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This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on
soil health indicators. The first chapter describes indicators and
frameworks for soil health currently in use. It evaluates the
principles underpinning current approaches to monitoring soil
quality/health and shows these principles have been applied in the
development of a practical soil health toolkit for use by UK
farmers. The second chapter reviews the range of physical, chemical
and biological indicators of soil health and how they can be used
in practice. It focusses on measuring soil health in organic
vegetable cultivation and, in particular, ways of measuring the
effects of adding organic amendments to improve soil health. The
third chapter discusses key issues in soil organic carbon (SOM)
modelling and the development of increasingly sophisticated,
dynamic SOM models. It looks at the role of SOM models in improving
soil health monitoring and developing decision support tools for
farmers The final chapter reviews current challenges in collecting
more systematic and reliable data on earthworm communities,
including issues in identifying different earthworm groups. It
includes a case study on developing a robust method for accurate
measurement of earthworm communities in soil in assessing and
improving soil health.
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Food Processing
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Romina Alina Marc, Antonio Valero Diaz, Guiomar Denisse Posada Izquierdo
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The Impact of Nanoparticles on Agriculture and Soil, part of the
Nanomaterials-Plant Interaction series, contributes the most recent
insights into understanding the cellular interactions of
nanoparticles in an agricultural setting, focusing on current
applications and means of evaluating future prospects. In order to
ensure and improve the biosafety of nanoparticles, it is a primary
concern to understand cellular bioprocess like nanomaterial's
cellular uptake and their influence on cellular structural,
functional and genetic components. This book addresses these and
other important aspects in detail along with showcasing their
applications in the area of agriculture. With an international team
of authors, and experienced editors, this book will be valuable to
those working to understand and advance nanoscience to benefit
agricultural production and human and environmental welfare.
In-depth knowledge of these bioprocess will enable researchers to
engineer nanomaterials for enhanced biosafety.
The increasing demand for food as well as changes in consumption
habits have led to the greater availability and variety of food
with a longer shelf life. However, these items, when not properly
preserved, can lead to severe food-borne illnesses that can be
fatal. Thus, countless studies are now geared towards the
processing, distributing, and safe storage of foods. Novel
Technologies and Systems for Food Preservation is an essential
reference source that discusses novel and emerging cooling and
heating technologies, processes, and systems for food preservation,
as well as improvements for control and monitoring systems that aim
to foster energy efficiency, equipment safety, and performance.
Additionally, it looks at concepts that may be useful for the
development of new policies and legislation concerning food
preservation. Featuring research on topics such as energy
efficiency, food quality, and legislation policies, this book is
ideally designed for government officials, policymakers, food and
service industry professionals, food safety inspectors,
researchers, academicians, and students.
This book comprises of six sections giving the state of the art
information in the following topics: Functional foods: Scope,
Market Opportunities and Recent trends, Functional food products:
Ingredients and Functionality, Functional food products:
Formulation and Processing Technology, Functional food products:
Packaging and Storage Stability, Functional food products:
Prevention, Disease Control and bioavailability, Future prospects
of functional food. The book is exclusively targeted for food
scientists and technologists, and scientists working in related
fields. The book also presents practical information for use in
functional food product development. It is also intended for use by
practitioners in functional food companies and food technology
centres and will also be of interest to researchers and students of
food science and technology. With recent scientific studies, this
book provides readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date
scientific knowledge about the functional food science and
technology. The book presents a most updated knowledge on the
regulatory status of functional food in different countries. This
information, which is seldom available, is essential for the
commercial aspect of functional food. Also, core discussion on the
reliable and economical scale up of laboratory-based extraction and
purification techniques for different functional ingredients is
also presented in the detailed manner in the book. A critical issue
in the development of functional foods is health aspects and its
role in disease control. In section V, Functional food products:
Prevention, Disease Control and bioavailability, a variety of
examples are discussed indicating the role and action of functional
ingredients in preventing disease. The present book also addresses
the key issue of processing and its effects on the bioavailability
of bioactives. With the advent of the latest scientific technique
in the latter half of the 20th century, area of functional food has
evolved to the current state of the art.
This book has been written for the under-graduate students of Dairy
Technology course being offered by different Dairy Science Colleges
and various Agricultural and Deemed Universities across the
country.
The book Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation is intended as a text book
of micro irrigation design and practices for the students of the
agricultural sciences and the professionals and workers in the
field of micro irrigation. The book discusses the type and
components, hydraulics and design, installation and maintenance of
micro irrigation system. It contains good number of numerical as
example and task to get the students familiar to the requirements,
complicacies, and possible remedies in actual working condition. In
addition to conventional broad and short questions in every of the
book there are multiple choice questions to assist the students in
preparing the competitive examinations.
The application of machines and better power sources to enhance
agricultural production has been one of the most significant
developments in agriculture. Mechanization of agriculture is needed
for development and optimal utilization of natural resources
leading to higher productivity and reduced cost of production for
greater profitability, economic competitiveness and sustainability.
Mechanization also imparts capacity to the farmers to carry out
farm operations with dignity, comfort and freedom from drudgery,
making the farming agreeable vocation for educated youth as well.
