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Handbook of Seed Testing

by C. B. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014

Seed testing is performed in dedicated laboratories by trained and usually certified analysts. The tests are designed to evaluate the quality of the seed lot being sold. The various classes of improved seeds are recognized to facilitate the maintenance of genetic purity of the variety and to ensure...

Termites and Sustainable Management

Volume 2 - Economic Losses and Management

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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017

This termite Volume 2 comprises 13 chapters in an attempt to bring all available information on sustainable and eco-friendly termite management. The previous Volume considered the biology, social behaviour and economic importance of these insects. Chapters in this book dealing with damage and specific...

Realising Farmers' Rights to Crop Genetic Resources

Success Stories and Best Practices

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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013

Farmers' Rights are essential for maintaining crop genetic diversity, which is the basis of all food and agricultural production in the world. The International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture recognizes Farmers' Rights and provides for relevant measures. However, implementation...

Sustainable Potato Production and the Impact of Climate Change

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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

The potato is a significant food around the globe in the grand scheme of consumption. However, changes in the Earth’s climate are threatening to negatively impact the growth and production of agriculture, namely potatoes, which in turn will greatly alter the dimensions of food. Sustainable Potato Production...

Beekeeping: 25 Simple Beekeeping Techniques On How to Easily Build And Succesfully Maintain Honey Bee Colony

by Daniel Stone
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017

Beekeeping is a fantastic hobby. Not only do you produce and harvest some of natures finest substances; honey and beeswax, but you get to experience the joy and wonder of looking after tens and hudrends of thousands of living insects. You also partake in one of the greatest and most important conservation...

Application of New Genetic Technologies to Animal Breeding

Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) 25-28 September 2005

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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005

The 16th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Advancement of Animal Breeding and Genetics (AAABG) gathers together scientists, extension workers, producers and industry personnel to review developments in the application of new technologies to animal breeding. Conference presentations include...

The Crops of the Farm

by Isabella Beeton
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017

This vintage book contains a comprehensive handbook on farm crops, being an encyclopedia of common crops with information on cultivation, history, varieties, land preparation, weeding, propagation, pests and diseases, harrowing, and much more besides. Although old, the information contained within...

Sheep Production Adapting to Climate Change

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Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2017

This book presents a compilation of the latest findings from reputed researchers around the globe, covering in detail climate change and its effects on sheep production. In the current global climate change scenario, information related to its impact on livestock agriculture is lacking. The...

Farming for the Long Haul

Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness

by Michael Foley
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019

It’s all but certain that the next fifty years will bring enormous, not to say cataclysmic, disruptions to our present way of life. World oil reserves will be exhausted within that time frame, as will the lithium that powers today’s most sophisticated batteries, suggesting that transportation...

Growing Plantation Forests

by P. W. West
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013

This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural forests are being cleared every year and converted to other...

Adjuvants and Agrochemicals

Volume 2: Recent Development, Application, and Bibliography of Agro-Adjuvants

by Paul N. P. Chow
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

Studies of Adjuvants involve many scientific fields from basic research of the chemistry, through investigations into physiological effects and environmental impact, to mixture formulation and field use. These important areas are illustrated in these two volumes, which are contributions from the First...

The Importance of Honey Production

by E. R. Root
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017

Taken from the sixty-fifth annual report of the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, this is an analysis of the importance of honey in the early twentieth century. It discusses how the demand for honey sharply increased in Europe with the outbreak of the First World War, and explores what this...

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2:

Food, Health, and Nutrition

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Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018

Sustainable Horticulture, Volume 2: Food, Health, and Nutrition addresses some of the most important topics facing horticulture around the world today. This volume, part of the two-volume compendium, focuses on research trends in sustainable horticulture that include postharvest management and processed...

Vegetation and Soils

A World Picture

by S. R. Eyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017

Vegetation and Soils is an introduction to the study of vegetation and soil distribution. In this accessible work, S. R. Eyre describes the distributions of these two important elements in the landscape. The book progresses regionally, and the land areas of the earth are subdivided according to the...