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A review of remote sensing applications in agriculture for food security: Crop growth and yield, irrigation, and crop losses

Journal of Hydrology, 2020
The global population is expected to reach 9.8 billion by 2050. There is an exponential growth of food production to meet the needs of the growing population.
L. Karthikeyan, I. Chawla, A. Mishra
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Men’s Crops? Women’s Crops? The Gender Patterns of Cropping in Ghana

World Development, 2002
Abstract Cultural distinctions between men’s crops and women’s crops are found frequently in the literature on agriculture in West Africa. This paper uses nationally representative household survey data from Ghana to examine whether crops can be divided into men’s and women’s crops.
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Brassica Crops and Allied Cruciferous Crops Grain Crops

Nature, 1949
THE production of food continues to be of vital importance to mankind, and there is no dearth of books for the guidance of cultivators. In the two books under review there is a wealth of information on the growing of bigger and better crops. Brassica Crops and Allied Cruciferous Crops By Chas. H. Oldham.
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Root Crops

2014
Discusses environmental preferences, culture, common problems, harvesting and storage of various root vegetables.
Relf, Diane, McDaniel, Alan, 1948-
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Crop domestication and indigenous crops.

2021
Abstract Plant domestication is the genetic modification of a wild species to create a new form of a plant altered to meet human needs (Doebley et al., 2006). The basis of domestication is intentional selection by farmers, a process which eventually lead to improvements in plant adaptation to cultivation, yields, nutritional quality, ease of ...
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Both Crops Main Crops—Density Constant—Combined Crop Responses

1993
Up to this point responses from both crops have not been combined. Each crop response has been treated independently. Although this might satisfy some experimenters, it is not useful in evaluating cropping systems and in studying results as a farmer would. He would be interested in some combination of yields, Y 1 and Y 2 , say, from both crops.
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Reactive oxygen species and antioxidant machinery in abiotic stress tolerance in crop plants.

Plant physiology and biochemistry : PPB, 2010
S. Gill, N. Tuteja
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Effective uptake of submicrometre plastics by crop plants via a crack-entry mode

Nature Sustainability, 2020
Lianzhen Li, Yongming Luo, Ruijie Li, Qian-Xiong Zhou, W. Peijnenburg, N. Yin, Jie Yang, C. Tu, Yunchao Zhang   +8 more
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Fodder Crops and Intensive Crops

1958
Contained within the 3rd Edition (1957) of the Atlas of Canada is a map that shows seven condensed maps showing the distribution of areas devoted to growing fodder, hay, corn for silage, sugar beets, potatoes, vegetable crops, orchards, and tobacco circa 1951.
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Crop losses to pests

Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2005
E. Oerke
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