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Crop and Pasture Science is an international peer-reviewed scientific journal published by CSIRO Publishing. It publishes outcomes of strategic research in crop and pasture sciences and the sustainability of farming systems. The primary focus is broad-scale cereals, grain legumes, oilseeds and pastures as well as on experimental approaches from ...
Crop Science is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering agronomy. It was established in 1961 by founding editor-in-chief H.L. Hamilton and is published by ACSESS (Alliance of Crop, Soil, and Environmental Science Societies) in partnership with Wiley. It is the official journal of the Crop Science Society of America.
Agroforestry. Alley cropping of maize and sweet chestnut, Dordogne, France. Maize grown under Faidherbia albida and Borassus akeassii near Banfora, Burkina Faso. Agroforestry (also known as agro-sylviculture or forest farming) is a land use management system that integrates trees with crops or pasture.
Agronomy is the science and technology of producing and using plants by agriculture for food, fuel, fiber, chemicals, recreation, or land conservation. Agronomy has come to include research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. It is the application of a combination of sciences such as biology, chemistry, economics ...
The UK Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation program requires the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA) to report potential indirect impacts of biofuel production, including indirect land use change or changes to food and other commodity prices. [ 14] A July 2008 RFA study, known as the Gallager Review, found several risks and uncertainties, and that the ...
agricultural science. agriculture. The science and art of cultivating plants, animals, or other organisms to produce any of a variety of products that can be used by humans, most commonly food, fibers, fuels, and raw materials. agriculturist. Also agriculturalist, agricultural scientist, agrologist, or agronomist.
The normalized difference vegetation index ( NDVI) is a widely-used metric for quantifying the health and density of vegetation using sensor data. It is calculated from spectrometric data at two specific bands: red and near-infrared. The spectrometric data is usually sourced from remote sensors, such as satellites.
Plants are classified according to commercial purposes as food crops, industrial crops, and food adjuncts. Food crops: cereals, rice, wheat, maize, sorghum, ragi ...