Statistics in Social Science and Agricultural Research

by Debasis Bhattacharya, Soma Roychowdhury

Overview

Plant diseases need to be controlled to maintain the quality and abundance of food, feed, and fiber produced by growers around the world. Different approaches may be used to prevent, mitigate or control plant diseases. Beyond good agronomic and horticultural practices, growers often rely heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Such inputs to agriculture have contributed significantly to the spectacular improvements in crop productivity and quality over the past 100 years. However, the environmental pollution caused by excessive use and misuse of agrochemicals, as well as fear-mongering by some opponents of pesticides, has led to considerable changes in people's attitudes towards the use of pesticides in agriculture This book is a complete source of valuable, current information on important plant virus diseases It will serve as practical resource, guiding its readers toward the development and application of novel technologies for plant virus disease control Contents: Introduction Biological Control of plant Pathogens; Seed Treatment for Agronomic Crops; Non- chemical Control of Plant Diseases in the Home Garden; Host Storage plant and Varietal Resistance to Post Harvest Insect Attack; Biology and Control of other Storage Pests; Overview of Rood and Tuber Crops; Crop Rotation and Plant Disease Management; Plant Diseases Control

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789355940254
Publisher:	Concept Publishing Company Pvt. Ltd.
Publication date:	06/30/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	276
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Debasis Bhattacharya is a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Calcutta. He is actively engaged in teaching and research for more than two decades. He is a Visiting Professor of the Department of Statistics in the University of California at Davis, USA. He has to his credit a significant number of research papers published in national and international journals of repute. He authored several books in Statistics, Probability and Statistical Inference. Dr. Bhattacharya is the Managing Editor of International Journal of Statistics and Management Systems. At present he is a Professor in Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, India.

Soma Roychowdhury did her Ph.D. from the Department of Statistics, University of Calcutta. She is the author of several books in Statistics, Probability and Statistical Inference and research papers published in reputed national and international journals. She is the recipient of Gold centered medal for standing first among the female candidates in the Secondary Examination of West Bengal Board of Secondary Education. Dr. Roychowdhury is a Visiting Professor of the Department of Statistics, University of California at Davis, USA. She visited Stanford University, USA, Korea University at Seoul, National University of Singapore, Fu-Jen University, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan. At present she is Head of the Department of Public Systems Management, Indian Institute of Social Welfare and Business Management, Calcutta, India.