Agricultural sustainability : progress and prospects in crop research /

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Collaboratively written by top international experts and established scientists in various fields of agricultural research, this book focuses on the state of food production and sustainability; the problems with degradation of valuable sources of land, water, and air and their effects on food crops;...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bhullar, Gurbir S., Bhullar, Navreet K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Waltham, MA : Academic Press, ©2013.
Temas:
Sustainable agriculture.
Crops > Ecology.
Crop yields.
Food supply.
Agricultural systems.
Agriculture durable.
Cultures > Rendement.
Systèmes agricoles.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
agronomie
agronomy
veldgewassen
field crops
duurzaamheid (sustainability)
sustainability
gewasproductie
crop production
voedselproductie
food production
agrobiodiversiteit
agro-biodiversity
biologische landbouw
organic farming
teeltsystemen
cropping systems
plantenbiotechnologie
plant biotechnology
Plant Production Systems
Plantaardige productiesystemen
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Functional agrobiodiversity : the key to sustainability? / Paolo Bàrberi
  • Organic agriculture : driving innovations in crop research / Dionys Forster, Noah Adamtey, Monika M. Messmer, Lukas Pfiffner, Brian Baker, Beate Huber and Urs Niggli
  • Guar : an industrial crop from marginal farms / N.A. Kuravadi, S. Verma, S. Pareek, P. Gahlot, S. Kumari, U.K. Tanwar, P. Bhatele, M. Choudhary, K.S. Gill, V. Pruthi, S.K. Tripathi, K.S. Dhugga and G.S. Randhawa
  • Nitrogen use as a component of sustainable crop systems / Amritbir Riar and David Coventry
  • Potential of management practices and amendments for preventing nutrient deficiencies in field crops under organic cropping systems / Sukhdev S. Malhi, Tarlok S. Sahota, and Kabal S. Gill
  • Effective management of scarce water resources in north-west India / Sudhir-Yadav, Balwinder-Singh, Elizabeth Humphreys and Surinder Singh Kukal
  • Modeling for agricultural sustainability : a review / Mukhtar Ahmed, Muhammad Asif, Arvind H. Hirani Mustazar N. Akram and Aakash Goyal
  • Biotechnological approaches for increasing productivity and sustainability of rice production / D.S. Brar and G.S. Khush
  • Biofortification of staple crops / Vishal Chugh and Harcharan S. Dhaliwal
  • Nutrient-focused processing of rice / Nadina Müller-Fischer
  • Virus resistance breeding in cool season food legumes : integrating traditional and molecular approaches / Shalu Jain, Kevin McPhee, Ajay Kumar, Reyazul Rouf Mir and Ravinder Singh
  • Talking agricultural sustainability issues : an interview with Dr. Gurdev Khush / Gurbir S. Bhullar
  • Economics and politics of farm subsidies in India / S.S. Johl
  • Public-private partnership and policy reforms for effective agricultural research, development, and training : a viewpoint / Sant S. Virmani
  • Contract-farming for production and procurement of mint : lessons from personal experience / Tarlok S. Sahota.

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