It helps the farmers to achieve timeliness in farm operations and
apply costly input with reduced quantity for better efficacy and
efficiency. Small and marginal farmers can now make use of high
capacity agricultural machines on custom hire basis. The results of
this development can be seen in many aspects such as increase in
productivity and production per worker, precision in application of
crop inputs, increase in cropping intensity due to timeliness of
operations, increase in the quality of produce, reduction in grain
losses and increase in farm employment. Mechanization is
particularly advantageous when it can minimize a high peak labour
demand that occurs over a relatively short period of time each
year. Mechanization also encourages better management of farm
inputs, improvement in working conditions and performance of jobs
that would otherwise be difficult by hand. It also helps in
reducing the cost of production. This book 'Mechanization of
Cultivated Crops' covers the farm tools and equipment used in
different operations such as land development, tillage,
seeding/planting, interculture, fertilizer application, plant
protection, harvesting and threshing and residue management. The
book can be referred as a textbook for the under graduate students
of agriculture and under graduate and post graduate students of
agricultural engineering.
The papers included in this book have a broad coverage of the
topics related to new technologies in functional foods and
nutraceuticals, fruits and vegetables and their by-products as
valuable ingredients for functional foods and nutraceuticals,
potential bioactive components from various food sources, trends
and development of nutraceuticals and functional foods as well as
functional food and nutraceuticals as ingredients in the value
addition for health promotion, standardization and quality control.
This compilation helps to overcome the problems faced in exploring
the potential of nutraceuticals in naturopathy and device
strategies to encounter such problems.
Dairy Technology is the industrial, non-farm phase of the
tremendously large, dynamic and complex dairy industry. This phase
represents a combination of science, engineering, business, and art
as applied to all dairy and dairy-type foods and their industries.
Dairy and dairy-type foods represent a major segment of the vast
and varied food industry. This comprehensive book has been written
encompassing entire gamuts of manufacture of dairy products,
functional foods, utilization of dairy byproducts, cleaning and
sanitization and quality assurance. The main objective of the book
is to provide the latest information in a consolidated form at one
point to meet the requirements of not only undergraduate and
postgraduates students but also teachers and dairy professionals.
This is a textbook on Dairy Plant Management and Dairy Waste
Management which is a part of the course curriculum for the
undergraduate and post graduate students of Dairy Technology.
Book of combination of basic concepts, scientific depth with
practical usefulness, the book carries information on: product and
process development, production, quality assurance and quality
control food production, processing, food chemistry, food and
industrial microbiology, food process engineering food trade and
business management, food additives, food preservation, food
spoilage food packaging, food labeling, food legislations and
regulations. It also assembles the information on food
biotechnology, functional foods and nutraceuticals and top food and
beverage companies in the world. This book is a compilation of the
wealth of knowledge which can guide the students, who are preparing
for the competitive exams, especially for GATE, P.G entrances of
CFTRI, ICAR, SLIET, IICPT, NIFETM, UICT and State Agricultural
University entrance examinations. It is also useful book for those
preparing for ICAR, SRF and NET-ARS Exams.
Halophytes for Food Security in Dry Lands addresses the concerns
surrounding global food scarcity, especially focusing on those
living in arid and dry lands The book touches on food crises in dry
regions of the world and proposes halophytes as an alternate source
of consumption for such areas. Halophytes, those plants that thrive
in saline soil and provide either food source options themselves,
or positively enhance an eco-system's ability to produce food, and
are thus an important and increasingly recognized option for
addressing the needs of the nearly 1/6 of the world's population
that lives in these arid and semi-arid climates. Including
presentations from the 2014 International Conference on Halophytes
for Food Security in Dry Lands, this book features insights from
the leading researchers in the subject. It is a valuable resource
that includes information on the nutritional value of halophytes,
their genetic basis and potential enhancement, adaption of
halophytes, and lessons learned thus far.
Dielectric Properties of Agricultural Materials and Their
Applications provides an understanding of the fundamental
principles governing dielectric properties of materials, describes
methods for measuring such properties, and discusses many
applications explored for solving industry problems. The
information in this reference stimulates new research for solving
problems associated with production, handling, and processing of
agricultural and food products. Anyone seeking a better
understanding of dielectric properties of materials and application
of radio-frequency and microwave electromagnetic energy for
solution of problems in agriculture and related fields will find
this an essential resource.
This book incorporates the extensive and updated basic information
on the subject authored by the scientists of international repute
to understand the various concepts. This book presents latest
comprehensive and authoritative explanation through different
angles of basic technologies in Farm Machinery, Farm Power and
Thermodynamics.
This book shares the latest findings on this topic, systematically
introduces readers to advances made in robotic harvesting around
the globe, and explores the relations between the development of
robotic harvesting and the respective social/economic conditions
and agricultural business patterns in various countries/regions.
Due to the unstructured setting it is used in, and to the
significant differences between individual fruit and vegetable
targets, robotic harvesting is currently considered to be one of
the most challenging robotics technologies. Accordingly, research
into this area involves the integration of various aspects,
including biomechanics, optimization design, advanced perception
and intelligent control. In addition to rapid and damage-free
robotic harvesting, which reflects the multidisciplinary nature of
the topic, further aspects addressed include gripping collisions
with viscoelastic objects, using lasers to cut plant material,
plant-fruit response to vacuum sucking and pulling, and performance
probability distribution. Highlighting outstanding innovations and
reflecting the latest advances in intelligent agricultural
equipment in China, the book offers a unique and valuable resource.
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