Author: Kees StigterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540746986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Farmers Agricultural policymakers Environmentalists
Applied Agrometeorology
Author: Kees StigterPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540746986
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1042
Book Description
Farmers Agricultural policymakers Environmentalists
The Groundnut Crop
Author: J. SmarttPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401107335
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 753
Book Description
Groundnuts (peanuts) are of great economic importance internationally. This book provides thorough coverage of all aspects of the crop, each chapter being written by experts in particular areas. The book will be invaluable to all those involved with the group, particularly agronomists, plant scientists and food scientists.
Publications of the International Agricultural Research and Development Centers
Author: Publisher: Int. Rice Res. Inst.
ISBN: 9711042266
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Agricultural Meteorology and Remote Sensing
Author: Susan WhitmorePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Meteorology, Agricultural
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Science and Technology of Groundnut
Author: B. B. DesaiRainfed Agriculture
Author: Suhas Pralhad WaniPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 1845933893
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This book, which contains 14 chapters, covers all aspects of rainfed agriculture, starting with its potential, current status, rainwater harvesting and supplementary irrigation, to policies, approaches, institutions for upscaling, and impacts of integrated water management programmes in rainfed areas.
Combined Stresses in Plants
Author: Ramamurthy MahalingamPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319078992
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
The unique responses of plants to combined stresses have been observed at physiological, biochemical, and molecular levels. This book provides an analysis of all three levels of change in various plants in response to different combinations of stresses. The text provides a general review of the combined stress paradigm, focuses on the impact of higher CO2 levels in combination with other stresses, examines drought stress in conjunction with other abiotic factors in different crop plants as well as the combination of biotic and abiotic factors, and discusses the impact of combined stresses in forest ecosystems. Written by experts in the field, Combined Stresses in Plants: Physiological, Molecular, and Biochemical Aspects is a valuable resource for scientists, graduate students, and post-doctoral fellows alike working in plant stresses.
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Author: Modeling Processes and Their Interactions in Cropping Systems
Author: Lajpat R. AhujaPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0891183876
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Modeling Processes and Their Interactions in Cropping Systems A complete discussion of soil-plant-climate-management processes In Modeling Processes and Their Interactions in Cropping Systems: Challenges for the 21st Century, a team of distinguished researchers delivers a comprehensive and up-to-date scientific textbook devoted to teaching the modeling of soil-plant-climate-management processes at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels. The book emphasizes the new opportunities and paradigms available to modern lab and field researchers and aims to improve their understanding and quantification of individual processes and their interactions. The book helps readers quantify field research results in terms of the fundamental theory and concepts broadly generalizable beyond specific sites, as well as predict experimental results from knowledge of the fundamental factors that determine the environment and plant growth in different climates. Readers will also discover: An introduction to water and chemical transport in the soil matrix and macropores Explorations of heat transport, water balance, snowpack, and soil freezing Discussions of merging machine learning with APSIM models to improve the evaluation of the impact of climate extremes on wheat yields in Australia Examinations of the quantification and modeling of management effects on soil properties, including discussions of tillage, reconsolidation, crop residues, and crop management The book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the 2030 breakthroughs in agriculture identified by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
Climate Variability and the Global Harvest
Author: Cynthia RosenzweigPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198031475
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The Earth's climate is constantly changing. Some of the changes are progressive, while others fluctuate at various time scales. The El Niño-la Niña cycle is one such fluctuation that recurs every few years and has far-reaching impacts. It generally appears at least once per decade, but this may vary with our changing climate. The exact frequency, sequence, duration and intensity of El Niño's manifestations, as well as its effects and geographic distributions, are highly variable. The El Niño-la Niña cycle is particularly challenging to study due to its many interlinked phenomena that occur in various locations around the globe. These worldwide teleconnections are precisely what makes studying El Niño-la Niña so important. Cynthia Rosenzweig and Daniel Hillel describe the current efforts to develop and apply a global-to-regional approach to climate-risk management. They explain how atmospheric and social scientists are cooperating with agricultural practitioners in various regions around the world to determine how farmers may benefit most from new climate predictions. Specifically, the emerging ability to predict the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) cycle offers the potential to transform agricultural planning worldwide. Biophysical scientists are only now beginning to recognize the large-scale, globally distributed impacts of ENSO on the probabilities of seasonal precipitation and temperature regimes. Meanwhile, social scientists have been researching how to disseminate forecasts more effectively within rural communities. Consequently, as the quality of climatic predictions have improved, the dissemination and presentation of forecasts have become more effective as well. This book explores the growing understanding of the interconnectedness of climate predictions and productive agriculture for sustainable development, as well as methods and models used to study this relationship.