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Agriculture Books

There are many online resources where you can find free Agriculture books to download in PDF format, including online textbooks, ebooks, lecture notes, and more, covering basic, beginner, and advanced concepts for those looking for an introduction to the subject or a deeper understanding of it.

Lecture Note on Agriculture

This lecture note explains the following topics: The evolution of agriculture, Agro ecosystem, Impact of agriculture on environment, Impact of environment on agriculture, Sustainability the new paradigm, Land, Water, Biodiversity, Energy, Off farm inputs, Integrated resource management, Integrated farming systems, Integrated disease, Pest and weed management, Imperatives, New technologies, Agricultural waste management and Alternative management.

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s 398Pages

Lecture Note on Agricultural Economics

This lecture note covers the following topics: demand for farm products, Supply of farm products, Economics of production and resource use and instability in agriculture, Risk and uncertainty, Rural money market, Labour market, Types of employer employee relationship, Land and lease markets and Economics of share tenancy.

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s 178Pages

Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Department

This note covers Agriculture, Horticulture and Plantation Crops, Agricultural Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Sugar, Seed Certification and Organic Certification, Agricultural Marketing and Agri Business, Tamil Nadu Watershed Development Agency and Demand.

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s 254Pages

Agriculture Notes by Kakungulu Memorial School

This note covers the following topics: Problems Of Agriculture In Uganda, Solution For Agriculture Problems, Climate And Agriculture, Effects Of Rainfall In Agriculture, Farming Practices, Classification Of Vegetables,crop Protection, Biological Control, Pests, Crop Diseases, Agro Forestry, Management Of Cattle, Livestock Breeding.

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s 243Pages

Training Manual for Organic Agriculture

This PDF Training Manual for Organic Agriculture covers the following topics related to Agriculture : Introduction to Organic Agriculture, Considerations for Conversion to Organic Agriculture, Mixed farm, Degraded land, Water Management in Organic Agriculture, Crop Planning and Management in Organic Agriculture, Nutrient Management in Organic Agriculture, Pest and Disease Management in Organic Agriculture, Weed Management in Organic Agriculture, Soil Cultivation and Tillage in Organic Agriculture, Plant Propagation in Organic Agriculture, Animal Husbandry in Organic Agriculture.

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s 105Pages

Basic Agriculture Student Handbook

Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy, as we are growing hundreds of cereals, pulses, oil seeds, fruits and vegetables. Topics covered includes: Agricultural Production and Management, Production and Management of Horticultural Crops, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, Post Production Handling, Packaging and Processing of Animal Products, Seed Production and Nursery Management, Entrepreneurial Skill Development.

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s 208Pages

Crop Production Guide Agriculture

The Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, is playing a pivotal role in design and development of crop varieties,technologies and farm implements to suit the prevailing situations and adapt to the climate change scenarios. This book provides guidance to the production of following crops: Rice, Millets, Wheat, Pulses, Oilseeds, Fibre Crops, Sugarcane , Sweet Sorghum, Tropical Sugarbeet, Forage Crops, Green Manure Crops, Mushroom Cultivation , Composting And Industrial Waste Water, Agro Forestry, Integrated Farming System, Weeds, Soil Related Constraints and Their Management , Chisel Technology, Surge Irrigation, Micro Irrigation, Agrometeorology, Farm Implements And Machinery .

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s 460Pages

The First Book of Farming

The object in presenting the book to the general public is the hope that it may be of assistance to farmers, students and teachers, in their search for the fundamental truths and principles of farming. Topics covered includes: Roots, Soils, Relation Of Soils To Water, Forms Of Soil Water, Loss Of Soil Water, Soil Temperature, Plant Food In The Soil, Seeds, Seed Planting, Spading And Plowing, Harrowing And Rolling, Leaves, A Fertile Soil, Soil Water, Farm Manures, Commercial Fertilizers, Rotation Of Crops, Farm Drainage.

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s NAPages

Urban Horticulture

This book covers a wide array of topics on the subject Urban Horticulture and constitutes a valuable reference guide for students, professors, researchers, builders,  and horticulturists concerned with urban horticulture, city planning, biodiversity, and the sustainable development of horticultural resources.

