ARIC BOOKS
ARIC Books
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1. Fundamentals of Irrigation and Fertilizers By Ved Pal Singh
ISBN : 81-85290-00-8 (hb); 81-85290-01-6 (pb)
Price : US $ 30.00 (hb); US $ 18.00 (pb)
Year : 1988
Discount to Book Sellers : 20%
CONTENTS
PART-A (Irrigation)
- Sources of irrigation
- Irrigation and its history
- Water plant relationship
- Water requirement of crops
- Irrigation water efficiencies
- Duty of water
- Movement of soil water
- Forces of soil water retention by soil
- Classification of soil water
- Soil moisture constants
- Approaches for irrigation scheduling
- Measurement of soil moisture content
- Measurement of actual ET
- Determination of ET by empirical equations
- Methods of irrigation
- Measurement of irrigation water
- Quality of irrigation water
- Land Drainage.
PART-B (Fertilizers)
- Mineral nutrition of plants
- Classification of fertilizers
- Single nutrient fertilizers (primary major)
- Secondary major and micro-nutrient fertilizers
- Poly-nutrient fertilizers
- NPK and mixed fertilizers
- Soil amendments
- Methods of fertilizer application
- Recovery of nutrient
2. Abstracts of Crop Research (Ed. Ved Pal Singh)
ISBN: 81-85290-05-9
Price : Rs. 1500.00 (India) and US $ 300.00 (other countries)
Discount to Book Sellers : 20%
This publication aims to meet the growing demand for abstracts of papers published in “Crop Research” journal (Vol. 1-14, 1988-97) on various aspects of crops including cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fibres, sugar & starch, fodder, vegetables, fruits, condiments, spices, aromatic, medicinal, narcotics, flowering and ornamental plants and tree species. Total 1167 abstracts are given in this book.
3. Advances in Potato Science (Editors: R.K. Maiti and V.P.Singh)
ISBN: 81-85290-07-5 (hardcover)
Price : Rs. 750.00 (India) and US $ 150.00 (other countries)
Discount to Book Sellers : 20%
CONTENTS
- History and Evolution of Potato
- Physiology of Potato Plant
- Mineral Nutrition of Potato
- Potato Growth and Productivity
- Cytogenetics and Breeding in Potato
- Biochemistry of Potato
- Quality of Potato
- Potato Bio-technology
- Potato Agro-technology
4. Cactus-Biology, Propagation and conservation (Editors : Edited by : R. K. Maiti, V. P. Singh, A. Baquie, E. Sanchez-Arreola, P Wesch-Ebeling, Jaime Alischa Cuervo Parra, Hector Perdome-Velazquez and J. L. Lorenzo T.)
ISBN: 81-85920-08-3 Year: 2003
Pages: 98 (paperback) Price: Rs. 350 (US $ 95)
CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Variability in seed morphology of cactaceae species
- Process of germination, seedling growth and characterization of seedlings
- Morphology and anatomy of some cactus species adapted in high land valley of Puebla, Mexico
- Phenology of some species of cactaceae with special reference to Mammillaria, 6. Germination, propagation and conservation of Echinocereus, Mammillaria, Ferocactus and Gymnocaly speceis of Cactaceae
- Propagation Conservation and Creation of a germplasm bank of cactaceae at the seedling stage in a green house nursery
- Efficient transfer of technology from laboratory to green house in the massive propagation of cactus species
5. Advances in Sorghum Science (Editors : R. K. Maiti, V. P. Singh and A. B. Mendoza)
ISBN : 81-85920-09-1 Year : 2004
Pages : 156 (paperback) Price : Rs. 450 (US $ 150)
CONTENTS
- Research Trends in Agronomy Management of Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]
- Research Advances on the Vegetable and Reproductive Growth and Productivity of Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench]
- Recent Approaches on the Physiological basis of Crop Growth in Sorghum under Diverse Edapho-climatic Conditions
- Research Trends on Mineral Nutrition in Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Monench]
- Research Trends on Sorghum Food and Feed Grain, Fodder Value and their Diversification of Uses
- Research Advances on Biotic Factors Affecting Sorghum Growth and Grain Quality
- Recent Approaches on the Use of Biotechnology in Sorghum Crop Improvement
- Some Recent Advances in Sorghum Breeding
- A Review on Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) Seeds and Seedling Establishing
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