Agronomy

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
אדרונומיה
Name (Latin)
Agronomy
Name (Arabic)
علم الزراعة
See Also From tracing topical name
Agriculture
Crops
Soil management
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q173113
Library of congress: sh 91006254
Sources of Information
  • LC data base, 12/12/91(agronomy)
  • Dict. agr. term.(agronomy, theory of crop production and soil management)
  • Dermine vocab. of agr.(agronomy; field husbandry; deals with the theory and practice of field-crop production and the scientific management of soil)
  • Black's agr. dict.(agronomy, branch of agriculture concerned with the theory and practice of field-crop production and the scientific management of soil)
  • CAB thes.(agronomy)
  • Web. 3.
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Wikipedia description:

Agronomy is the sub-discipline of plant agriculture focused on the science and technology of crop production and soil management as it pertains to field crops in the context of industrial agriculture and cultivation with Intensive farming methods. Agronomy has come to include the research of plant genetics, plant physiology, meteorology, and soil science. It is the application of a combination of sciences such as biology, chemistry, economics, ecology, earth science, and genetics. Professionals in the field are known as agriculturists or better known as agronomists, as well as certified crop advisors (CCA) in the US.

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