Banana Production in Venezuela: Novel Solutions to Productivity and Plant Health

Olivares Campos, Barlin Orlando

Banana Production in Venezuela: Novel Solutions to Productivity and Plant Health
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-15
  • 售價: $5,620
  • 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,339
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 176
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031344774
  • ISBN-13: 9783031344770

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商品描述

This book presents an important contribution to the knowledge of the banana soils of Venezuela. Banana, the edible fruit of Musaceae, is a staple food for more than 400 million people worldwide due to their nutritional and energy attributes. This makes Musaceae a crop of worldwide relevance, particularly in tropical regions, highlighting the impact of improved Musaceae cropping systems in the current efforts worldwide oriented towards a new agricultural revolution based on sustainable intensification. To achieve this, better practices for food production based on scientific and technical research capable to consider the complexity and variability within the agri-food sector are necessary. The research presented in this book is oriented towards providing answers to the causes of two aspects considered of high relevance for banana production, both affecting productivity and sustainability, always addressed for the Venezuelan conditions, one of the world's largest producing countries: 1- The impact of phytosanitary risks related to Fusarium Wilt (FW) and the influence of the soil on the incidence of Banana Wilt (BW); and 2- An observed trend towards loss of productivity and decline of soil quality in some commercial farms of Aragua and Trujillo states in Venezuela.

The book presents a pioneering study in the application of categorical regression (CATREG) in the characterization of banana soils and analyses soil morphological variables, such as texture, dry consistency, biological activity, reaction to HCl, and type of structure to characterize soil productivity for growing healthy bananas. It develops, for the first time in Venezuela, risk analysis and climatic suitability maps for lethal wilt disease in bananas caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense (Foc) Tropical Race 4 (TR4) (syn. Fusarium odoratissimum). Innovative machine learning techniques are used to predict BW so that future crop development can be done more efficiently and sustainably.

商品描述(中文翻譯)

本書對於委內瑞拉香蕉土壤的知識做出了重要貢獻。香蕉，作為芭蕉科（Musaceae）的可食用果實，因其營養和能量特性，成為全球超過四億人主要的糧食來源。這使得芭蕉科作物在全球範圍內具有重要意義，特別是在熱帶地區，突顯了改進芭蕉科栽培系統在當前全球朝向基於可持續強化的新農業革命努力中的影響。為了實現這一目標，需要基於科學和技術研究的更好食品生產實踐，這些研究能夠考慮農食業內部的複雜性和變異性。本書所呈現的研究旨在回答兩個被認為對香蕉生產具有高度相關性的方面，這兩者都影響生產力和可持續性，並始終針對委內瑞拉的情況進行探討，該國是全球最大的香蕉生產國之一：1- 與Fusarium枯萎病（FW）相關的植物衛生風險的影響，以及土壤對香蕉枯萎病（BW）發生率的影響；2- 在委內瑞拉阿拉瓜州和特魯希略州的一些商業農場中觀察到的生產力下降和土壤質量下降的趨勢。

本書呈現了一項在香蕉土壤特徵化中應用類別回歸（CATREG）的開創性研究，分析土壤形態變數，如質地、乾燥一致性、生物活性、對HCl的反應和結構類型，以特徵化健康香蕉的土壤生產力。它首次在委內瑞拉開展了針對由Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense（Foc）熱帶第4型（TR4）（同義Fusarium odoratissimum）引起的致命枯萎病的風險分析和氣候適宜性地圖。創新的機器學習技術被用來預測BW，以便未來的作物發展能夠更高效和可持續地進行。

作者簡介

Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos is hired as a researcher in the Biodiversity Management Research Group (GESBIO-UCO) and completed his Ph.D. Cum Laude in Agricultural, Food, Forestry Engineering, and Sustainable Rural Development from the Agrifood Campus of International Excellence (CeiA3) of the University of Cordoba (UCO) Spain (2022) through a scholarship from the Iberoamerican Postgraduate University Association (AUIP), his outstanding scientific activity earned him the UCO Extraordinary Ph.D. Award (2022). He is an Agricultural Engineer from the Central University of Venezuela (2009) and a master's degree in Environmental Technology from the International University of Andalusia, Spain (2015) through a Carolina Foundation scholarship. He is the author of journal articles, books, and chapters book, he also obtained various fellowships, accreditations, and recognitions, as well as participation in projects for the dissemination of agricultural science. He has carried out six research stays in international universities of Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, Colombia, Spain, and Panama.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Barlin Orlando Olivares Campos 被聘為生物多樣性管理研究小組 (GESBIO-UCO) 的研究員，並於2022年在西班牙科爾多瓦大學 (UCO) 的國際卓越農業食品林業工程與可持續農村發展學院 (CeiA3) 獲得優異的農業、食品、林業工程及可持續農村發展博士學位 (Cum Laude)，該學位是透過伊比利美洲研究生大學協會 (AUIP) 的獎學金取得。他卓越的科學活動使他獲得了UCO特別博士獎 (2022)。他於2009年畢業於委內瑞拉中央大學，獲得農業工程學位，並於2015年透過卡羅萊納基金會獎學金在西班牙安達盧西亞國際大學獲得環境技術碩士學位。他是期刊文章、書籍及書籍章節的作者，並獲得多項獎學金、認證及榮譽，參與農業科學推廣項目。他在阿根廷、智利、哥斯達黎加、哥倫比亞、西班牙和巴拿馬的國際大學進行了六次研究訪問。

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