contaminants within the aquatic environment (how ...

    • Agriculture and Food Security 

      Hashmi, Ali Asghar; Shafiullah (IUCN, Northern Areas Programme, 2003)
      Agriculture in the NA is rain fed as well as irrigated. There is a general scarcity of irrigation water, hence a lot of culturable waste cannot be brought under cultivation. The components of food security are crops, ...

    • Agricultural Process Engineering 

      Reddy, R.N (GENE-TECH BOOKS 4762-63/23, Ansari Road, Darya Ganj, NEW DELHI - 110 002, 2010)
      As the world population grows, the productivity of the world's crop land must increase rapidly maintain the minimal supplies currently available in the world. Keeping such a necessity as primary in its agenda, ...

    • Agricultural Policies in India 

      Unknown author (OECD/ICRIER (2018), Agricultural Policies in India, OECD Food and Agricultural Reviews, OECD Publishing, Paris., 2017-10)
      India is one of the fastest growing G20 economies, largely reflecting an ambitious reform agenda under implementation since 2014. Against this background, agriculture is a key sector in terms of its contribution to ...

    • ACCELERATING PRECISION AGRICULTURE TO DECISION 

      David, Lamb (© University of New England (UNE) and Cotton Research and Development Corporation (CRDC) 2017., 2017-09)
      In 2016 the Commonwealth Department of Agriculture and Water Resources initiated a Rural Research and Development (R&D) for Profit Research Project entitled "Accelerating Precision Agriculture to Decision Agriculture". ...

    • Plant Genetic Resources and their Exploitation in the Plant breeding for Food and Agriculture 

      Slovak, P (Slovak Agricultural Research Centre - Research Institute of Plant Production Piešťany EUCARPIA, 2007-05-23)
      At the World Food Summit in 1996, the global community agreed to the goal to halve the number of starving people by 2015. In regard to this ambitious goal crop diversity is essential to provide food security in the ...

    • Precision Agriculture 

      Werner, A; Stafford, J (Wageningen Academic Publishers The Netherlands, 2003)
      Soil mapping is one of the key practices associated with site-specific management. Grid sampling at densities of approximately 1 ha provides useful yet insufficient information about the spatial variation in soil fertility. ...