Catálogo de libros: Agronomía y producción agrícola

966 Catálogo de libros: Agronomía y producción agrícola

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  • Breath of Joy
    Kathy Joy
    SINGING SPRING is a portrait of springtime that trills with reverberating, artful images of everyday life. Where poetry spills over these 50 pages to melt your heart and the heart of one who listens to you reading, an anthem of anticipation is experienced. Calendar events celebrated inside include Good Friday, Easter, strong and kind mothers, memorial day and Father's Day. ...
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    16,26 €

  • Environmental and Management Factor Contributions to Maize Yield
    Agricultural production must increase substantially to meet the increasing per capita demand for food, feed, fuel, and fiber of a rising human census. The amount of arable land is limited due to soil type, weather, and ecosystem considerations; therefore, it is necessary to increase yields on current fields. To obtain the greatest maize (Zea mays L.) yield, a farmer needs to nu...
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    59,72 €

  • Critical issues in plant health
    This collection summarises 50 years of research on plant health by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) to improve the health of crops in Africa. It will be a standard reference on improving the management of pests and diseases in developing countries. ...
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    283,92 €

  • Novel Technologies and Systems for Food Preservation
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    340,61 €

  • Bioenergy Crops for Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
    Alex Baumber
    The growing of crops for bioenergy has been subject to recent criticism, as taking away land which could be used for food production or biodiversity conservation. This book challenges some commonly-held ideas about biofuels, bioenergy and energy cropping, particularly that energy crops pose an inherent threat to ecosystems. ...
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    78,80 €

  • Biotic and Abiotic Stress Responses in Crop Plants
    While the demand for crop products continues to increase strongly, agricultural productivity is threatened by various stress factors, often associated with global warming. To sustain and improve yield, it is necessary to understand how plants respond to various stresses, and to use the generated knowledge in modern breeding programs. Most knowledge regarding the molecular mecha...
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    67,82 €

  • Biotechnological Interventions for Dryland Agriculture
    G Pakki Reddy / P S Janaki Krishna
    1. Biological Interventions and Dryland Agriculture, 2. Food Security and Poverty Alleviation Through Application of Biotechnology, 3. Agricultural Biotechnologies for Resource Poor Farmers: A Case Study of the Andhra Pradesh Netherlands Biotechnology Programme, 4. Biotechnologies for Resource Poor Farmers of Zimbabwe, 5. Molecular Markers Breeding for Drought Tolerance in Maiz...
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    48,72 €

  • Principles and Practice of Agricultural Meterology
    S Venkatraman
    The book deals with (i) all aspects of the direct and indirect effects of weather and atmospheric elements on production, protection  and water needs of crops (ii) influences of micro-climates, morphology, physiology and growth stages of crops in differential responses of crops to weather vagaries and weather-induced setbacks and (iii) agrometeorological (a) irrigation scheduli...
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    77,59 €

  • Postharvest Extension and Capacity Building for the Developing World
    This book provides information on postharvest extension/outreach programs, capacity building and practical methodologies for postharvest extension professionals and food science teachers, food process trainers and outreach specialists working in the field. Chapters will cover postharvest extension work and capacity building in a range of regions. ...
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    325,36 €

  • Improving organic crop cultivation
    Organic crop cultivation needs to improve yields if it is to expand its share of agricultural production. This collection reviews ways of addressing this challenge, from developing better varieties to ways of improving crop nutrition and pest control. ...
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    346,42 €

  • Precision agriculture for sustainability
    By using resources more efficiently, precision agriculture can make farming more productive and sustainable. This collection reviews current research on key technologies in precision agriculture and its applications. ...
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    297,82 €

  • Advances in Tea Agronomy
    M. K. V. Carr / MKVCarr
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    140,49 €

  • Integrated disease management of wheat and barley
    Diseases remain a serious problem in cereal cultivation. The first parts of the book review current research on fungal diseases of cereals and the challenge of fungicide resistance. The book then discusses breeding resistant varieties and methods for integrated disease management of cereals. ...
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    331,92 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of bananas Volume 1
    Bananas are the world’s most popular fruit and the fourth most important crop in the developing world after rice, wheat and maize. The volume reviews current production around the world and how developments in cultivation practice can be used to improve yields sustainably. ...
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    297,38 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 2
    The second of this two-volume collection discusses ways of improving cultivation across the supply chain from seed selection and planting to post-harvest storage. It also reviews research on the better understanding and management of key pests and diseases. ...
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    283,38 €

