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The book contains detailed information about the infectious
diseases of animals with their identification and treatments
finding adequate space in the book. The book covers the following:
Viral diseases: o Foot and mouth disease o Classical swine fever o
Rabies o Peste des Petits Ruminants (PPR) o Goat pox o Sheep pox o
Blue Tongue o Infectious bovine rhinotracheitis o Bovine ephemeral
fever o Canine Parvovirus Infections. Bacterial diseases: o Black
Quarter o Tuberculosis o Brucellosis o Glanders o Haemorrhagic
Depticaemia o Leptospirosis o Strangles o Anthrax o
Paratuberculosis
Food is a necessary aspect of human life, and agriculture is
crucial to any country's global economy. Because the food business
is essential to both a country's economy and global economy,
artificial intelligence (AI)-based smart solutions are needed to
assure product quality and food safety. The agricultural sector is
constantly under pressure to boost crop output as a result of
population growth. This necessitates the use of AI applications.
Artificial Intelligence Applications in Agriculture and Food
Quality Improvement discusses the application of AI, machine
learning, and data analytics for the acceleration of the
agricultural and food sectors. It presents a comprehensive view of
how these technologies and tools are used for agricultural process
improvement, food safety, and food quality improvement. Covering
topics such as diet assessment research, crop yield prediction, and
precision farming, this premier reference source is an essential
resource for food safety professionals, quality assurance
professionals, agriculture specialists, crop managers, agricultural
engineers, food scientists, computer scientists, AI specialists,
students, libraries, government officials, researchers, and
academicians.
To understand the catastrophic processes of forest fire danger,
different deterministic, probabilistic, and empiric models must be
used. Simulating various surface and crown forest fires using
predictive information technology could lead to the improvement of
existing systems and the examination of the ecological and economic
effects of forest fires in other countries. Predicting, Monitoring,
and Assessing Forest Fire Dangers and Risks provides innovative
insights into forestry management and fire statistics. The content
within this publication examines climate change, thermal radiation,
and remote sensing. It is designed for fire investigators, forestry
technicians, emergency managers, fire and rescue specialists,
professionals, researchers, meteorologists, computer engineers,
academicians, and students invested in topics centered around
providing conjugate information on forest fire danger and risk.
A heartwarming snapshot of the horse-and-buggy era? On the contrary
-- Jeff Mcpherson reports that honor systems are making a comeback
in the 21st century. Drawing on years of personal experience and
interviews with dozens of fellow farmers, business owners and
customers, he shows how you can make the honor system work to your
advantage. Honor System Marketing tells how to adapt honor
marketing to fit your own needs and capacities. Mcpherson details
how to avoid common pitfalls, manage finances, and maintain a sense
of optimism. This book shows how honor system marketing can become
an essential tool for doing business and reviving our spirit of
trust in humanity.
Agricultural Law in Sub-Saharan Africa: Cases and Comments
introduces the subject of agricultural law and economics to
researchers, practitioners, and students in common law countries in
Sub-Saharan Africa, and presents information from the legal system
in Botswana, Gambia, Ghana, Lesotho, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,
South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The law
and economics approach entails the use of quantitative methods in
research. This is consistent with the expectations in an applied
economics field such as agricultural economics. Covering the
general traditional law topics in contracts, torts, and property,
the book goes further to introduce cutting-edge and region-relevant
topics, including contracts with illiterate parties, contract
farming, climate change, and transboundary water issues. The book
is supported by an extensive list of reference materials, as well
as study and enrichment exercises, to deepen readers' understanding
of the principles discussed in the book. It is a learning tool,
first and foremost, and can be used as a stand-alone resource to
teach the subject matter of agricultural law and economics to
professionals new to the subject area as well as to students in law
school, agricultural economics, economics, and inter-disciplinary
classes.
The literature on entrepreneurship research has generally ignored
the agricultural sector. Few entrepreneurship scholars who are
mostly agricultural economists and rural sociologists have
contributed in parallel with an isolated body of work without much
integration and a larger research agenda. Most of the work in
agriculture entrepreneurship focuses on the traditional operations
of the sector but lacks the theoretical framework required for a
broader conceptual understanding of entrepreneurship in the
agriculture sector. There is not much alliance between these two
parallel research streams. Theoretical and methodological
differences have constrained the interdisciplinary collaboration.
