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Considerably, a new subject, fertigation is the application of fertilizers, soil amendments or other water soluble products, through an irrigation system. Fertigation is used extensively in commercial agriculture and horticulture and is also now being used in general landscape applications, as dispenser units become more reliable and easy to use. Because of the potential risk in contaminating the potable (drinking) water supply, a backflow prevention device is ...
Domestication of plants is done in order to increase yield, improve diseases resistance and drought tolerance, ease harvest and to improve the taste and nutritional value and many other characteristics. Centuries of careful selection and breeding have had enormous effects on the characteristics of crop plants. Plant breeders use greenhouses and other techniques to get as many as three generations of plants per year so that they can make improvements all the more ...
Terrestrial ecosystems support the majority of all biotic products in the empowerment, and the yields of all biotic products in this ecosystem depends upon soil fertility. With the increasing awareness of soil as a prominent natural resource, there is an increasing credence of soil and soil fertility management product. This book not only takes an indepth look into soil fertility management practices, it also examines the relationship between soil and sustainable ...
Soil, one of the most essential components crucial to life on earth, is one the most complicated material. Being a complex mixture of inorganic and organic solids, liquids and gases, it present numerous challenges to scientists as a material for analysis. In an age where awareness has elevated soil to the status of one of the most conserved resources, soil analysis has become a prerequisite for soil bioremediation projects. The book not only investigates the most ...