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Manual of Gardening by L. H. Bailey

This book is a result of the author's search for these facts and truths as a student and farmer and his endeavor as a teacher to present them in a simple manner to others. The object in presenting the book to the general public is the hope that it may be of assistance to farmers, students and teachers, in their search for the fundamental truths and principles of farming.

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Nitrogen in Agriculture

Nitrogen is the most yield-restraining nutrient in crop production globally. Efficient nitrogen management is one of the most important factor for improving nitrogen use efficiency, field crops productivity and profitability. Topics covered includes: Inter and Intra Annual Variability of Nitrogen Concentrations in the Headwaters of the Mero River, Nitrogen Transformations Associated with N2O Emissions in Agricultural Soils, Controlled-Release Fertilizers as a Means to Reduce Nitrogen Leaching and Runoff in Container-Grown Plant Production, Effects of Heat Treatments on the Quality of Organic Wastes as a Nitrogen Fertilizer, Nitrogen Fixation and Transfer in Agricultural Production Systems, Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Rice, Prospects of N Fertilization in Medicinal Plants Cultivation

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Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement

This book covers the following topics: Natural strength of land, Plant constituents, Organic matter, Drainage, The Need of Lime, Applying Lime, Crop-rotation, Fertilizers , Tillage, Control of soil moisture.

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Toxicity and Hazard of Agrochemicals

This book is intended to provide an overview of toxicology that examines the hazardous effects of common agrochemicals employed every day in our agricultural practices. It is hoped that the information in the present book will be of value to those directly engaged in the handling and use of agrochemicals and that this book will continue to meet the expectations and needs of all interested in the different aspects of human and environmental risk toxicities.

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Farm and Ranch Management

The objectives of this note are to introduce you to principles of management and decision making that are applicable to farm and ranch firms and other agricultural businesses, and to develop skills in applying these principles to realistic management situations. Topics covered includes: Role of Management, Tools of Financial Management, Application of Economic Principles in Management, Planning and Enterprise budgets, Business Organization, Decision making under uncertainty.

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Automation in Agriculture

This book intends to provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and automation examples in agriculture. Topics covered includes: The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Precision Agriculture, Trends of Engineering Systems Evolution and Agricultural Technology, Review of Variable-Rate Sprayer Applications Based on Real- Time Sensor Technologies, Robotic Harvesting of Fruiting Vegetables: A Simulation Approach in V-REP, ROS and MATLAB, Machine Vision Systems – A Tool for Automatic Color Analysis in Agriculture, Automation of Integrated System for Grain Beverages Processing, The Effect of Vermicompost and Other Fertilizers on the Growth and Productivity of Pepper Plants in Guyana.

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Illinois Agronomy Handbook

This guide explains the following topics: Weather and Crops Steven, Corn, Soybean, Small Grains and Grain, Cropping Systems, Hay and Pasture, Water Quality, Managing Soil pH and Crop Nutrients, Managing Nitrogen, Soil Management and Tillage, Water Management, Weed Management, Managing Insect Pests, Managing Diseases and Nematodes.

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North Carolina Extension Gardener Handbook

This book covers the following topics: Soils and Plant Nutrients, Composting, Botany, Insects, Diseases and Disorders, Weeds, Diagnostics,IPM, Lawns, Herbaceous Ornamentals, Woody Ornamentals, Native Plants, Propagation, , small Fruits, Tree Fruits and Nuts, Vegetable Gardening, Organic Gardening, Plants Grown in containers, Landscape Design, Wildlife, Youth, Community, and Therapeutic Gardening.

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Urban Agriculture by Mohamed Samer

This book provides useful information about Urban Agriculture, which includes the production of crops in small to large lots, vertical production on walls, windows, rooftops, urban gardens, farmer's markets, economic models of urban gardening, peri-urban agricultural systems, and spatial planning and evolution of the land uses. Additionally, this book elucidates further agricultural technologies, such as the aquaculture systems.

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s 138Pages

Alternative Crops and Cropping Systems

Crop diversity is a key tenet of sustainable agriculture. Having multiple crops that fill distinct niches in an agro eco system improves the ability to manage weeds, diseases and insect pests as well as potentially improving the environmental performance of the cropping system. The goal was to write a book where as many different existing studies as possible could be presented in a single volume, making it easy for the reader to compare methods, results and conclusions.

