ISBN: 9789390749430 - irrigation and weed management learning for beginners (5 résultats)

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Etat : New.

Hardcover. Etat : New. ISBN:9789390749430.

Hardcover. Etat : New. Contents: 1. Role of water in plants - Importance of irrigation - Water resources of Tamil Nadu. 2. Soil moisture constants - Plant water stress - Plant response and adaptations - Methods to overcome plant water stress. 3. Crop water requirement - Critical stages for irrigation - Water requirement for different field crops - Water use efficiency. 4. Methods of irrigation - merits, demerits, suitability of surface and subsurface irrigation methods. 5. Micro irrigation system (drip and sprinkler irrigation) Government support to popularize micro irrigation systems. 6. Water management for cereals and pulses. 7. Water management for oilseed crops and commercial crops. 8. Quality of irrigation water - classification of quality of irrigation water based on different salts - Agronomic practices for use of poor quality water. 9. Measurement of irrigation water. 10. Scheduling of irrigation. 11. Irrigation structures in wetlands and Irrigated drylands. 12. TMC, CUSEC, CUMEC, Irrigation efficiencies and calculation. 13. Weeds - definition, classification and characteristics, harmful and beneficial effects of weeds. 14 . Classification and characteristics of weeds of different agro ecosystems : lowland, irrigated upland, rainfed land and waste land. 15. Classification and characteristics of weeds aquatic, parasitic and obnoxious Weeds. 16. Crop weed interactions critical crop weed competition, competitive and allelopathic effects of weeds and crops. 17. Principles and methods of weed management: preventive, cultural, mechanical, chemical, biological and alternate methods. 18. Herbicides - merits and demerits of using herbicides - classification based on mode of action and method of application - herbicide formulations. 19. Weed Management practices for major field crops. 20. Weed management practices for parasitic, problematic weeds and aquatic weeds. The book on Irrigation and Weed Management Learning for Beginners is very simple to understand all the aspects of irrigation water and weed management and dealing all areas of irrigation and weed science such as soil - plant - water relationship, soil moisture constant, soil moisture measurement, irrigation scheduling, different irrigation practices, micro irrigation technologies, irrigation management practices for different field crops, irrigation water quality, irrigation structures, classification of weeds and herbicides, crop weed interactions, principles and methods of weed management and weed management practices for major field crops to meet out the growing interest in successful crop production. This book will makes the students to manipulate the water and weed management in changing agricultural environment and equip them to transfer required technologies towards farming community. We are sure that the contents of this book will be referred by students and researchers and will be useful especially for the budding scientists of agricultural sciences and plant sciences group.…