The Agricultural Sky

Author : K. R. Krishna
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781000729344

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The Agricultural Sky by K. R. Krishna Pdf

"The agricultural sky" is a dominant natural entity that has influenced, interacted with, and guided the evolution of crops, farming practices, and cropping systems. The sky—and all its components—above and near agricultural areas is an important aspect of an agricultural enterprise—as important as soils, water, and crop species. The blue sky above crops that is seemingly clear, tranquil or sometimes filled with clouds, is really a repository of a large number of gases, mineral or organic particulate matter, dust, mist, turbulent wind, innumerable species of micro-organisms, tiny biotic flora/fauna, seeds, insects, etc. The agrarian sky supports complex interactions of biotic and abiotic aspects with perhaps immediate and/or delayed influence on crops sown on the ground. This volume helps us to better understand the importance of the sky above crop fields, with the goal to encourage revolutionary agronomic procedures that lead to higher yield. It is a comprehensive treatise on the agriculture sky, covering basic definitions, limits, and explanations about atmospheric layers like troposphere, stratosphere, and the phyllosphere. The volume addresses the nutrient dynamics in the sky and their relevance to crop productivity. It looks at both natural biotic and manmade abiotic factors in the sky and how they affect what goes on below, such as from dust storms, at cloudy and/or windy locations, and from high-altitude jet streams. The author discusses wind and solar power generation in the agrarian sky and explores aeroponics to revolutionize crop production. The volume delves into several types of aerial robots, employing AI and other technology, to provide aerial spectral data that are capable of analyzing procedures, soil conditions, irrigation, insect pests, weed detection, herbicide application, soil fertility, and much more. The book includes examples from the North American Great Plains, Pampas of Argentina, Sahelian production zones of West Africa, Indo-Gangetic Plains, etc. This eye-opening book, The Agricultural Sky: A Concept to Revolutionize Farming, will be useful to students and professors in universities as well as to researchers in industry dealing with aerial aspects of farming.

Author : Robert A. Heinlein
Publisher : Baen Publishing Enterprises
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781618246622

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Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein Pdf

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." ¾Robert A. Heinlein, from Time Enough for Love. Be Prepared _ Or Die! Bill Lermer travels with his father, stepmother and stepsister to colonize a Jovian moon in the process of being terraformed. Out here, self-reliance is the key to survival¾and Bill finds that his Boy Scout motto isn't merely a pretty saying. It's a necessary rule for survival! This is it: what we think is the best of the classic Robert Heinlein adventure novels that influenced a generation of engineers and space scientists and still set the heart racing and the mind afire! At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).

Author : Isabel Hoch,Andy Plunkett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 0646406930

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Tractors Under the Sky by Isabel Hoch,Andy Plunkett Pdf

Author : Virginia. Department of Agriculture and Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924055164234

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Annual Report of the Commissioner and the Board of Agriculture and Immigration by Virginia. Department of Agriculture and Commerce Pdf

Author : Liz Carlisle
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642832228

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Healing Grounds by Liz Carlisle Pdf

A powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman, that’s meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back the buffalo. For another, it’s meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn, beans, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the “American wars” in Southeast Asia. In Healing Grounds, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous, Black, Latinx, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies, nurturing beneficial fungi, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This, Carlisle shows, is the true regenerative agriculture – not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people. Cultivating this kind of regenerative farming will require reckoning with our nation’s agricultural history—a history marked by discrimination and displacement. And it will ultimately require dismantling power structures that have blocked many farmers of color from owning land or building wealth. The task is great, but so is its promise. By coming together to restore these farmlands, we can not only heal our planet, we can heal our communities and ourselves.

Author : Virginia. Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : PSU:000053051714

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Report by Virginia. Board of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2907702

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Report by Virginia. Dept. of Agriculture and Commerce Pdf

Author : Virginia. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89047983747

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Reports by Virginia. State Board of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Virginia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Virginia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105117318050

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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia by Virginia Pdf

Author : Virginia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Administrative agencies
ISBN : PRNC:32101080200502

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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards, and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia, for the Year Ending September 30 ... by Virginia Pdf

Author : Takeshima, Hiroyuki,Joshi, Pramod Kumar
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Protected agriculture, precision agriculture, and vertical farming: Brief reviews of issues in the literature focusing on the developing region in Asia by Takeshima, Hiroyuki,Joshi, Pramod Kumar Pdf

