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Tarakad Vaidyanatha Ramakrishna Ayyar (20 July 1880 – 13 February 1952) was a pioneer Indian entomologist who worked in the agricultural department in British India. He described numerous species of insect, especially the thrips, catalogued Indian insect pests, taught, and wrote a landmark textbook of entomology, the Handbook of Economic Entomology for South India (1940).
Agricultural economics is an applied field of economics concerned with the application of economic theory in optimizing the production and distribution of food and fiber products. Agricultural economics began as a branch of economics that specifically dealt with land usage. It focused on maximizing the crop yield while maintaining a good soil ...
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John Douglas Tothill DSc, CMG [1] (February 1888 - 1969 Anstruther), was an English-born entomologist, agriculturalist and civil servant, whose career took him to Canada, Fiji, Uganda and the Sudan.
Agricultural engineering, also known as agricultural and biosystems engineering, is the field of study and application of engineering science and designs principles for agriculture purposes, combining the various disciplines of mechanical, civil, electrical, food science, environmental, software, and chemical engineering to improve the efficiency of farms and agribusiness enterprises [1] as ...
James A. Duke (4 April 1929 – 10 December 2017) was an American botanist. [1] He was the author of numerous publications on botanical medicine, including the CRC Handbook of Medicinal Herbs.
Agriculture is a major component of the New York economy. [3] As of the 2012 census of agriculture, there were over 35,000 farms covering an area of 7 million acres (28,000 km 2) which contributed $5.4 billion in gross sales value and $1.2 billion in net farm income to the national economy.