- Industry: Agriculture
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A classification based on quantitative topsoil and subsoil parameters directly relevant to plant growth; various soil condition 'modifiers' define specific types of soil adversity or complexes of edaphic problems.
Industry:Agriculture
1). The manner in which a particular set of farm resources is assembled within its environment, by means of technology, for the production of primary agricultural products. 2). A collection of distinct functional units, where crops, livestock, and marketing activities interact because of the joint inputs received from the environment and management personnel. 3). A unique and reasonably stable arrangement of farming enterprises that a household manages according to well-defined practices in response to the physical, biological, and socioeconomic environment and resources. These factors combine to influence output and production methods.
Industry:Agriculture
A disease caused by Ustilaginoidea virens. The fungus transforms individual grains of the panicle into greenish spore balls that have a velvety appearance. The spore balls are small at first and enclose the floral parts. They are covered with a membrane which bursts as a result of further growth and the color of the ball becomes orange and later yellowish green or greenish black. (Also known as grain smut)
Industry:Agriculture
Land that is ordinarily used for crops but allowed to lie idle between crops.
Industry:Agriculture
A temperature scale in which the freezing point of water is taken as 32 ° and the boiling point of water as 212 ° (or 100 °) under standard atmospheric pressure.
Industry:Agriculture
An experiment where treatments are combinations of two or more factors. The treatments can be either complete factorial combinations or incomplete factorial combinations.
Industry:Agriculture
Where two or more treatments of an experiment produce different interactions.
Industry:Agriculture
The domain of possible adaptation of a cropping pattern. It is composed of land types and other physical factors, to which the cropping pattern is adapted.
Industry:Agriculture