The frontiers of technologies have been constantly expanded in many industries around the world, including the agricultural sector. Among many “frontier technologies” in agriculture, are protected agriculture, precision agriculture, and vertical farming, all of which depart substantially from many conventional agricultural production methods. It is not yet clear how these technologies can become adoptable in developing countries, including, for example, South Asian countries like India. This paper briefly reviews the issues associated withthese three types of frontier technologies. We do so by systematically checkingthe academic articleslisted in Google Scholar, which primarily focus on these technologies in developing countries in Asia. Where appropriate, a few widely-cited overview articles for each technology were also reviewed. The findings generally reveal where performances of these technologiescan be raised potentially, based on the general trends in the literature. Where evidence is rich, some generalizable economic insights about these technologies are provided. For protected agriculture, recent research has focusedsignificantly on various features of protective structures (tunnel heights, covering materials, shading structures, frames and sizes) indicating that there are potentials for adaptive research on such structures to raise the productivity of protected agriculture. The research on protected agriculture also focuses on types of climate parameters controlled, andenergy structures, among others. For precision agriculture, recent research has focused on the spatial variability of production environments, development of efficient and suitable data management systems, efficiency of various types of image analyses and optical sensing, efficiency of sensors and related technologies, designs of precision agriculture equipment, optimal inputs and service uses, and their spatial allocations, potentials of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and nano-technologies. For vertical farming, research has often highlighted the variations in technologies based on out-door / indoor systems, ways to improve plants’ access to light (natural or artificial), growing medium and nutrient / water supply, advanced features like electricity generation and integration of production space into an office / residential space, and water treatment. For India, issues listed above may be some of the key areas that the country can draw on from other more advanced countries in Asia, or can focus in its adaptive research to improve the relevance and applicability of these technologies to the country.

Author : Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:$B647864

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Annual Report of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Michigan State University by Michigan State University. Agricultural Experiment Station Pdf

Author : Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 822 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B2938410

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The Agricultural Journal of the Cape of Good Hope by Cape of Good Hope (Colony). Dept. of Agriculture Pdf

Author : Eric Toensmeier
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781603585729

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The Carbon Farming Solution by Eric Toensmeier Pdf

With carbon farming, agriculture ceases to be part of the climate problem and becomes a critical part of the solution Agriculture is rightly blamed as a major culprit of our climate crisis. But in this groundbreaking new book, Eric Toensmeier argues that agriculture—specifically, the subset of practices known as “carbon farming”—can, and should be, a linchpin of a global climate solutions platform. Carbon farming is a suite of agricultural practices and crops that sequester carbon in the soil and in aboveground biomass. Combined with a massive reduction in fossil fuel emissions—and in concert with adaptation strategies to our changing environment— carbon farming has the potential to bring us back from the brink of disaster and return our atmosphere to the “magic number” of 350 parts per million of carbon dioxide. Toensmeier’s book is the first to bring together these powerful strategies in one place, including in-depth analysis of the available research and, where research is lacking, a discussion of what it will take to get us there. Carbon farming can take many forms. The simplest practices involve modifications to annual crop production. Although many of these modifications have relatively low sequestration potential, they are widely applicable and easily adopted, and thus have excellent potential to mitigate climate change if practiced on a global scale. Likewise, grazing systems such as silvopasture are easily replicable, don’t require significant changes to human diet, and—given the amount of agricultural land worldwide that is devoted to pasture—can be important strategies in the carbon farming arsenal. But by far, agroforestry practices and perennial crops present the best opportunities for sequestration. While many of these systems are challenging to establish and manage, and would require us to change our diets to new and largely unfamiliar perennial crops, they also offer huge potential that has been almost entirely ignored by climate crusaders. Many of these carbon farming practices are already implemented globally on a scale of millions of hectares. These are not minor or marginal efforts, but win-win solutions that provide food, fodder, and feedstocks while fostering community self-reliance, creating jobs, protecting biodiversity, and repairing degraded land—all while sequestering carbon, reducing emissions, and ultimately contributing to a climate that will remain amenable to human civilization. Just as importantly to a livable future, these crops and practices can contribute to broader social goals such as women’s empowerment, food sovereignty, and climate justice. The Carbon Farming Solution does not present a prescription for how cropland should be used and is not, first and foremost, a how-to manual, although following up on references in a given section will frequently provide such information. Instead, The Carbon Farming Solution is—at its root—a toolkit. It is the most complete collection of climate-friendly crops and practices currently available. With this toolkit, farmers, communities, and governments large and small, can successfully launch carbon farming projects with the most appropriate crops and practices to their climate, locale, and socioeconomic needs. Toensmeier’s ultimate goal is to place carbon farming firmly in the center of the climate solutions platform, alongside clean solar and wind energy. With The Carbon Farming Solution, Toensmeier wants to change the discussion, impact policy decisions, and steer mitigation funds to the research, projects, and people around the world who envision a future where agriculture becomes the protagonist in this fraught, urgent, and unprecedented drama of our time. Citizens, farmers, and funders will be inspired to use the tools presented in this important new book to transform degraded lands around the world into productive carbon-storing landscapes.

Author : Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:B2907674

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Agriculture of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture Pdf

"Containing reports of the State Board of Agriculture, the State Agricultural Society, the State Dairymen's Association, the State Fruit Growers' Association, and the State College, for ..." (varies).