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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.