Introduction to Crop Husbandry
eBook - PDF

Introduction to Crop Husbandry

(Including Grassland)

  1. 268 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Introduction to Crop Husbandry

(Including Grassland)

About this book

Introduction to Crop Husbandry, Fifth Edition presents major revisions, discussing more updated information on the science and practice of crop husbandry, including grassland, compared with those topics presented in the previous edition. This book aims to cater the need of students for a reference material that presents practical, simplified, and easily understandable studies on the subject. Specifically, this text discusses growth and development of plants, drainage and irrigation, types and management of soils, modern practices of growing and harvesting crops, and management of grassland. This introductory book also includes topics on conservation; usual life cycles of common pests and illnesses; and the developments in the use of chemicals as fertilizers and in the control of weeds, pests, and diseases. This text will be very invaluable to students of agriculture, crop husbandry, and related fields.

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Information

Publisher
Pergamon
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9780080297934
eBook ISBN
9781483190563
Edition
5
Topic
Technology & Engineering
Subtopic
Agriculture
Index
Technology & Engineering

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Introduction to Crop Husbandry: (including Grassland)
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. FOREWORD
  6. PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
  7. PREFACE TO THE FIFTH EDITION
  8. INTRODUCTION
  9. CHAPTER 1. PLANTS
  10. CHAPTER 2. SOILS
  11. CHAPTER 3. FERTILIZERS AND MANURES
  12. CHAPTER 4. CROPPING
  13. CHAPTER 5. GRASSLAND
  14. CHAPTER 6. WEEDS
  15. CHAPTER 7. PESTS AND DISEASES OF FARM CROPS
  16. APPENDIX 1: WORLD CROP PRODUCTION
  17. APPENDIX 2: METRICATION
  18. APPENDIX 3: AGRICULTURAL LAND CLASSIFICATION IN ENGLAND AND WALES
  19. APPENDIX 4: FACTORS AFFECTING THE APPLICATION (AND MIXING) OF CROP PROTECTION CHEMICALS
  20. APPENDIX 5: CROPS
  21. APPENDIX 6: WEEDS
  22. APPENDIX 7: CROP DISEASES
  23. APPENDIX 8: INSECT PESTS
  24. APPENDIX 9: CROP SEEDS
  25. APPENDIX 10: THE DECIMAL CODE FOR GROWTH STAGES OF ALL SMALL GRAIN CEREALS (ZADOK'S AND OTHERS)
  26. APPENDIX 11: THE GROSS MARGIN SYSTEM OF ANALYSIS
  27. APPENDIX 12: ESTIMATING CROP YIELDS FROM RANDOM SAMPLE WEIGHINGS
  28. APPENDIX 13: FARMING AND WILDLIFE CONSERVATION
  29. APPENDIX 14: THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY (EEC) OR EUROPEAN COMMUNITY (EC) OR COMMON MARKET
  30. INDEX