If policy is the delivery mechanism that determines who get what, when, how and where; then are you aware of some common policy measure? When a policy is passed most people will wait to get it impacts on media tool which might may be skewed to personal interest or to lobby groups interest. This book attempts to explain some agricultural common policy measure, procedure in analysis and their impacts. This book is easy to read and helps it audience understand the meaning of agricultural policy dynamic nature by giving local and international examples that show how the audience agricultural activities are affected by policy measure. By helping you understand the policy measures, the audience will be able to legally mitigate the possible negative effect of a policy and maximize the benefits of a certain policy measure.

Cities that pride in only huge concrete structures deny the citizens the benefits of greenspaces. City planning should add green space establishment and maintenance as an important aspect in maintaining a healthy and scenic city. This can be achieved by following simple guidelines in policy, establishment and maintenance. This book shows some policy measures that would encourage participation in funding, establishment and maintain ace of urban greenspaces. The guidelines also show step by step on how to choose greenspace sites, types of trees to choose, establishment and maintenance. The book also provides case studies of restored and maintained green spaces after years of destruction through grabbing and neglect. Green spaces are important for healthy urban community; therefore, each urban authority should aim at providing sufficient greenspaces.

Horticulture is labelled a lucrative agribusiness option. However, it's a long walk to lucrative horticulture markets, due to the many requirements that need to be fulfilled. There are so many options in vegetable and fruit production practices that can be easily carried out in an affordable manner to leap the benefits of the horticultural markets. When an entrepreneur engages these practices properly, the farms sustainability is guaranteed. By articulating the kind of product and target market, this book emphasizes the use of integrated pest, disease and weed management to ensure profitability and sustainability of a horticultural farm. This book looks at horticulture production in light of climate change, policy requirement and food security issues that may affect availability of different markets and market strategies. Compliance with Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) is important to horticulture management and profitability, thus the need to carefully select acceptable production techniques for the target market.

All those spices and herbs in your spice rack can do more than provide calorie-free, natural flavourings to enhance and make food delicious. Spices and herbs provide a variety of health benefits depending on how they are produced, prepared and taken. This book outlines some established health benefits of more than 50 different herbs and spices. It also describes the production of the spices and handling procedures that ensures maximum benefits. In the use of herbs and spices and herbs in food and health benefits, different community are oriented towards some herbs and spices combinations. This book outline how different regions in the world utilizes herbs and spices in food flavouring. Despite the health benefit of the herbs and spices, its crucial also to take precaution especially for pregnant women and people with allergies.

Many professional pest control operators have a tendency to market chemical pesticide to farmers as a sure way of pest control. Chemical pesticides do little to help in the farm future profitability, sustainability and ecosystem. However, there are pest management methods that are less costly, Environmentally friendly and more sustainable. These pest management strategies when well used can promote the future growth of the farm and the image of the farm locally and globally, as discussed in this book. This book walks the audience through the different methods to safely and humanely control pest whether mammals, birds or insect. By focusing on the identification, quantification, specification of control possibilities and proper application and monitoring and evaluation of pest, this book help in avoiding mis-identification which equals to mis-management. The book provides a wholistic approach to crop pest control that will reserve the welfare of the laborers and the pest ecosystem.

Agriculture and Industrial Development discusses the basic concept of agriculture, crop farming and livestock farming. It includes different types of agricultural industries and the importance of industrial revolution in the field of agriculture. This book also discusses about development of agriculture in the rural areas, role of agricultural cooperatives, agricultural entrepreneurship and technologies in agricultural industry development and relationship of industrial development in the urban centers to the resource hinterland. It provides the reader with insights of agriculture associated with the industrial development so as to better understand the importance of industrial revolution in the field of agriculture and the role of advance technologies in the development of agricultural industries.

Financial Management For Farmers lays down the importance of financial management for the farmers and explains the readers the various ways in which the farmers can manage their finances in better ways to help them support their lives and increase their incomes in better ways. This book also discusses about the meaning of financial management, the finances in farming practices, the analysis of finances for farming businesses, book keeping for the farmers, the management of costs and pricing in the farming sector and risk management regarding finances in the farming sector. It also provide the readers with the necessary insights into the matter regarding finances in the farming sector and explains them the ways in which the finances can properly be looked after.

Empowering Farm Women Through Dairy Farm Co-operatives explains the importance of the dairy farming in a global perspective. This book explains the history of dairy farming, processes involved in dairy farming, significance of dairy farming, automation and innovative technologies that are a part of dairy farming. The concept of dairy farm cooperatives has been explained along with the role of farm women in developing countries. The cooperative operations in dairy, role of dairy cooperatives and the influence of the dairy farming cooperatives has been explained in detail. The importance of animal healthcare in dairy and the importance of dairy farming in empowerment of women has been explained in detail. Dairy farming is explained as a source of economic empowerment and the importance of dairy in enhancing the socio-economic relations have been explained in detail. This book gives a comprehensive idea of diary farming and the importance of dairy farming in empowering women.

Agricultural Science and Food Security discusses the challenges and hurdles in global food security. The scope of the book includes, but not limited to agricultural science, sustainable agricultural food production, food production and efficiency in utilization of agricultural resources. The main reason is the poor management of pests, weeds ad diseases in crops that is obstructing the way of food security globally ad to address the same, management of same has been discussed in details to maximize production of food crops.

Agricultural Cooperatives examines the principles and definitions related to this field in detail. History, growth, related theories and relevant approaches have been discussed to deepen the understanding of readers. To broaden the scope of the agricultural cooperatives, its association with sustainable development has been explained. Trends and emerging issues in agricultural cooperatives are also covered in detail. At last, the future scope and further space for development in agricultural cooperatives have elaborated.

The ability and propensity of farmers to engage in entrepreneurial behaviors is a key explanation of the different patterns of responses within the sector. The book usually focuses on how the challenges of startup agribusinesses can be overcome in a cost and time effective manner. The book will prove to be a facilitating guide for everyone in startup agripreneurship community. The purpose of this book is to provide a better understanding of the concept and practice of entrepreneurship.

Agricultural Marketing starts with the basic introduction of marketing in agriculture. Marketing plays a crucial role in agriculture and farming, as this sector is highly under-rated, and efforts by farmers often get ignored and as a result they did not due credit for their intensive work. To highlight the same, dimensions of agricultural market and modern marketing techniques are discussed. Readers can further find the detailed insights regarding relation between pricings and agriculture market along with importance and role of information and communication technology in agricultural marketing.