Instant Insights: Irrigation Management in Horticultural Production

Instant Insights: Irrigation Management in Horticultural Production
Author: Dr Andre da Silva
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science: Instant Insights
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-09-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781801466370

This collection provides a comprehensive overview of the recent advances in irrigation management in horticultural production, focussing on more conventional growing systems, as well as emerging systems, such as soilless culture production.

Sustainable Market Farming

Sustainable Market Farming
Author: Pam Dawling
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Total Pages: 459
Release: 2013-02-01
Genre: Gardening
ISBN: 1550925121

Growing for 100 - the complete year-round guide for the small-scale market grower. Across North America, an agricultural renaissance is unfolding. A growing number of market gardeners are emerging to feed our appetite for organic, regional produce. But most of the available resources on food production are aimed at the backyard or hobby gardener who wants to supplement their family's diet with a few homegrown fruits and vegetables. Targeted at serious growers in every climate zone, Sustainable Market Farming is a comprehensive manual for small-scale farmers raising organic crops sustainably on a few acres. Informed by the author's extensive experience growing a wide variety of fresh, organic vegetables and fruit to feed the approximately one hundred members of Twin Oaks Community in central Virginia, this practical guide provides: Detailed profiles of a full range of crops, addressing sowing, cultivation, rotation, succession, common pests and diseases, and harvest and storage Information about new, efficient techniques, season extension, and disease resistant varieties Farm-specific business skills to help ensure a successful, profitable enterprise Whether you are a beginning market grower or an established enterprise seeking to improve your skills, Sustainable Market Farming is an invaluable resource and a timely book for the maturing local agriculture movement.

Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture

Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture
Author: Tomar, Pradeep
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1799817245

As technology continues to saturate modern society, agriculture has started to adopt digital computing and data-driven innovations. This emergence of “smart” farming has led to various advancements in the field, including autonomous equipment and the collection of climate, livestock, and plant data. As connectivity and data management continue to revolutionize the farming industry, empirical research is a necessity for understanding these technological developments. Artificial Intelligence and IoT-Based Technologies for Sustainable Farming and Smart Agriculture provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of critical technological solutions within the farming industry. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as crop monitoring, precision livestock farming, and agronomic data processing, this book is ideally designed for farmers, agriculturalists, product managers, farm holders, manufacturers, equipment suppliers, industrialists, governmental professionals, researchers, academicians, and students seeking current research on technological applications within agriculture and farming.

Smart Agriculture an Approach Towards Better Agriculture Management

Smart Agriculture an Approach Towards Better Agriculture Management
Author: Aqeel-ur- Rehman
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-02-12
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781632780232

This edited book, Smart Agriculture: An Approach towards Better Agriculture Management aims to present utilization of advanced technologies towards the better management of Agriculture requirements. The book is triggered by ubiquitous applications of sensors and actuators, and the real-world challenges and complexities to the Wireless Sensors and Actuator Networks¿ (WSAN) application. Agriculture is a very vast domain. This book is providing coverage of some of the aspects of the agriculture like Introduction to the concept of Smart Agriculture, Automatic Irrigation Management, Water Management, use of advanced technology like GIS towards Agriculture and Agricultural Ontologies to provide semantic understanding for computing devices.

Good Agricultural Practices for Greenhouse Vegetable Crops

Good Agricultural Practices for Greenhouse Vegetable Crops
Author:
Publisher: Food & Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Total Pages: 640
Release: 2013
Genre: Gardening
ISBN:

This publication capitalizes on the experience of scientists from the North Africa and Near East countries, in collaboration with experts from around the world, specialized in the different aspects of greenhouse crop production. It provides a comprehensive description and assessment of the greenhouse production practices in use in Mediterranean climate areas that have helped diversify vegetable production and increase productivity. The publication is also meant to be used as a reference and tool for trainers and growers as well as other actors in the greenhouse vegetables value chain in this region.

More Crop Per Drop

More Crop Per Drop
Author: Meredith Giordano
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1843391120

This volume is an analytical summary and a critical synthesis of research at the International Water Management Institute over the past decade under its evolving research paradigm known popularly as 'more crop per drop'. The research synthesized here covers the full range of issues falling in the larger canvas of water-food-health-environment interface. Besides its immediate role in sharing knowledge with the research, donor, and policy communities, this volume also has a larger purpose of promoting a new way of looking at the water issues within the broader development context of food, livelihood, health and environmental challenges. More crop per drop: Revisiting a research paradigm contrasts the acquired wisdom and fresh thinking on some of the most challenging water issues of our times. It describes new tools, approaches, and methodologies and also illustrates them with practical application both from a global perspective and within the local and regional contexts of Asia and Africa. Since this volume brings together all major research works of IWMI, including an almost exhaustive list of citations, in one single set of pages, it is very valuable not only as a reference material for researchers and students but also as a policy tool for decision-makers and development agencies.

Explainable AI (XAI) for Sustainable Development

Explainable AI (XAI) for Sustainable Development
Author: Lakshmi D
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2024-06-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1040038832

This book presents innovative research works to automate, innovate, design, and deploy AI fo real-world applications. It discusses AI applications in major cutting-edge technologies and details about deployment solutions for different applications for sustainable development. The application of Blockchain techniques illustrates the ways of optimisation algorithms in this book. The challenges associated with AI deployment are also discussed in detail, and edge computing with machine learning solutions is explained. This book provides multi-domain applications of AI to the readers to help find innovative methods towards the business, sustainability, and customer outreach paradigms in the AI domain. • Focuses on virtual machine placement and migration techniques for cloud data centres • Presents the role of machine learning and meta-heuristic approaches for optimisation in cloud computing services • Includes application of placement techniques for quality of service, performance, and reliability improvement • Explores data centre resource management, load balancing and orchestration using machine learning techniques • Analyses dynamic and scalable resource scheduling with a focus on resource management The reference work is for postgraduate students, professionals, and academic researchers in computer science and information technology.