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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Author(s): College of Agriculture, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi
Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur
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.
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.