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Molluscicidal Activity of Makabuhay (Tinospora rhumpi) Extract on Golden Apple Snails as Bio Pesticide of Rice (Oryza sativa) by Ramos, Jessie DC. Publication: Aurora ASCOT 2023 . xii, 39 pages : , Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Crop Science). Date: 2023 Availability: Items available: ASCOT Library - Esteves Campus (1),

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Handbook of biopesticides and alternative agriculture: new technologies, applications, markets and potentials   Publication: London Koros Press Limited 2014 . viii, 318 pages : , 1. Biological pest control – Overview – Classical biological control – Biological control with microorganisms – Physical and mechanical control – 2. A total system approach to sustainable pest management – Premise of a revised approach – Attempts for change: no real change – New direction – 3. Principles of organic agriculture – The principles – Organic certification – Organic Foods Production Act of 1990 – Organic farming methods – Crop diversity – Plant nutrition – Advance sowing – Sowing seeds indoors – 4. Motivations for organic agriculture – Food safety – Organic food – Natural foods – Organic beans – Organic clothing – 5. Organic farming and biodiversity – Benefits to biodiversity – Highly-impacted animal species – Farmers' benefits from increased biodiversity – Organic wine – 6. Improvements in environmental quality from precision farming – A growing hunger – The need for meat – Food crop production – Bio-energy and food crops – carbon footprint and other environmental aims – Green Revolution – Agricultural production and food security – Climate change – Other uses and related phenomena – Theoretical causes – Activism – Gender and global food security policy – Risks to food security – 7. The spread of conservation agriculture – The principles of conservation agriculture – A typology of terms – Conservation agriculture as a fundamental change – Reduced greenhouse gas emissions – The adoption of conservation agriculture – Ecological challenges in the new century – Apocalyptic thinking as the problem – Consumerism as competitive disease – Valuing place and community – Developing local economies of scale – 8. Techniques of organic gardening and farming – Multiple cropping – Underutilised crop – No-dig gardening – No-till farming – Pollination management – Sheet mulching – Square foot gardening – 9. Succession planting – Weed control – Mulch – Noxious weed – Stale seed bed – Xeriscaping – Greywater – Application of recycled greywater – Organisms used in water purification – 10. Industrial agriculture – British agricultural revolution – Farm life in the 15th to 18th century – Soil maintenance – Mechanization of agriculture – Selective breeding – Agricultural policy – Foot-and-mouth disease – Objectives of market intervention – Arguments against market intervention – Developed world cases – Sustainable agriculture. Date: 2014 Availability: Items available: ASCOT Library - Bazal Campus Reference [Ref 632.96 H19 2014] (1),

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