Sustainable strategies for managing weeds are critical to meeting agriculture's potential to
feed the world's population while conserving the ecosystems and biodiversity on which we …

Rice and wheat are the staple foods for almost the entire Asian population and therefore
they occupy a premium position among all food commodities. The era of the Green …

Rice cultivation always remains significant for food and livelihood security. The predictions
of increasing water deficiency under a changing climate and escalating labor shortages in …

Water is the lifeline for crop production worldwide. However, the changing climate is causing
erratic rains and frequent episodes of drought, and a continuous decline in freshwater …

Crops and weeds share the same aboveground/aerial (sunlight, space, atmospheric gases,
etc.) and underground/soil (water and nutrients) resources. Competition is a predictable …

A staple food for more than half of the world's population, rice is the third most important
cereal crop after wheat and corn. This book brings together a wealth of information on the …

Aerobic rice systems can substitute the conventional rice cultivation system in the wake of
water shortage and energy crises. The major constraint in the success of aerobic rice is high …

Rice production symbolizes the single largest land use for food production on the Earth. The
significance of this cereal as a source of energy and income seems overwhelming for …

Dry‐seeded aerobic rice (Oryza sativa L.)(DSR) is an emerging production system in the
northwest Indo‐Gangetic Plains (IGP) due to increasing constraints of labor and water …

Prognosticating crop yield still remains as one of the challenging tasks in agriculture. Even
though multiple linear regression methodology has dominated the area of predictive …