Stubble Over the Soil
Author : Carlos Crovetto Lamarca
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Carlos Crovetto Lamarca
Publisher :
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 38,79 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
Author : Parmod Kumar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8132220145
This book discusses the important issue of the socioeconomic and environmental impacts of agricultural residue burning, common in agricultural practices in many parts of the world. In particular, it focuses on the pollution caused by rice residue burning using primary survey data from Punjab, India. It discusses emerging solutions to agricultural waste burning that are cost-effective in terms of both money and time. The burning of agricultural residue causes severe pollution in land, water and air and contributes to increased ozone levels and climate change in the long term. However, appropriate assessments have not been undertaken so far to demonstrate the relevant impact of agriculture-based pollution, especially residue burning. This book addresses this gap in the literature. Punjab has been used as a case study as it is the chief granary of India, contributing to 27.2 percent of the Indian national produce of rice and 43.8 percent of wheat. It is presumed that the findings from this state will be useful not only for other agricultural areas in India, but across the world. This book, therefore, sensitizes policy makers, researchers and students about the impacts of air pollution caused by agricultural residue burning---a subject not much dealt in the literature---and provides a way forward.
Author : Andy Clark
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1437903797
Cover crops slow erosion, improve soil, smother weeds, enhance nutrient and moisture availability, help control many pests and bring a host of other benefits to your farm. At the same time, they can reduce costs, increase profits and even create new sources of income. You¿ll reap dividends on your cover crop investments for years, since their benefits accumulate over the long term. This book will help you find which ones are right for you. Captures farmer and other research results from the past ten years. The authors verified the info. from the 2nd ed., added new results and updated farmer profiles and research data, and added 2 chap. Includes maps and charts, detailed narratives about individual cover crop species, and chap. about aspects of cover cropping.
Author : New South Wales
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,4 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Stubble mulching
ISBN : 9781742565682
"The Grains Research & Development Corporation has commissioned this review as an update of the Graham Centre monograph no. 1, 'Stubble retention in cropping systems in southern Australia : benefits and challenges'".-- Foreword.
Author :
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 16,38 MB
Release : 1961-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0080563260
Advances in Agronomy
Author : United States. Agricultural Research Service. Soil and Water Conservation Research Division
Publisher :
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release :
Category : Soil conservation
ISBN :
Abstracts for Dec. 1954- issued in the Agricultural Research Service's series ARS-41.
Author :
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461250463
The world population in 1930 was 2 billion. It reached 3 billion in 1960, stands at 4. 6 billion today, and is expected to reach 6 billion by the end of the century. The food and fiber needs of such a rapidly increasing population are enormous. One of the most basic resources, perhaps the most basic of all, for meeting these needs is the soil. There is an urgent need to improve and protect this resource on which the future of mankind directly depends. We must not only learn how to use the soil to furnish our immediate needs, but also ensure that the ability of the soil to sustain food production in the future is unimpaired. This is indeed a mammoth task; a 1977 United Nations survey reported that almost one-fifth of the world's cropland is now being steadily degraded. This volume is the first of a new series entitled Advances in Soil Science. The diversity of soil makes it necessary for research to be conducted in many locations. There are basic principles, however, that are universal. This new series will present clear and concise reviews in all areas of soil science for everyone interested in this basic resource and man's influence on it. The purpose of the series is to provide a forum for leading scientists to analyze and summarize the available scientific information on a subject, assessing its importance and identifYing additional research needs.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 48,81 MB
Release : 1923
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN :
Author : R. C. McConnell
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 13,44 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN :
Author : United States. Soil Conservation Service
Publisher :
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 16,85 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Soil surveys
ISBN :