Free Download The Agricultural Sky: A Concept to Revolutionize Farming
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9781003328247 | 612 pages | True PDF | 36.22 MB
"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.

Free Download Application of Machine Learning Models in Agricultural and Meteorological Sciences
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811997322 | 196 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 41 MB
This book is a comprehensive guide for agricultural and meteorological predictions. It presents advanced models for predicting target variables. The different details and conceptions in the modelling process are explained in this book. The models of the current book help better agriculture and irrigation management. The models of the current book are valuable for meteorological organizations.

Free Download Agricultural Innovation in Asia: Efficiency, Welfare, and Technology
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811990859 | 407 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 15 MB
This book covers the major findings of almost all types of innovation in agriculture that includes product and process innovation, marketing and organizational innovation, and extended to institutional changes and social welfare in agricultural innovation in Asia. Specially, this book provides the measuring of these types of agricultural innovation on production, economics, and social welfare. Furthermore, this book provides the overview of smart farming in two advanced countries in Asia in this field, which are China and Japan along with its innovation. This book also aims to give an overview on the development of agricultural innovation in the era of digital agriculture over the world.

Trukhachev V Unlocking Digital Transformation of Agricultural Enterprises 2023 | 8.44 MB
English | 297 Pages

Title: Unlocking Digital Transformation of Agricultural Enterprises: Technology Advances, Digital Ecosystems, and Innovative Firm Governance (Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management)
Author: Vladimir I. Trukhachev
Year: 2023

Agricultural Domestic Support Under the WTO: Experience and Prospects
English | 2023 | ISBN: 1316514056 | 297 Pages | PDF | 2 MB
The WTO Agreement on Agriculture subjects different groups of developed and developing countries to different limits on domestic support and allows various exemptions from these limits. Offering a comprehensive assessment of the Agreement's rules and implementation, this book develops guidance toward socially desirable support policies. Although dispute settlement has clarified interpretation of the Agriculture and SCM Agreements, gaps remain between the legal disciplines and the economic effects of support. Considering the Agriculture Agreement also in the context of today's priorities of sustainability and climate change mitigation, Lars Brink and David Orden build a strategy that aligns the rules and members' commitments with the economic impacts of agricultural support measures. While providing in-depth analysis of the existing rules, their shortcomings and the limited scope of ongoing negotiations, the authors take a long-term view, where policies directed toward evolving priorities in agriculture are compatible with strengthened rules that reduce trade and production distortions.

Joanna Bourke Martignoni, "Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food "
English | ISBN: 1032063769 | 2022 | 290 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.

Christopher Craig, "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan "
English | ISBN: 0824886259 | 2021 | 278 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Among the challenges facing Japan in its quest to match the modern states of the Western world, none was more crucial than the development of agriculture. With a state focused more on the emblematic goals of mechanization, urbanization, and a modern military, it fell upon local elites in villages across the country to bring rice production into the modern era. Middlemen of Modernity explores these elites and their actions in a region in northeastern Japan, presenting a view of the transformation of Japanese agriculture from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Meiji-era agricultural policy called for village elites to mobilize their wealth and local reputations to introduce improved farming methods, transform the physical landscape, and increase agricultural production. Farmers looked to the same figures to use their elevated status and government connections to direct public funds toward building prosperous villages. But economic shocks and social change created a new generation of elites with their own vision for agricultural improvement, leading to conditions that caused famine, economic disparity, and village unrest. The official and local responses to these discrepancies brought an end to the elite leadership of agricultural development at the beginning of the twentieth century, but its legacy set the course for farming and rural Japanese society for the next half century.

Ariel Ron, "Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic "
English | ISBN: 1421439328 | 2020 | 324 pages | PDF | 7 MB
How a massive agricultural reform movement led by northern farmers before the Civil War recast Americans' relationships to market forces and the state.

Henry Thomson, "Food and Power: Regime Type, Agricultural Policy, and Political Stability"
English | ISBN: 1108476813 | 2019 | 250 pages | PDF | 15 MB
The relationship between development and democratization remains one of the most compelling topics of research in political science, yet many aspects of authoritarian regime behavior remain unexplained. This book explores how different types of governments take action to shape the course of economic development, focusing on agriculture, a sector that is of crucial importance in the developing world. It explains variation in agricultural and food policy across regime type, who the winners and losers of these policies are, and whether they influence the stability of authoritarian governments. The book pushes us to think differently about the process linking economic development to political change, and to consider growth as an inherently politicized process rather than an exogenous driver of moves towards democracy.

The Agricultural Civilization of Ancient China
English | 2023 | ISBN: 9811984689 | 270 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 1.44 MB
This book provides a systematic account of the development of agriculture and agricultural civilization in ancient China. It mainly discusses the birth of traditional agriculture, the characteristics and advantages of traditional agricultural economy, traditional agricultural knowledge and technology system, flexible land relations and ownership structure, extensive irrigation system and water conservancy projects, complete policies and measures to emphasize agriculture, the three agricultural expansion processes, the value pursuit of revering agriculture, and the plight and decline of traditional agriculture.