Handbook of Soil and Insects
by Steffrud, Alfred
ISBN: 9789388027298
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Imprint : Agri Horti Press
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 7495.00
Biblio : x+196 p., 25 cm
About The Book
Soil is an integral part of land wealth. It has a great importance in day-to-day human life. Agriculture products depend on fertility of soil. Insects continue to exist in all types of environment and inhabit more than two thirds of the identified species of animals in the planet earth. Insects can produce silk, honey, wax and lac that man has not been able to make as yet. Insects are the pollinators of our grain crops, fruits, vegetables, cotton and flowers. They serve as food for animals.
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Table of Contents
1. Better Soils, Better Food 1
—Kenneth C. Beeson
2. Organic Matter in Soils 13
—A.G. Norman
3. Soil Organisms and Disease 24
—Selman A. Waksman
4. Ways to Till the Soil 31
—F.L. Duley and O.R. Mathews
5. Rotations in Conservation 39
—R.E. Uhland
6. Managing Surface Runoff 48
—D.B. Krimgold
7. Grass in Farm Waterways 52
—C.E. Ramser
8. The Control of Salinity 58
—H.E. Hayward
9. Phosphate Fertilizers 64
—W.H. Pierre
10. Use of Nitrogen Fertilizers 71
—F.W. Parker
11. The Limi
