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Jiří Blahovec
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Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic
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Miroslav Kutílek
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Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
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Table of contents (23 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Soil and Allocation in Agriculture
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- Marcello Pagliai, Nadia Vignozzi
Pages 13-38
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- Miroslav Kutílek, Miroslav Krejča, Jana Kupcová-Vlašimská
Pages 51-59
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- Martin Libra, Vladislav Poulek
Pages 83-104
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- Victor Yakushev, Dmitry Kurtener, Vladimir Badenko
Pages 119-133
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Properties and Quality
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Front Matter
Pages 135-135
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- Jaroslav Buchar, Libor Severa, Jana Simeonovová
Pages 157-165
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- Józef Horabik, Marek Molenda
Pages 195-217
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- Tomasz Jeliński, Jadwiga Sadowska, Józef Fornal
Pages 219-240
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- Sebnem Tavman, Perihan Yolci
Pages 241-256
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- Józef Fornal, Wioletta Błaszczak, Stanisław Grundas
Pages 281-308
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Fruits
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Front Matter
Pages 309-309
About this book
The frrst attempts to use physical methods in agriculture can be found in nineteenth century as a necessary component of farm and food machinery. There were mechanics, electricity and physical chemistry that were the first physical disciplines used in agriculture and food industry. In the same time period the studies on physical properties of soils started to be one of main topics of soil science. The twentieth century was a century of research on physical properties of agromaterials. The physical properties of agromaterials have been studied e. g. in the USA, where a big role has been played by ASAE (1907), and in the Soviet Union where the special Institute of Agrophysics was founded (1932) by Academician Ioffe. The ASAE's activity was enlarged in 1960s and 1970s, especially with the role playing by the Mohsenin's group and its followers. At that time the Institute of Agrophysics of Polish Academy of Sciences was founded in Lublin and conferences on physical methods in agriculture began to be organised. The participants of the last conference - "Physical Methods in Agriculture - Approach to Precision and Quality", held on August 27-30, 2001, have prepared the basis for this book. Part of the conference participants decided to enlarge their conference papers to be more general and more instructive in relation to further development of the science. New papers prepared under this deciSion were reviewed, discussed and revised, repeatedly, to be presented in this book.
Editors and Affiliations
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Czech University of Agriculture, Prague, Czech Republic
Jiří Blahovec
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Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic
Miroslav Kutílek