Encyclopedia of Agriculture Research : Volume : 1 - 2/ Gary C Reiter; Caleb J Schuster.

Volume : 1 1. Computers and electronics in innovative olive oil mill production chain 2. A methodology for resource assignment and scheduling in uncertain environment and its applications to farm work management
3. Recent advances on agricultural software
4. Mechanized land application of organic fertilizers 5. Pesticide models for simulating environmental transport of soil fumigants
6. The fungicides
7. Green fluorescent protein
8. The role of agroforestry development in transition from neoclassic economy to bio-based economy 9. Building true forecasts into crop disease management systems 10. Optical metrology in agriculture
11. Nutritional and safety assessment of feeds from genetically modified plants 12. Optimizing the content of nutritionally essential trace metals in Chinese cabbage (Brassica chinesis l.) with soil applications of
compost or nitrogen 13. Amplification of small interfering RNAs in transgenic plants
14. Downstream processing strategies for the purification of recombinant proteins from transgenic maize 15. Banana trade worldwide
16. How mathematics are helping the olive oil industry

Volume : 2 17. Lignan biosynthesis enhancement in transgenic wheat 18. Sustained agriculture 19. Spate irrigation of rangelands 20. A stochastic evaluation of the validity of an animal-health survey in Uruguay 21. Serological monitoring of selected avian pathogens of commercial poultry farms in Uruguay 22. Assessing the seroprevalence for abortigenic diseases of ovine herds based on diagnostic tests applied to individual- animals
in Uruguay
23. Land titling and agricultural development
24. Sustainable irrigated agricultural production of countries in economic transition 25. Agricultural production in China
26. Social labels for agricultural products
27. Improvement of plant resistance to pathogens and insects by the use of genes of protease inhibitors 28. The role of culture and food habits in olive-oil purchase behaviour 29. A comparative economic study of China's and Australia's cotton production 30. Invasive alien plant species
31. Planning to fight speculation 32. Contemporary ecological-economic assessment of contaminated agricultural lands 33. The role of a geographic and technological based index in the agricultural regional income convergence of Minas Gerais state,
Brazil 34. Natural protection from international competition in the livestock industry 35. A comparison of hedging strategies and effectiveness for storable and non-storable commodities 36. Determinants of crop choices by Bangladeshi farmers 37. A prospective analysis for the role of the cap in rural economies and related research needs
38. Milk supply forecasting for a airy cooperative in the UK using univariate time series modelling techniques

Presents and discusses research in the study of agriculture, with a particular focus on technology, production and economics. This book covers topics that include agricultural software; mechanised land application of organic fertilisers; pesticide models; optical metrology in agriculture; spate irrigation of rangelands; and, more.