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 .
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.
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.
Author(s): Nadia Scialabba, Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nation
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.
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.
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.
Author(s): University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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.