A Textbook of Agronomy

A Textbook of Agronomy
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Publisher : New Age International
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 812242743X
ISBN-13 : 9788122427431
Rating : 4/5 (3X Downloads)

Synopsis A Textbook of Agronomy by : B. Chandrasekaran

Foreign Crops and Markets

Foreign Crops and Markets
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1000
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000098735529
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Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

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Turning Victory Into Success

Turning Victory Into Success
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Total Pages : 339
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ISBN-10 : 9781428916494
ISBN-13 : 1428916490
Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

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Introduction To Agriculture

Introduction To Agriculture
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 496
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ISBN-10 : 8183600344
ISBN-13 : 9788183600347
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Introduction To Agriculture by : A. K. Vyas

Becoming Organic

Becoming Organic
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 9780300215014
ISBN-13 : 0300215010
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Becoming Organic by : Shaila Seshia Galvin

A rich, original study of the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality that challenges assumptions of what organic means Tracing the social and bureaucratic life of organic quality, this book yields new understandings of this fraught concept. Shaila Seshia Galvin examines certified organic agriculture in India's central Himalayas, revealing how organic is less a material property of land or its produce than a quality produced in discursive, regulatory, and affective registers. Becoming Organic is a nuanced account of development practice in rural India, as it has unfolded through complex relationships forged among state authorities, private corporations, and new agrarian intermediaries.

Making Online News

Making Online News
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Publisher : Peter Lang
Total Pages : 252
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ISBN-10 : 1433102137
ISBN-13 : 9781433102134
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Making Online News by : Chris Paterson

Volume 2 summary: Online journalism has taken center stage in debates about the future of news. Instead of speculating, this volume offers rich empirical evidence about actual developments in online newsrooms. The authors use ethnographic methodologies to provide a vivid, close analysis of processes like newsroom integration, the transition of newspaper and radio journalists to digital multimedia production, the management of user-generated content, the coverage of electoral campaigns, the pressure of marketing logics, the relationship with bloggers or the redefinition of news genres. -- Publisher description.

The End of Development

The End of Development
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Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Total Pages : 129
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ISBN-10 : 9781786990228
ISBN-13 : 1786990229
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The End of Development by : Andrew Brooks

Why did some countries grow rich while others remained poor? Human history unfolded differently across the globe. The world is separated in to places of poverty and prosperity. Tracing the long arc of human history from hunter gatherer societies to the early twenty first century in an argument grounded in a deep understanding of geography, Andrew Brooks rejects popular explanations for the divergence of nations. This accessible and illuminating volume shows how the wealth of ‘the West’ and poverty of ‘the rest’ stem not from environmental factors or some unique European cultural, social or technological qualities, but from the expansion of colonialism and the rise of America. Brooks puts the case that international inequality was moulded by capitalist development over the last 500 years. After the Second World War, international aid projects failed to close the gap between ‘developed’ and ‘developing’ nations and millions remain impoverished. Rather than address the root causes of inequality, overseas development assistance exacerbate the problems of an uneven world by imposing crippling debts and destructive neoliberal policies on poor countries. But this flawed form of development is now coming to an end, as the emerging economies of Asia and Africa begin to assert themselves on the world stage. The End of Development provides a compelling account of how human history unfolded differently in varied regions of the world. Brooks argues that we must now seize the opportunity afforded by today’s changing economic geography to transform attitudes towards inequality and to develop radical new approaches to addressing global poverty, as the alternative is to accept that impoverishment is somehow part of the natural order of things.

The Himalayan Dilemma

The Himalayan Dilemma
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 326
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ISBN-10 : 9781134982417
ISBN-13 : 1134982410
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis The Himalayan Dilemma by : Jack D. Ives

`This is an important book that deserves to be read by everyone concerned with presenting major environmental issues.' Geography ` ... an essential text for policy makers and aid professionals, as well as for students of environmental studies and international development ... It is indeed, a book appropriate to the urgent and critical issues which it addresses.' - Journal of Environmental Management

Silicon in Agriculture

Silicon in Agriculture
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Publisher : Elsevier
Total Pages : 425
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ISBN-10 : 9780080541228
ISBN-13 : 0080541224
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Silicon in Agriculture by : L.E. Datnoff

Presenting the first book to focus on the importance of silicon for plant health and soil productivity and on our current understanding of this element as it relates to agriculture.Long considered by plant physiologists as a non-essential element, or plant nutrient, silicon was the center of attention at the first international conference on Silicon in Agriculture, held in Florida in 1999.Ninety scientists, growers, and producers of silicon fertilizer from 19 countries pondered a paradox in plant biology and crop science. They considered the element Si, second only to oxygen in quantity in soils, and absorbed by many plants in amounts roughly equivalent to those of such nutrients as sulfur or magnesium. Some species, including such staples as rice, may contain this element in amounts as great as or even greater than any other inorganic constituent. Compilations of the mineral composition of plants, however, and much of the plant physiological literature largely ignore this element. The participants in Silicon in Agriculture explored that extraordinary discrepancy between the silicon content of plants and that of the plant research enterprise.The participants, all of whom are active in agricultural science, with an emphasis on crop production, presented, and were presented with, a wealth of evidence that silicon plays a multitude of functions in the real world of plant life. Many soils in the humid tropics are low in plant available silicon, and the same condition holds in warm to hot humid areas elsewhere. Field experience, and experimentation even with nutrient solutions, reveals a multitude of functions of silicon in plant life. Resistance to disease is one, toleration of toxic metals such as aluminum, another. Silicon applications often minimize lodging of cereals (leaning over or even becoming prostrate), and often cause leaves to assume orientations more favorable for light interception. For some crops, rice and sugarcane in particular, spectacular yield responses to silicon application have been obtained. More recently, other crop species including orchids, daisies and yucca were reported to respond to silicon accumulation and plant growth/disease control. The culture solutions used for the hydroponic production of high-priced crops such as cucumbers and roses in many areas (The Netherlands for example) routinely included silicon, mainly for disease control. The biochemistry of silicon in plant cell walls, where most of it is located, is coming increasingly under scrutiny; the element may act as a crosslinking element between carbohydrate polymers.There is an increased conviction among scientists that the time is at hand to stop treating silicon as a plant biological nonentity. The element exists, and it matters.

The Art of Not Being Governed

The Art of Not Being Governed
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 465
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ISBN-10 : 9780300156522
ISBN-13 : 0300156529
Rating : 4/5 (22 Downloads)

Synopsis The Art of Not Being Governed by : James C. Scott

From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.