Six Chemicals That Changed Agriculture
Autor Robert L. Zimdahlen Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iul 2015
Agriculture is the world's most important environment interaction, the essential human activity, and an increasingly controversial activity because of its use and presumed misuse of chemistry. The major characteristics of US agriculture for at least the last six decades have been rising productivity, declining number of mid-size farms, increasing farm size, an increasing percentage of farm production on fewer, large farms, increasing dependence of chemical technology and more developmental research being done by the agricultural chemical industry rather than by independent land-grant universities. Another equally important feature of modern agriculture is wide-spread suspicion of its technology by the public. The book will recount examples of this suspicion related to specific chemicals and present the essence of the suspicion and its results.
- Offers an historical analysis of the discovery and development some aspects of the chemistry of modern agriculture
- Addresses the advantages, disadvantages, desirable and undesirable results of the use of each of the chosen chemicals and compares and contrasts the real and frequently assumed problems of their use
- Provides valuable insights into the history and application of these focused chemicals, enabling readers to apply the lessons to new agricultural chemical developments
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780128005613
ISBN-10: 0128005610
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE
ISBN-10: 0128005610
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: ELSEVIER SCIENCE
Public țintă
Researchers and students in agro-chemical engineering, crop development, agriculture science, food toxicology, food safetyCuprins
1. Introduction 2. The Characteristics of Modern Agriculture Enabled by Chemicals3. Lime: A Soil Amendment4. Nitrogen5. Phosphorus6. 2,4-D: An Herbicide7. DDT: An Insecticide8. Recombinant DNA9. Antibiotics10. Conclusion