The elements of industrial electronics. Microelectronics and the microprocessor. Field crops. Protected crops. Crop handling, processing and storage. Pigs, sheep and poutry. Cattle. Computers in farm management.

This book covers the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Microelectronics, Circuits, and Systems (Micro2021) having design and developments of devices, micro- and nanotechnologies, and electronic appliances. This book includes the latest developments and emerging research topics in material sciences, devices, microelectronics, circuits, nanotechnology, system design and testing, simulation, sensors, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, and its different applications. This book is of great attraction to researchers and professionals working in electronics, microelectronics, electrical, and computer engineering.

The second of a seven-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in published literature of agricultural engineering during the past century with emphasis on the last forty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the most important journals, report series, and monographs for the developed countries as well as those in the Third World.

The emergence of a truly global economy in the 1970s and the need to understand the subsequent changes in economic structure provided the impetus for this synthesis of the sociology of agriculture. The book offers the first formulations of a political economy theory that explains the transnational social and production relations of food and agriculture. Drawing upon studies of labour, technology, the state and gender, the contributors put forward a basis for reassessing and restating the intellectual framework of agriculture.