If you?re an agronomist, horticulturalist, plant and soil scientist, breeder, or soil microbiologist, you?ll want to read Nutrient Use in Crop Production to find everything you need to know about judicious nutrient management and maximizing nutrient utilization in the agricultural landscape. In this book, you?ll discover ways to minimize undesirable nutrient losses and techniques for preserving the environment while meeting the challenges of providing the earth?s increasing population with sufficient food, feed, and fiber to sustain life. Your existing knowledge base concerning this vital area of science will expand and grow as you become more open to the new ideas and applications contained in Nutrient Use in Crop Production. Most importantly, you?ll avoid the narrow scope found in most crop nutrition books and take a broader, more globally minded view of how to maximize nutrient use and minimize nutrient losses in the soil of agricultural systems. Specifically, you?ll find these and other areas covered:population growth, food production, and nutrient requirementsmanaging soil fertility declinethe role of nitrogen fixation in crop productiondelivering fertilizers through seed coatingsmicronutrient fertilizersthe role of nutrient-efficient crops in modern agriculture Feeding the world without depleting the world? s viable soil nutrients is a monumental task--but one that can be achieved, as evidenced in the pages of Nutrient Use in Crop Production. You and your circle of students, professionals, and administrators will benefit greatly from this in-depth view of nutrient use in both developed and non-industrialized counties to give you a better sense of how to allow both the world and the world?s crops to grow.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN-13
9781560220763
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95206288
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Natural Science
Author
Zdenko Rengel
Publication Name
Nutrient Use in Crop Production
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
268 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
431g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Zdenko Rengel
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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