  • Biofuel Cropping Systems
    Choosing appropriate practices and policies for biofuel production requires an understanding of how soils, climate, farm types, infrastructure, markets and social organisation affect the establishment and performance of these crops. The book highlights land use dynamics, cultivation practices related to conversion and wider impacts. It explores how biofuel production chain deve...
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    52,74 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of cocoa
    Cocoa cultivation faces a number of significant challenges, including stagnating yields, a narrow genetic base, vulnerability to pests and diseases and environmental impact. This volume reviews how research is addressing these challenges in areas such as breeding and agronomy, understanding and managing the range of diseases affecting cocoa, as well as ways of measuring and imp...
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    381,08 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of potatoes Volume 1
    Potatoes have long been one of the world’s most important crops. The first volume in this two-volume sequence reviews advances in understanding plant physiology, genetics and breeding. It also discusses ways of understanding the nutritional and sensory properties of potatoes. ...
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    248,77 €

  • Pesticides and agriculture
    Dave Watson / Dr Dave Watson
    Pesticides have played a critical but sometimes controversial role in the development of agriculture. This book provides an authoritative account of the development of the modern pesticides industry in the context of broader developments in global agriculture. ...
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    318,26 €

  • Amaranth
    Robert L. Myers
    This is the fascinating story of amaranth, a crop from the ancient past that is being resurrected as a modern, nutritious, gluten-free food. First used over 6000 years ago, amaranth reached its peak of popularity in the time of the Aztec empire in the early 1500s. After the arrival of Cortez and his Spanish conquistadors in 1519, amaranth nearly disappeared from history.Now, ne...
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    23,82 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 1
    Sorghum is the fifth most important cereal crop (after rice, maize, wheat and barley). The first volume in this two-volume collection reviews advances in understanding sorghum physiology and genetics as well as developments in breeding new varieties and their more efficient cultivation. ...
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    297,94 €

  • Winery
    Richard A Occhetti
    In his first book, Richard A. Occhetti reveals the 'behind the scenes' moments in a winery. He focuses on the Nassau Valley winery in Lewes, Delaware. He gives the reader an insider's view on the people, processes, and resources required to make good wine.  ...
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    13,83 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of soybeans Volume 1
    Soybeans are widely grown for use in food, animal feed and other products such as biodiesel. The first of this two-volume collections reviews advances in understanding of soybean physiology and genetics as well as breeding and more efficient methods of cultivation. ...
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    235,00 €

  • CROP BIOTECHNOLOGY
    NIGEL G HALFORD
    Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes, coupled with the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants, eventually led to the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid-1990s. This was seen as the...
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    119,98 €

  • CROP BIOTECHNOLOGY
    NIGEL G HALFORD
    Plant molecular biology came to the fore in the early 1980s and there has been tremendous growth in the subject since then. The study of plant genes and genomes, coupled with the development of techniques for the incorporation of novel or modified genes into plants, eventually led to the commercialisation of genetically modified (GM) crops in the mid-1990s. This was seen as the...
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    59,86 €

  • A Second Look
    Edward H. Faulkner / Edward HFaulkner
    Edward H. Faulkner startled the agricultural world—all of it, on six continents—when he published Plowman’s Folly in 1943. As almost everyone knows, he launched a vigorous attack on the plow and dseveloped in a masterful way the advantages of surface incorporation of organic material. The Readers Digest summed up American interest at the time in the statement, “Probably no book...
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    31,23 €

  • Environmental Justice and Soy Agribusiness
    Robert Hafner
    This book analyses situations of injustice occurring when there is no overt conflict, applying an environmental justice incommensurabilities framework to a case study of soy agribusiness in Argentina. ...
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    240,96 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of sorghum Volume 2
    Volume 2 in this sequence summarises key research on the wide range of uses of sorghum as food, animal feed and for biofuel. It also assesses the challenges of growing sorghum in different parts of the world and how these are being addressed. ...
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    213,99 €

  • The Commons, Plant Breeding and Agricultural Research
    This book shows how social science can contribute towards reconfiguring legal frameworks to achieve a balance between the requirements of agricultural innovation and access to genetic resources and protection of agrobiodiversity. ...
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    254,12 €

  • Achieving sustainable cultivation of oil palm Volume 2
    The second in this two-volume sequence discusses advances in understanding and managing pests and diseases. It also reviews ways of assessing its nutritional qualities as well as in measuring and minimising its environment impact. ...
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    297,66 €


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