Driving Factors for Venture Creation and Success in Agricultural
Entrepreneurship assesses the main themes of agripreneurship,
discusses important contextual aspects of the agriculture sector to
enhance the understanding of entrepreneurship, and highlights how
the key contextual dimensions of the agricultural sector can
elucidate some of the less understood aspects of entrepreneurship
theory and practice. Covering topics such as agribusiness and farm
entrepreneurship, it is ideal for entrepreneurs, agriculturalists,
professionals, researchers, students, academicians, and
policymakers working in the field of entrepreneurship in various
disciplines: management, education, agriculture education,
sociology, economics, psychology, and technology.
Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is a commercially attractive phase of
the commodity that facilitates the efficient handling and
transportation of natural gas around the world. The LNG industry,
using technologies proven over decades of development, continues to
expand its markets, diversify its supply chains and increase its
share of the global natural gas trade. The Handbook of Liquefied
Natural Gas is a timely book as the industry is currently
developing new large sources of supply and the technologies have
evolved in recent years to enable offshore infrastructure to
develop and handle resources in more remote and harsher
environments. It is the only book of its kind, covering the many
aspects of the LNG supply chain from liquefaction to regasification
by addressing the LNG industries' fundamentals and markets, as well
as detailed engineering and design principles. A unique,
well-documented, and forward-thinking work, this reference book
provides an ideal platform for scientists, engineers, and other
professionals involved in the LNG industry to gain a better
understanding of the key basic and advanced topics relevant to LNG
projects in operation and/or in planning and development.
The book entitled 'Evaluation and Impact Assessment of Technologies
and Developmental Activities in Agriculture, Fisheries and Allied
Fields' is aimed to cater to the growing demand of Impact
Evaluation IE studies as the primary purpose of Impact Assessment
IA is to estimate the magnitude and distribution of changes in
outcome and impact indicators among the target population and to
assess the extent to which these changes can be attributed to the
interventions being evaluated. The book, probably first of its kind
in the country spreads over twenty s contributed by the subject
matter specialist and practitioners working in various fields
contain both methodology and analytical issues of IA. s on basis
impact assessment methodologies like PRA techniques, logical
framework approach for project monitoring, evaluation and impact
analysis with latest available economic, financial, social,
environmental, and MDG indicators are also highlighted. Case
studies on technological impact on agro-ecosystem, pulse
production, crop diversification on agricultural output and
integrated rehabilitation of Tsunami affected people in Andaman and
Nicobar Islands are also available. Most importantly socio-economic
impact of cashew production, shrimp farming, aquaculture
production, conservation of ecology of coastal zone vegetation with
reference to Mangroves and water hyacinth are contributed by
renewed experts. Case studies on assessment of ICT, remote sensing
fluxomics and agricultural insurance on future crop production in
India are of significance. Programme evaluation of Swarnjayanti
Gram Swarozgar Yogana SGSY is of important for those involved in
such projects. The book contains complete list glossary on IA, list
of IA studies conducted in India by Programme Evaluation
Organization of Planning Commission, sector wide priority
indicators for agriculture and rural development which will serve
as a ready references."
The book analyses agricultural economics and food policy in New
Zealand, where farming produce has been by far the main export
commodity. Farming exports' importance, together with the need to
diversify exports away from a former colonial relationship with the
UK, makes liberalising agricultural trade a major concern for New
Zealand. Farmers, themselves, have influenced, significantly,
policy development and implementation through their organisation,
Federated Farmers. After World War II farmers at first encouraged
Government financial support for farming and by the 1980s farming
was highly subsidised. Farmers recognised in the 1980s that New
Zealand's economic problems demanded reduced Government
intervention and accepted ending farming subsidies. New Zealand
then encouraged, globally, 'farming without subsidies'. New Zealand
projected an image of environmental cleanliness and greenness in
support of its exporting but into the 21st century wrestled to
maintain that image because farming impacted on water quality and
climate change emissions.
