0 the science of farming, including the study of soil, plants, and animals, and ways to improve the production of food on farms:
Agronomy encompasses work in many areas including plant genetics, crop rotation, irrigation, and food production.
They follow indigenous rice agronomy, ignoring the use of fertilizers, pesticides and even supplementary feed for the fish reared in the system.
Thirteen chapters cover taxonomy and distribution, production volumes, ecology and agronomy, harvesting, processing, economics and marketing.
This book should be essential reading for everyone concerned with tropical agronomy research.
The questionnaire requested information on the crops grown, their agronomy including sowing date, pest pressure and the agrochemicals used.
However, compared to the transgenic research, it was more diverse and comprised both agronomy and breeding, the latter supported by basic molecular marker research.
Most would see seedling management as a modest section of crop agronomy and seeds better included in developmental physiology.
However, growing crops is agronomy, which is defined as the scientific and stable management of crops.
However, there are other important traits related to quality and agronomy that need to be considered.
