Tell your friends about this item:
Soil-Specific Farming: Precision Agriculture - Advances in Soil Science 1st edition
Ordered from remote warehouse
Our customers say:
Also available as:
Soil-Specific Farming: Precision Agriculture - Advances in Soil Science
Faced with challenges of resource scarcity and environmental degradation, it is important to adopt innovative farming systems that maximize resource efficiency while protecting the environment. Soil-Specific Farming: Precision Agriculture focuses on principles and applications of soil-specific farming, providing information on rapidly evolving agricultural technologies. It addresses assessments of soil variability and application of modern innovations to enhance use efficiency of fertilizers, irrigation, tillage, and pesticides through targeted management of soils and crops.
This book provides the technological basis of adopting and promoting precision agriculture (PA) for addressing the issues of resource scarcity, environmental pollution, and climate change. It focuses specifically on PA technologies and discusses historical evolution, soil variability at different scales, soil fertility and nutrient management, water quality, land leveling techniques, and special ecosystems involving small landholders and coastal regions.
Highlighting the scale-related issues and concerns of small landholders, the text details the efficient use of resources on the basis of soil/field variability and site-specific conditions. It examines how PA technology can increase productivity, enhance profitability, and minimize environmental degradation. Woven throughout is the theme of sustainable use of resources.
431 pages, 119 black & white illustrations, 50 black & white tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 20, 2015 |
| ISBN13 | 9781482245332 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Pages | 432 |
| Dimensions | 262 × 187 × 29 mm · 966 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Lal, Rattan (Ohio State University) |
| Editor | Stewart, B.A. (West Texas A&M University, Canyon, USA) |
