Agronomy

Agronomy is the sub-discipline of plant agriculture focused on the science and technology of crop production and soil management as it pertains to field crops in the context of industrial agriculture and cultivation with intensive farming methods.

the increase and dissemination of knowledge concerning soils, crops, and the conditions affecting them.

CA facilitates good agronomy, such as timely operations, and improves overall land husbandry for rainfed and irrigated production.

In agriculture, monoculture is the practice of growing one crop species in a field at a time.

effects of atmospheric pollutants, including ozone and carbon dioxide, on the productivity of selected major crops such as corn and soybeans

American botanist and agriculturalist

production of the potato and its resistance to disease

directly responsible for the introduction of cocoa crops to Gold Coast

new regimes of crop rotation

expert on wheat farming

recorded harvests such as 7.5 to 8.3 tonnes of Pusa Basmati 1 rice per hectare

agriculture researcher in Bangladesh who specializes in rice

researcher at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute

new crop rotations raised production

Politician · Diplomat · Civil servant · Agronomist · Farmer · Lobbyist

William James Farrer (3 April 1845-16 April 1906) was a leading English Australian agronomist and plant breeder.

Nazareno Strampelli (May 29, 1866, in Castelraimondo, Italy, January 23, 1942) was an Italian agronomist and plant breeder.

Edward Murray East (October 4, 1879, November 9, 1938) was an American plant geneticist, botanist, agronomist and eugenicist.

Yuan Longping (Chinese: 袁隆平; pinyin: Yuán Lóngpíng; September 7, 1930, May 22, 2021) was a Chinese agronomist and inventor.

Simon Nanne Groot (25 October 1934-6 July 2025) was a Dutch agronomist whose work focused on producing disease resistant crops and improving seed growth and development.

Gurdev Singh Khush (born August 22, 1935) is an agronomist and geneticist who, along with mentor Henry Beachell, received the 1996 World Food Prize for his achievements in enlarging and improving the global supply of rice during a time of exponential population growth.

Benjamin Peary Pal or B. P. Pal FRS (26 May 1906-14 September 1989) was an Indian plant breeder and agronomist who served as a director of the Indian Agricultural Research Institute in Delhi and as the first Director General of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research.

Daniel Hillel (Hebrew: דניאל הלל; 13 September 1930-9 March 2021) was an Israeli-American agronomist, researcher and author.

Cynthia E. Rosenzweig (née Ropes) (born c. 1958) is an American agronomist and climatologist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, located at Columbia University, "who helped pioneer the study of climate change and agriculture." She is an adjunct senior research scientist at the Columbia Climate School and has over 300 publications, over 80 peer-reviewed articles, has authored or edited eight books.

Mariangela Hungria da Cunha (born 6 February 1958) is a Brazilian agronomist and microbiologist noted for pioneering work on biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) and the use of beneficial soil bacteria as microbial inoculants for tropical crops.

José Graziano da Silva (born November 17, 1949) is a Brazilian American agronomist and writer.

Alysson Paolinelli (10 July 1936-29 June 2023) was a Brazilian agronomic engineer and public official who received the 2006 World Food Prize for his role in transforming the Cerrado into productive cropland.

Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (Russian: Трофим Денисович Лысенко; Ukrainian: Троxим Денисович Лисенко, romanized: Trokhym Denysovych Lysenko, IPA: [troˈxɪm deˈnɪsowɪtʃ lɪˈsɛnko]; 29 September [O.S. 17 September] 1898-20 November 1976) was a Soviet agronomist.

Wang Zhen (simplified Chinese: 王祯; traditional Chinese: 王禎; pinyin: Wáng Zhēn; Wade-Giles: Wang Chen, fl. 1290-1333) was a Chinese agronomist, inventor, mechanical engineer, politician, and writer of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368).

Paul Panda Farnana M'Fumu (1888-12 May 1930) was a Congolese agronomist and expatriate who lived in Europe in the first decades of the 1900s.

William Wolfskill (1798-1866) was an American-Mexican pioneer, cowboy, and agronomist in Los Angeles, California beginning in the 1830s.

Pierre Joseph Lardinois (13 August 1924-16 July 1987) was a Dutch politician and diplomat of the Catholic People's Party (KVP) and agronomist.

Anne Vondeling (2 March 1916-22 November 1979) was a Dutch politician of the Labour Party (PvdA) and agronomist.

Rao Bahadur Sir Tiruvadi Sambasiva Iyer Venkataraman CIE, FNI, FASc (15 June 1884-18 January 1963) was an Indian botanist, agronomist and plant geneticist who specialised in the study and hybridisation of sugarcane.

John "Jack" Edward Rechcigl (born February 27, 1960) is an American agronomist and environmental scientist.

Gerardus Johannes Maria "Gerrit" Braks (23 May 1933-12 July 2017) was a Dutch politician of the defunct Catholic People's Party (KVP) and later the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) party and agronomist.

Oleksiy Vasylovych Prylipka (Ukrainian: Олексій Васильович Приліпка; 9 March 1944, August 2024) was a Ukrainian agronomist and political scientist who earned the title of Hero of Ukraine in 2002.

Erhard Frederiksen (7 January 1843-12 October 1903) was a Danish agronomist and sugar manufacturer.

Ranbir Singh Kanwar (20 December 1930-20 December 2005) was an eminent plant breeder and agronomist who helped usher in the green revolution in India (http://www.sugarcaneindia.com/r_s_kanwar.html).

Chen Hsi-huang (Chinese: 陳希煌; born 18 December 1935) is a Taiwanese economist and agronomist who served as Minister of Agriculture from 2000 to 2002.

José Marrero Torrado (4 March 1910 Utuado, Puerto Rico, 13 April 2007, San Juan, Puerto Rico) was a Puerto Rican agronomist and researcher.

Sir Charles Edward Saunders, (February 2, 1867, July 25, 1937) was a Canadian agronomist.

Charles Ambrose Zavitz (1863-1942) was a Canadian agronomist.

Joseph-Adélard Godbout (September 24, 1892, September 18, 1956) was a Canadian agronomist and politician.

Armando Samper Gnecco (9 April 1920-14 September 2010) was a Colombian agronomist and engineer.

Charles Allen Black (January 22, 1916, July 6, 2002) was an agronomist at Iowa State College, specializing in soil fertility and phosphorus.

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI) is a farming methodology that aims to increase the yield of rice while using fewer resources and reducing environmental impacts.

Timothy Olurotimi Tayo is a Nigerian agricultural scientist and professor of agronomy at the Osun State University.

She was the former Chair of the International Nitrogen Initiative and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and American Society of Agronomists.

He served as the chair of the University of Nebraska Department of Agronomy for 22 years from 1930 to 1952.

He went to work for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1913 and became the chief agronomist of the United Fruit Company in 1925.

Friedrich J. Haberlandt (1826-1878) was a professor of agriculture at the Hochschule fuer Bodenkultur (Royal College of Agriculture) in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He is best known for his book Die Sojabohne (The Soybean, 1878), which introduced soybean cultivation to Western and Central Europe

Junius George Groves (April 12, 1859, August 17, 1967) was an American farmer and entrepreneur remembered as one of the wealthiest black Americans of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Known as the "Potato King of the World" by 1902, Groves optimized potato growth methods, out-producing anyone else in the world to that point.