Knowledge Driven Development: Private Extension and Global Lessons
uses actual cases written specifically to study the role and
capacity of private companies in knowledge sharing and
intensification through agricultural extension. Descriptions of
specific models and approaches are teased out of complex situations
exhibiting a range of agricultural, regulatory, socio-economic
variables. Illustrative cases focus on a particular agricultural
value chain and elaborate the special feature of the associated
private extension system. Chapters presenting individual cases of
private extension also highlight specific areas of variations and
significant deviance. Each chapter begins with a section describing
the background and agricultural context of the case, followed by a
description of the specific crop value chain. Based on
understanding of this context, extension models and methods by
private companies receive deeper analysis and definition in the
next section. This leads to a discussion of the private extension
with respect to its relevance, efficiency, effectiveness, equity,
sustainability and impact. Following that, comparison with public
extension, the uniqueness of the knowledge intensification model,
and lessons for its replication and scaling up are elaborated. The
final chapter summarizes the major results from the ten cases
presented, looking at the trends, commonalities and differences of
various extension approaches and the general lessons for success or
failure. It concludes with a set of messages around value creation,
integrated services, market links, inclusive innovation, and
capacity development.
The oil and gas engineer on the job requires knowing all the
available oil field chemicals and fluid applications that are
applicable to the operation. Updated with the newest technology and
available products, Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field
Chemicals and Fluids, Second Edition, delivers all the necessary
lists of chemicals by use, their basic components, benefits, and
environmental implications. In order to maintain reservoir
protection and peak well production performance, operators demand
to know all the options that are available. Instead of searching
through various sources, Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field
Chemicals and Fluids, Second Edition, presents a one-stop
non-commercialized approach by organizing the products by function,
matching the chemical to the process for practical problem-solving
and extending the coverage with additional resources and supportive
materials. Covering the full spectrum, including fluid loss
additives, drilling muds, cement additives, and oil spill treating
agents, this must-have reference answers to every oil and gas
operation with more options for lower costs, safer use, and
enhanced production.
Economists have described the upcountry Georgia poultry industry as
the quintessential agribusiness. Following a trajectory from
Reconstruction through the Great Depression to the present day,
Monica R. Gisolfi shows how the poultry farming model of
semivertical integration perfected a number of practices that had
first underpinned the cotton-growing crop-lien system, ultimately
transforming the poultry industry in ways that drove tens of
thousands of farmers off the land and rendered those who remained
dependent on large agribusiness firms. Gisolfi argues that the
inequalities inherent in the structure of modern poultry farming
have led to steep human and environmental costs. Agribusiness
firms-many of them descended from the cotton-era South's furnishing
merchants-brought farmers into a system of feed-conversion
contracts that placed all production decisions in the hands of the
poultry corporations but at least half of the capital risks on the
farmers. Along the way, the federal government aided and
abetted-sometimes unwittingly-the consolidation of power by poultry
firms through direct and indirect subsidies and favorable policies.
Drawing on USDA files, oral history, congressional records, and
poultry publications, Gisolfi puts a local face on one of the
twentieth century's silent agribusiness revolutions.
The provision of food is undergoing radical transformations
throughout the global community. Peter Oosterveer argues that, as a
consequence, conventional national governmental regulations can no
longer adequately respond to existing and emerging food risks and
to environmental concerns. This book examines these challenges.
Translating recent innovative thinking in the social sciences - as
seen in the work of Manuel Castells and John Urry amongst others -
to the world of food, this book reviews the challenges facing
global food governance and the innovative regulatory arrangements
that are being introduced by different governments, NGOs and
private companies. The analysis includes case-studies on the
European BSE crisis, GM-food regulation, salmon and shrimp farming
and food labelling. The author highlights how contemporary
governance arrangements also have to acknowledge increasing
consumer demand for food produced with care for the environment,
animal welfare and social justice. Developing and implementing
adequate global food governance arrangements therefore demands the
active involvement of private firms, consumers, and civil society
organisations with national governments. Peter Oosterveer's book
will appeal to scholars - postgraduate and above - involved in
industrial organization, agricultural studies and environmental
sciences as well as those with an interest in the globalisation and
governance of this important and topical area.
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