Many agricultural crops worldwide, especially in semi-arid climates, suffer from iron deficiencies. Among plants sensitive to iron deficiency are apples, avocado, bananas, barley, beans, citrus, cotton, grapes, peanuts, pecans, potatoes, sorghum, soybeans, and numerous ornamental plants. Deficiencies are usually recognized by chlorotic, in new leaves and are typically found among sensitive crops grown in calcareous or yellowed, interveinal areas soils which cover over 30% of the earth's land surface. Iron deficiency may lead, in extreme cases, to complete crop failure. In intensive...

The use of organic residues as a means of maintaining and increasing soil fertility is of long-standing. This tradition has been somewhat neglected since the introduc tion of mineral fertilizers at low cost. More and more farmers and scientists are now showing renewed interest in the proper and effective use of org tnic residues, composts and other recycled organic additives. The role and function of organic amendments in modern agricultural systems have become topics of major interest in the scientific and agricultural communities. Research work on residue disposal has provided new concepts...

In March, 1983 a workshop on Pollutants in Porous Media was hosted by the Institute of Soils and Water of the Agricultural Research Organi- zation in Bet Dagan, Israel. At this workshop, the unsaturated zone be- tween the soil surface and groundwater was the focal point of discus- sions for scientists from various disciplines such as soil chemists, physicists, biologists and environmental engineers. Since then, the prob- lem of soil and water pollution has only worsened as more and more cases of pollution caused by human activities including agriculture and industry have been revealed. A...

Projektarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Statistik, Note: 1,00, Johannes Kepler Universitat Linz (Institut fur Angewandte Statistik), Veranstaltung: Statistische Projekte und Methoden statistischer Projekte, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: EU-SILC ist eine Erhebung, durch die jahrlich Informationen uber die Lebensbedingungen der Privathaushalte in der Europaischen Union gesammelt werden. Die Republik Osterreich nimmt seit 2003 an diesem Projekt teil. Die Befragung wird durch die Statistik Austria durchgefuhrt, wobei rund 4.500 Haushalte jahrlich in Osterreich partizipieren. Die Ergebnisse...

Many agricultural crops worldwide, especially in semi-arid climates, suffer from iron deficiencies. Among plants sensitive to iron deficiency are apples, avocado, bananas, barley, beans, citrus, cotton, grapes, peanuts, pecans, potatoes, sorghum, soybeans, and numerous ornamental plants. Deficiencies are usually recognized by chlorotic, in new leaves and are typically found among sensitive crops grown in calcareous or yellowed, interveinal areas soils which cover over 30% of the earth's land surface. Iron deficiency may lead, in extreme cases, to complete crop failure. In intensive...

In the current English-language publication market, this book is one of the earliest academic monographs to comparatively investigate different feminist scholars and academic feminism across the Taiwan Strait.