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

Based on the agronomy of the Maya and of other Mesoamerican peoples

French missionary and agronomist

was a French agronomist and balloonist.

was a French physician and agronomist

was a French agronomist and plant physiologist born in Pont-Saint-Esprit

was an American agronomist and botanist

was a French agronomist and chemist

was a German agronomist and botanist born in Pratau

was a Romanian-born Jewish agronomist, botanist, and political activist

was a Japanese agronomist, diplomat, political scientist, politician, and writer

Decaisne used applied research, most notably on the agronomy of the madder, the yam and the ramie.

was a Swedish agronomist

He is known for his writings involving agricultural botany and agricultural history.

was a Brazilian agronomist and pioneer in soil biology

was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist

was a Burkinabé farmer and agronomist

was an American agronomist who served as director of the agricultural experiment station at Michigan State University

was a prominent Armenian political figure, agronomist

was a Georgian agronomist and public activist

he obtained the post as agronomy teacher

was a German agronomist, geographer, farmer and politician

was a German agronomist and plant breeder

was an Israeli agronomist

was a Danish agronomist, mycologist and agriculturist

was a French chemist and agronomist

was a French banker, agriculturalist and politician

was a German botanist and agronomist

was a Baltic German agricultural scientist

was an Ecuadorian agronomist, geologist, farmer, researcher, educator, and mountaineer

was a Spanish medical doctor, politician, and agronomist

was an English agriculturist and author

was a French agronomist and botanist

was a Portuguese botanist and agronomist

was a prominent Florida agronomist

was a Russian-born Jewish American agronomist

he served as a professor of agronomy

was an Israeli agronomist

he was the head of the Department of Agronomy at the University of Illinois

In 1898, Georgeson was appointed Special Agent in Charge of the US agricultural experiment stations and sent to Alaska.

He served as a director of agriculture in the Madras Presidency and later served as the first economic botanist at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

he came to argue that grasslands were at the heart of successful agriculture

was a French pharmacist and agronomist, best remembered as a vocal promoter of the potato as a food source

Kazi M. Badruddoza (1 January 1927-30 August 2023) was a Bangladeshi agronomist who is credited with using Agricultural Genetics and Plant Pathology to increase agricultural production in Bangladesh

Neil Clifford Turner (born 13 March 1940) is an Australian agricultural scientist known for his contributions to agronomy and crop physiology

Aureliano Brandolini (August 8, 1927, September 5, 2008) was an Italian agronomist and development cooperation scholar

Henri Stehlé (November 30, 1909, February 19, 1983) was a French agronomist, botanist and ecologist specialized in tropical agriculture

Yang Xiandong (November 23, 1902 - October 20, 1998, Chinese: 杨显东), a native of Shinyang (now Xiantao), Hubei, was an agricultural scientist in the People's Republic of China

recognised its potential as a fodder plant

was the first professor of agronomy in the United States

He studied agronomy in Germany

was a Canadian agronomist best known for introducing crested wheatgrass to Canada

describing how lime and fertilizers affect the botanical composition of grasslands

he became the head of the Department of Agronomy

was an agronomist and erosion specialist

was a USDA agronomist who played an instrumental role in the development of corporate farming, particularly of cotton, in California

Principal Agronomist in the United States Department of Agriculture

published numerous papers on dryland farming, nitrate formation, soil moisture control, soil science, and agricultural practice

was an Australian scientist noted for dry farming research

was a Chinese agronomist who served as the first president of South China Agricultural College

Elazari-Volcani got a degree in Agronomy from the University of Königsberg

was a French agronomist, naturalist and explorer of Polish heritage

continued his research into the virtues of fallowing and the use of water-soluble phosphates as fertilizer

was a British agronomist, nutritionist, and physician

was a New York State botanist, an agronomist, and an expert in crop seed testing

known for his contributions to agronomy, plant pathology, and millipede taxonomy

Her research would go on to help the sugar industry in Hawaii by assisting farmers grow sugarcane efficiently.

Francis John Richards (1 October 1901-2 January 1965) was an English plant physiologist who specialized in quantitative studies on the mineral nutrition requirements of crops

He studied the main issues of soil cultivation for field crops in Georgia, as well as weeds and means of fighting them.

He returned to academia in 1986, joining Pennsylvania State University as professor and head of the Department of Agronomy.

Léopold Kocou Fakambi (21 October 1942-24 August 2021) was a Beninese agronomist, engineer, nutritionist, and academic.

was an Azerbaijani agronomist specializing in cottonseed

A horticultural Institute for ornamental plant species, not picked fruit, flowers (cut) and vegetables were established in 1949 and Vorster was the first director

Raymond Ward Arritt (September 19, 1957, November 14, 2018) was an American agronomist whose research focused on agricultural meteorology.

Harold F. Reetz Jr. (March 10, 1948, August 15, 2022) was an American agronomist.

His academic research and publications focused mainly on the forage systems as a source feeding of the livestock, on viticulture and viniculture, and also on the history of the Albanian agriculture.

Wang joined the Agronomy Department at Iowa State University in December 1995 as the director of the newly established Plant Transformation Facility.

E. Travis York Jr. (July 4, 1922, April 15, 2011) was an American agronomist, professor, university administrator, agricultural extension administrator, and U.S. presidential adviser.

As an agricultural scientist, he developed principles for the classification of cultivated plants, and also provided a scientific basis towards the establishment and preservation of large collections of cultivated plants (gene banks).

He studied agronomy at the University of Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1926 with a thesis on crop production.

Keeney became a professor of agronomy, and stayed on as faculty member in soils and water chemistry for more than 20 years.

Specifically, she has studied the Three Sisters method of growing corn, beans, and squash together to enhance productivity and soil fertility.

James Eugene "Jim" Specht (1945, February 13, 2026) was an American agronomist specializing in soybean genetics, genomics, physiology, and the agronomics of soybean response to water.

was a Russian agronomist, biologist, historian and dissident

Martínez joined the agronomy faculty at the University of Huamanga

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.

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.