Take your growing skills to new levels with this practical handbook to all things marijuana, from seedlings to clipping, and everything in between.From soil pH and composting to irrigation and curing
Not too long ago, it might have seemed impossible that cannabis would step out of the shadows into the mainstream. But now, as legalization sweeps the globe, a new weed culture is evolving with its ow
There are millions of images of marijuana plants and buds on the Internet, sold as prints and posters, and bound in books—but few bring new life to the subject. In this book, photographer Chris LaPris
Arnab Dey examines the intersecting role of law, ecology, and agronomy in shaping the history of tea and its plantations in British east India. He suggests that looking afresh at the legal, environmental, and agro-economic aspects of tea production illuminate covert, expedient, and often illegal administrative and commercial dealings that had an immediate and long-term human and environmental impact on the region. Critiquing this imperial commodity's advertised mandate of agrarian modernization in colonial India, Dey points to numerous tea pests, disease ecologies, felled forests, harsh working conditions, wage manipulation, and political resistance as examples of tea's unseemly legacy in the subcontinent. Dey draws together the plant and the plantation in highlighting the ironies of the tea economy and its consequences for the agrarian history of eastern India.
Rural granaries in northern Gaul (sixth century BCE – fourth century CE) offers a comprehensive account of rural grain storage and its role in the economy of a key region of the Roman Empire.
Beauty of Cannabis is a visual journey into the spectacular marijuana strains being grown in the 21st Century. Award-winning photographer Spurs Broken takes us as deep as the lens will allow by direct
Agronomic Rice Practices and Postharvest Processing: Production and Quality Improvement addresses three important agricultural aspects of rice: physical characteristics, physico-chemical characteristi
This is a practical guide to crossing in oil palm for both breeding and genetic studies as well as commercial seed production. Crossing is used extensively in the production of commercial seed and cro