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.
Other chapters such as on the agronomy, are much better.
While disease and insect damage are major constraints to chickpea production, they can be largely managed with good agronomy.
Thus, the layout of the book covers the taxonomy, composition (including nutritional and pharmocognosy studies), uses, ecology, propagation, agronomy, breeding and genetic resources.
These advances in plant breeding, agronomy, fertilizers, and pesticides were much slower to reach today's developing countries.
Ecologically sustainable coffee production is certainly possible by applying best practices of agronomy, crop protection and post-harvest processing.
The accumulated experimental evidence for and against the so-called plant defense theory15-18 is equivocal19,20 and its usefulness for the practical application in agronomy disputable14.
Over onethird of the book (73 pp) covers some basic biological concepts, including sections on plant physiology, agronomy and cellular and molecular biology.
However, there are other important traits related to quality and agronomy that need to be considered.
