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  • Conceptual Basis, Formalisations and Parameterization of the Stics Crop Model

    by Nadine Brisson, Marie Launay, Bruno Mary, Nicolas Beaudoin ...
    Series series Update Sciences & technologies
    The STICS crop model has been developed since 1996 at INRA in collaboration with other research and technical institutes. The model syntheses, illustrates and concretizes an important part of the French agronomic knowledge as a point of view on the field and cropping systems working. The formalisations of the STICS crop model presented in this book can be considered as references used in the ... Read more

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  • Insects of Stored Products

    by David Rees ...
    Insect infestations in grains and other stored food and fibre products cause annual losses worth many millions of dollars worldwide. This illustrated guide enables specialists and non-specialists to distinguish the major pests of durable stored products found throughout the world. It describes how to identify each pest group or species and summarises the latest information on their biology, ... Read more

    PHP2,180.39

  • Diseases of Vegetable Crops in Australia

    Edited by Denis Persley, Tony Cooke, Susan House ...
    Diseases of Vegetable Crops in Australia provides a diagnostic guide and a key reference for diseases affecting vegetable crops in Australia. This is an extensively revised and expanded edition of a previous publication that was a standard reference for the Australian vegetable industry. Authors from across Australia provide essential information about the important diseases affecting most ... Read more

    PHP5,666.09

  • Pigs, Poultry and Poo

    An Urbanite Couple's Journey to Country Life

    by Jason Gibbs ...
    Pigs, Poultry and Poo is the story of two people who change their lives and discover a whole new world. Their first step is a move from living and working in the city to rural life and a two-hour commute. Over the five years recounted in the book they mature from feckless beginners to hardened country folk, shedding only the occasional tear when an animal dies. Their animal adventures start with a ... Read more

    PHP645.19

  • Integrated Pest Management

    Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective

    Edited by Dharam P. Abrol ...
    Integrated Pest Management: Current Concepts and Ecological Perspective presents an overview of alternative measures to traditional pest management practices using biological control and biotechnology. The removal of some highly effective broad-spectrum chemicals, caused by concerns over environmental health and public safety, has resulted in the development of alternative, reduced risk crop ... Read more

    PHP5,306.69

  • Organic Tobacco Growing in America

    And Other Earth-Friendly Farming

    by Mike Little, Fielding Daniel ...
    When a small company dedicated to doing things differently decided some twenty years ago to make as natural a tobacco product as possible, they turned to America’s tobacco farmers and proposed an unheard of proposition: How about growing organic tobacco? Today, demand for organic tobacco leaf is doubling each year. But when it was first proposed, there were more than a few skeptics. Now, many are ... Read more

    PHP573.19

  • Land of Sweeping Plains

    Managing and Restoring the Native Grasslands of South-eastern Australia

    Edited by Adrian Marshall, Nicholas Williams, John Morgan ...
    Native temperate grasslands are Australia’s most threatened ecosystems. Grasslands have been eliminated from across much of their former extent and continue to be threatened by urban expansion, agricultural intensification, weed invasion and the uncertain impacts of climate change. Research, however, is showing us new ways to manage grasslands, and techniques for restoration are advancing. The ... Read more

    PHP2,516.19

  • Bee Keeping in North Carolina - A Study of Some Statistics on the Industry with Suggestions and Conclusions

    by Franklin Sherman ...
    This is a study of reports from 360 American bee-keepers concerning different types of bees, how and where the highest yields are achieved, the development of techniques, best honey-plants, and much more. Based on information from the owners of over 10,400 colonies, the results of this study will be of considerable utility to both those who keep bees for pleasure and for profit. Contents include: ... Read more

    PHP407.46 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Desert Olive Oil Cultivation

    Advanced Bio Technologies

    by Zeev Wiesman ...
    Due to the adverse stress conditions typical of olive cultivation in desert conditions, the olive tree is responding with production of high levels of antioxidant substances. Among these substances are polyphenols, tocopherols, and phytosterols. Studies have shown that saline irrigated varieties of olives have demonstrated advantages over those irrigated with tap water. This is just one of the ... Read more

    PHP4,394.89

  • Advances in Tea Agronomy

    by M. K. V. Carr ...
    Tea is big business. After water, tea is believed to be the most widely consumed beverage in the world. And yet, as productivity increases, the real price of tea declines while labour costs continue to rise. Tea remains a labour intensive industry. With a distinguished career spanning over 50 years and rich experience in diverse crops, Mike Carr is eminently qualified to indulge in an intelligent ... Read more

    PHP5,735.99

  • Global tea science

    Current status and future needs

    by Dr Tapan Kumar Mondal, Dr M. A. Wijeratne, Prof. P. Okinda Owuor, Shipra Singh, Dr Anita Pandey, Lok Man S. Palni, Dr P. N. Bhattacharyya, S. R. Sarmah, Dr G. D. Sinniah, Dr Nalini C. Gnanapragasam, Dr A.K Barooah, Ting Zhang, Xiaojian Lv, Yin Xu, Lanying Xu, Tao Long, Prof. Chi-Tang Ho, Dr Shiming Li, Prof. Chung S. Yang, Dr Wenyan Han, Jian-Qiang Ma, Xin Li, Peng Yan, Liping Zhang, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Dr Thushari Lakmini Wijeratne, Dr Nikhil Ghosh Hajra, Dr Atik Dharmadi, Prof. Liang Chen, Dr Xinchao Wang, Xinyuan Hao, Lu Wang, Yajun Yang, Dr Mainaak Mukhopadhaya ...
    Series Book 41 - Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
    Reviews the latest advances in understanding tea genetics and genetic diversity and how this has informed advances in conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises current best practice in cultivation techniques and the control of pests and diseasesFocuses on assessing the environmental impact of tea cultivation ... Read more

    PHP12,889.69

  • Pesticide Risk Assessment in Rice Paddies: Theory and Practice

    Edited by Ettore Capri, Dimitrios Karpouzas ...
    Rice is cultivated throughout the world under submerged conditions. The high water requirements and the heavy pesticide load used in rice paddies worldwide have resulted in contamination of associated surface water, such as streams, ditches, rivers and lakes. The uniform risk assessment approach which has been developed for other crops is not applicable to rice paddies, because of the specific ... Read more

    PHP13,675.49