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s 170Pages

Production Economics and Farm Management

This note explains the following topics: Production Economics, Nature and scope of Agricultural Production Economics, Basic concepts and terms, Meaning and types of production functions, Laws of returns, Factor-product relationship, Determination of optimum input and output, Factor-factor relationship, product-product relationship, Type of enterprise relationship, Returns to scale: meaning, definition, importance, Farm management ,Typical farm management decisions, Economic principles applied to the organization of farm business, Types and systems of farming, Cost concepts and farm efficiency, Farm planning and budgeting, Risk and uncertainty, Linear programming: Assumption, advantages and limitations of linear programming.

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s 71Pages

Master Gardener Manual

This book provides information on environmentally responsible gardening and landscaping. Topics covered includes: Basic Botany, Physiology, and Environmental Effects on Plant Growth, Soils and Fertilizers, Entomology, Plant Pathology, Diagnosing Plant Damage, Pesticide Use and Safety, Plant Propagation, Indoor Plants, The Vegetable Gardening, Fruit Trees, Arboriculture,Pest and Pest Prevention.

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Agricultural Economics

This note explains the following topics: Principles of Agricultural Economics, Fundamentals of Rural Sociology and Educational Psychology, Production Economics and Farm Management, Agricultural Finance, Agricultural Marketing, Fundamentals of Farm Business Management Including Project Development Appraisal & Monitoring, Management of Agro-based Industry, Marketing Management, Natural Resource Economics, Project Formulation Evaluation and Monitoring.

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Crop Production

The book focus on challenges, progress and prospects of crop production. It comprises of vast array of topics including latest agronomics practices for different crops to enhance productivity, mitigate the challenges imposed by climate change, improve water use efficiency, factors controlling dormancy, optimum use of fertilizers etc.

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s 189Pages

Plant Breeding from Laboratories to Fields

During the last 50 years plant breeding has entered a molecular era based on molecular tools to analyse DNA, RNA and proteins and associate such molecular results with plant phenotype. Marker trait associations develop fast to enable more efficient breeding. However, they still leave a major part of breeding to be performed through selection of phenotypes using quantitative genetic tools. The ten chapters of this book illustrate this development.

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s 288Pages

Farm science; a foundation textbook on agriculture

The aim of this book is to explain to the farm boy the facts about farming that have puzzled him. There are many mysteries that are not mysteries to. the average boy, for the simple reason that he has never recognized their existence. No attempt is made in these pages to introduce the student to new mysteries except such as are necessary in connection with a proper explanation of those he has actually met in his experience on the farm. The primary idea underlying the book is to enable the farm boy to understand the reasons for the things he has observed but does not understand.

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s 368Pages

The Elements of Agriculture

This book is intended as a sequel to the Elements of Agriculture, being a larger and more complete work, containing fuller directions for the treatment of the different kinds of soils, for the preparation of manures, and especially for the drainage of lands, whether level,rolling, hilly, or springy.

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Agricultural Finance and Co operation (PDF 96P)

This note covers the following topics: Time Value of Money, Agricultural Credit, Credit Analysis, History of Financing Agri , Commercial Banks, Regional Rural Banks, Higher Financing Institutions, Insurance and Credit, Crop Insurance and Agricultural Cooperation.

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Agriculture and Ecosystems (PDF 22P)

Aim of this note is to teach the students about the connections between the food they eat, agriculture and ecosystems and then it describes the health, environmental, social and economic problems in agriculture. Topics covered includes: Tracing food to soil, Food, agriculture and ecosystems, Problems in agriculture, Assessing and addressing problems and Alternative farming systems.

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Bee Keeping Basics (PDF 102p)

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An Introduction to Agriculture and Agronomy (PDF 21p)

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Introduction to agricultural water pollution

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Agriculture and the environment

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An introduction to agriculture statistics (PDF 98p)

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THE ORIGINS OF AGRICULTURE and HUMAN NUTRITION Lecture Notes

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Food and Agriculture Powerpoint Lecture

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Agriculture lecture notes (PPT)

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Principles of Agricultural Economics (PDF 86p)

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Agriculture, Food, Natural Resource Issues

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Farm Management and Production Economics (PDF 87p)

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