Books in the Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering series

Looks at new and established technology for processing, physical and biochemical properties of fruits and vegetables and their products, challenges of the processing industry, and other related aspects, such as effect of processing on nutritional content, bioavailability, economic utilization of bio-wastes, and processing byproducts.

This new volume, Engineering Interventions in Sustainable Trickle Irrigation: Irrigation Requirements and Uniformity, Fertigation, and Crop Performance, presents valuable research that evaluates crop water and fertigation requirements, examines optimum irrigation and fertigation scheduling, and analyzes the performance of agricultural crops under micro irrigation. With an interdisciplinary perspective, this volume addresses the urgent need to explore and investigates the current shortcomings and challenges of water resources engineering, especially in micro irrigation engineering.