Newly updated in 2015, you will learn how to create homes from scratch for many different animals. You will learn how to assess the needs of your a...

Animals need their own space, and nowhere is this more apparent that for those who own multiple animals. When not given their own private space to ...

The Young Farmer of the Year has tested the knowledge and skills of rural men and women for 50 years. Join our winners, finalists and organisers as...

Today, in a world of 7 billion people, agriculture is facing great challenges to ensure a sufficient food supply while maintaining high productivit...

Plant development and productivity are negatively regulated by various environmental stresses. Abiotic stress factors such as heat, cold, drought, ...

Whether you are new to the world of herbs and essential oils, or well seasoned in them, this is the book for you! Covering farm animals, exotics, r...

The Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Reauthorization Act (MSRA) was adopted by the U.S. Congress and signed into law by the U.S...

Rice is a staple food in numerous countries around the world. Rice consumption provides more calories than any other single food, serving daily as ...

In Chapter One, Alexander M. Liudchik and Siarhey D. Umreika begin by deliberating on the problem of spectrophotometric determination of gas medium...

The genus Agave has about 200 species naturally distributed in the Neotropics. Agave is a genus with a long tradition of uses, mainly alimentary, m...

The issue of how to assess the sustainability of governance structures is one of the most topical for researchers, farmers, investors, administrato...

This book examines global climate models that predict increases over time in average temperature worldwide, with significant impacts on local patte...

The development of agricultural biotechnology offers the opportunity to increase crop production, lower farming costs, improve food quality and saf...

The nation's remaining grassland has several important benefits, such as providing land for grazing and wildlife habitat for many at-risk species. ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture provides technical and financial assistance to attract interest and encourage participation in conservation prog...

Because farmers and ranchers own and manage about 940 million acres, or about half of the continental United States' land area, they are among the ...

According to the Fifth Annual Employment-Unemployment Survey of the Ministry of Labour and Employment, 45.7 percent of India’s workforce in 2014-15...

This book is a compilation of CRS reports on agricultural developments and policies. Some topics discussed herein include industrial hemp, the US D...

Agricultural economics originally applied the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock -- a discipline known as agronomics....

Agriculture occupies a key position in the Indian economy. Though agriculture has now shrunk as a proportion of gross domestic product (GDP) to aro...

Agricultural biodiversity is essential for global food production, livelihood security and sustainable agricultural development. Agricultural ecosy...

The historical development of agriculture is the history of mankind since it is closely related with the ever improving and increasing development ...

Because of the nature of front-end funding of growing crops, cyclical weather patterns and the national security aspects of agriculture, finance an...

Even though traditional microfinance has successfully paved the way for offering financial services to low-income populations without traditional c...