This study utilizes a panel fixed effects model to explore the economic impact of hurricanes on local crop production in Jamaica using quarterly 1999-2008 micro level data. We find, in general, that hurricanes will have a negative impact on production but not for crops grown below ground. The...

Cereals are grown for grain and are used both to provide food and feed. In Romania, cereals occupy an important place in the structure of use of agricultural areas, observing a tendency to increase the areas where cereals are grown due to their importance, but also due to the fact that Romania...

Bio-dynamic farming is an alternative farming system where the chemical fertilizers are substituted with the mobilization of nutrients for the use of the plants from the environment with the help of high levels of microbes. This chapter discuss in detail the procedure for the bio-dynamic...