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Purpose of study was to quantify canal water distribution and its
impact on income of the farmers in selected watercourse of 3-R
distributary before and after the remodeling of outlets. The study
was conducted on 3-R distributary of subsystem 6 in district
Bahwalnagar of Punjab, Pakistan. Total 9 watercourses were selected
of subsystem 6 of 3-R distributary. The subsystem 6 was divided
into 3 reaches i.e. the Head, Middle and Tail reaches, and three
watercourses were selected in every reach of field study. For every
watercourse, Farmers interview at head, middle and tail ends was
conducted and results are presented in this technical book. This
book certainly enhance learning among researcher, scientists,
students and farm mangers on the impact of remodeling of outlets on
local community and helps planning research studies for the
survival of humanity. The author appreciate the efforts of
Barthlemy Chaton and his team in facilitating during book
finalization and highly acknowledge publishing of this book by VDM
Publishing House Ltd., for technical knowledge sharing
internationally.
2009 reprint of the 1956 second edition. This title made available
for the first time an adequately organized, comprehensive
analytical method for evaluating the stresses, reactions and
deflections in an irregular piping system in space, unlimited as to
the character, location or number of concentrated loadings or
restraints. Profusely illustrated and meticulously detailed.
A wider understanding of potato postharvest practices is needed to
improve working relations between growers, agronomists,
pathologists and crop store managers. Providing a comprehensive
examination of international potato production, this book
identifies which storage systems suit particular climatic zones, as
well as considering interactions between crop microclimate,
dehydration, crop cooling, condensation and disease development.
"Potatoes Postharvest" will guide the reader through the activities
following harvest from store loading, store management, and grading
to packaging and dispatch.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such
as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
"Quality Control for Foods and Agricultural Products" is a single, complete, and practical reference to the wide variety of techniques for quality control in the production of food products. The book may also serve as a guidebook to other industries that are initiating or reviewing their quality control procedures. This title provides an overview of the tools available for quality control in the food industry. Among the quality control measures discused are practical methodology, sampling methods, measurement devices, sensors, computer analysis, data interpretation, reference materials, and standardization. "Quality Control for Foods and Agricultural Products" allows the reader to compare and contrast the advantages and disadvantages associated with a particular quality control method. Armed with this knowledge, the best possible quality control method may be chosen for a given product.
This handbook is a comprehensive reference for engineers who
design and build farm machinery, processing equipment, shipping
containers and packaging, as well as storage equipment. The book is
written by the world s leading engineers and gives both a broad and
technically detailed look at these critical aspects of any
farm-to-fork operation. It addresses food, chemical, mechanical,
and packaging engineers directly or indirectly involved with the
food industry.
One teacher's long journey to a kind of enlightenment.
"This is the best piece I've read on teaching in years. Not only
does Guy nail issue after issue with laser-like precision, but he
manages to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted with
humor and brief anecdotes, avoiding both the puffed-up academic
pose and the grim earnestness of the wounded and the
self-righteous. I really love it." Bill Ayers, Distinguished
Professor of Education and author of "To Teach, The Journey of a
Teacher," "Teaching Toward Freedom," and "Fugitive Days."
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
As human populations expand and demands upon natural resources
increase, the need to manage the environments in which people live
becomes more important but also more difficult. Land and water
management is especially critical as the use of upstream watersheds
can drastically affect large numbers of people living in downstream
watersheds. An integrated approach that stresses both the
importance of participatory planning and the institutional and
technical constraints and opportunities is therefore necessary. The
institutional and technical context for managing watersheds and
river basins, including the involvement of both the public and
private sectors, is also examined.
Principles of Soil and Plant Water Relations combines biology and
physics to show how water moves through the soil-plant-atmosphere
continuum. This text explores the instrumentation and the methods
used to measure the status of water in soil and plants. The basic
methods of tensiometry, pyschrometry, stomatal porometry, as well
as newer methods of tension infiltrometry; time domain
reflectometry are examined. Principles are clearly presented with
the aid of diagrams, anatomical figures, and images of
instrumentation. An added feature includes short biographies of
important scientists at the end of each chapter.
Intended for graduate students in plant and soil science programs,
this book also serves as a useful reference for agronomists, plant
ecologists, and agricultural engineers
* Principles are presented in an easy-to-understand style
* Heavily illustrated with more than 200 figures; diagrams are
professionally drawn
* Anatomical figures show root, stem, leaf, and stomata
* Figures of instruments show how they work
* Book is carefully referenced, giving sources for all
information
* Struggles and accomplishments of scientists who developed the
theories are given in short biographies.
The author of this book has traveled extensively in many desert and
semi-desert territories of the U.S.S.R., Morocco, Tunisia, the
Egyptian region of the U.A.R., Pakistan and India where he realized
the importance of water for the reclamation of vast areas of arid
and semi-arid lands. During his visits the author became acquainted
with the theory and practice of land irrigation in many countries
of North Africa and Asia. The present book is the first attempt at
generalizing the vast amount of material dealing with the
hydrogeology of the irrigated lands of the arid zone of North
Africa and Asia, stretching from the African coastline of the
Atlantic Ocean to the central parts of Asia. Outlined in this book
are the origin and distribution of saline lands in the deserts of
North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, the Iran Highlands, Middle
Asia, China and Mongolia. A description is given of the surface
waters in irrigated areas of the arid zone together with the
sources, movement and draining, infiltration, condensation and
evaporation of water in the desert and semi-desert territories. The
book gives a sketch of the regime of free ground waters in
irrigated areas and methods of studying it, problems of water
balance and its forecasting, based on experimental research and
simple theoretical calculations. Principles of the hydrogeological
division of irrigated lands into districts and basic measures to
prevent their salinization are also given. The book can serve as a
textbook for engineer-hydrogeologists, melioration specialists and
students at specialized hydrogeological and agricultural institutes
and schools.
The frrst attempts to use physical methods in agriculture can be
found in nineteenth century as a necessary component of farm and
food machinery. There were mechanics, electricity and physical
chemistry that were the first physical disciplines used in
agriculture and food industry. In the same time period the studies
on physical properties of soils started to be one of main topics of
soil science. The twentieth century was a century of research on
physical properties of agromaterials. The physical properties of
agromaterials have been studied e. g. in the USA, where a big role
has been played by ASAE (1907), and in the Soviet Union where the
special Institute of Agrophysics was founded (1932) by Academician
Ioffe. The ASAE's activity was enlarged in 1960s and 1970s,
especially with the role playing by the Mohsenin's group and its
followers. At that time the Institute of Agrophysics of Polish
Academy of Sciences was founded in Lublin and conferences on
physical methods in agriculture began to be organised. The
participants of the last conference - "Physical Methods in
Agriculture - Approach to Precision and Quality," held on August
27-30, 2001, have prepared the basis for this book. Part of the
conference participants decided to enlarge their conference papers
to be more general and more instructive in relation to further
development of the science. New papers prepared under this deciSion
were reviewed, discussed and revised, repeatedly, to be presented
in this book.
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