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Features:

• Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K; Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1984 edition (11 December 2012)
• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Paperback ‏ : ‎ 194 pages
• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3642697860
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3642697869
• Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 350 g
• Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 16.99 x 1.22 x 24.41 cm
• Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ India

Energy and agriculture are both extremely broad subjects and their interactions – the subject of this book – cover almost the full spectrum of the agricultural sciences. Yet the subject is a relatively new one whose importance first received widespread recognition barely a decade ago, following the dramatic increase in oil prices during 1973. The impact of this increase was such as to promote a world-wide debate on the future direction that agriculture should take. This debate was, and is, of particular concern in countries where agriculture plays a leading role in economic and social development. During the last half century many national agricultural systems have been transformed from almost closed, self-sufficient systems with few locally produced inputs geared to satisfy local requirements, to intensive, open systems, utilizing large quantities of energy-rich inputs such as fossil fuel for manufactured agro-chemicals, water distribution and imported animal feedstuffs to produce a range of sophisticated products, often for export, which in tum require many energy-rich inputs for their marketing. This industrialization of agriculture has proved to be very successful in many respects and indeed was accepted as a general model for agricultural development allowing increased productivity and efficiency per unit land, labor and water, even in areas with limited natural resources.