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Indian Institute of Forest Management (भारतीय वन प्रबंधन संस्थान)
Indian Institute of Forest Management (भारतीय वन प्रबंधन संस्थान), IIFM Bhopal: autonomous MoEF&CC sectoral management institute founded 1982 with SIDA and IIM Ahmedabad help; MBA forestry and sustainability programs, NIRF Management rank 8 in 2016.
Intensive farming
Intensive farming (intensive agriculture, 集约农业) is cultivation using large amounts of labour and capital per unit of land for higher yields per hectare, relying on agrochemicals, machinery, and irrigation, with documented biodiversity, water, and soil costs.
Intercropping
Intercropping is the practice of growing two or more crop species simultaneously in one field, often producing more food per unit of land than monoculture.
Interflora
Interflora: international flower delivery network relaying orders to local florists; British unit founded 30 May 1923, linked to Fleurop (1927) and FTD (1910); global group formed 1946 in Copenhagen; UK unit owned by Teleflora UK Holdings, based in Sleaford.
International Kite Festival in Gujarat – Uttarayan
Uttarayan, Gujarat's International Kite Festival, is held January 14-15 for Makar Sankranti; Ahmedabad has hosted the international event since 1989, famous for fighter kites, manja string, and bird-safety concerns.
International Rice Research Institute
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), founded 1960 in Los Baños, Philippines, by the Ford and Rockefeller foundations; nonprofit rice-science institute whose 1966 semidwarf variety IR8, the 'miracle rice,' launched the Green Revolution in rice.
Irrigation scheduling
Irrigation scheduling is an agronomic method that decides when to irrigate a crop and how much water to apply, using soil, weather, or plant measurements.
Jackfruit
Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus), the largest tree-borne fruit, a Moraceae tropical crop from the Western Ghats; up to 25 kg, 3.7 million tons produced, seeds and flesh widely used.
Jadav Payeng
Jadav Payeng, the Forest Man of India, Molai, born 1959, Mising community of Majuli, Assam; planted Molai Forest (Molai Kathoni), about 550 hectares on a Brahmaputra sandbar since 1979; Padma Shri 2015; Molai Kathoni 2.0 fire December 2025.
Jamie Durie
Jamie Durie, born in 1970, is an Australian horticulturist, landscape designer, and television personality who hosted Backyard Blitz and The Block, and HGTV's The Outdoor Room.
Jethro Tull (agriculturist)
Jethro Tull (1674–1741) was an English agriculturist from Berkshire who developed a horse-drawn seed drill around 1701 and wrote Horse-Hoing Husbandry (1733), an emblematic work of the British Agricultural Revolution.
John D. Axtell
John D. Axtell (1934–2000) was an American plant geneticist and sorghum breeder at Purdue University, known for improving sorghum's nutritional quality and elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1982.
John Rolfe
John Rolfe (d. 1622), Jamestown colonist, first cultivated marketable Nicotiana tabacum tobacco in Virginia (1612) and married Pocahontas in April 1614, ending the First Anglo-Powhatan War; later colony secretary and councilor.
Johnny Appleseed
Johnny Appleseed was the nickname of John Chapman (1774-1845), a real frontier nurseryman who planted apple nurseries in Ohio and Indiana for cider apples, preached Swedenborgianism, and was mythologized after Haley's 1871 Harper's Weekly article.
Kaempferia galanga
Kaempferia galanga, sand ginger or kencur (沙姜), is a Zingiberaceae herb native from India to Indo-China; its camphor-scented rhizome is a Southeast Asian spice and traditional medicine with 97 identified compounds including ethyl p-methoxycinnamate.
Kees de Wit
Kees de Wit, full name Cornelis Teunis de Wit, was a Dutch theoretical crop scientist at Wageningen whose crop growth models, including ELCROS and WOFOST, are used worldwide; he won the 1984 Wolf Prize.
Kharif crop
Kharif crop: monsoon-season crop of the Indian subcontinent (also Pakistan, Bangladesh), sown with the south-west monsoon June-July and harvested in autumn; main crops rice, maize, cotton, soybean, groundnut, millets, pulses.
Kitchen garden
A kitchen garden, also called a potager or kailyaird, is a small garden near the house for growing vegetables, herbs, and fruit for home use rather than sale.
Landrace
Landrace: a farmer-managed, locally adapted crop variety or livestock breed, often genetically heterogeneous, shaped by traditional selection; valued for yield stability under low-input stress but outyielded by modern cultivars in optimal conditions.
Landscaping
Landscaping is the art of arranging vegetation, built features, and terrain to improve an outdoor area, covering site planning, grading, patios, fences, and plant selection.
Lasiodiplodia theobromae
Lasiodiplodia theobromae (syn. Botryodiplodia theobromae, teleomorph Botryosphaeria rhodina) is a Botryosphaeriaceae fungus, type species of Lasiodiplodia, infecting over 500 plant hosts and occasionally humans, with 134 reported secondary metabolites.
Lawn
Lawn: a cultivated, mown short-grass area not used for production, from medieval European gardens to English landscape parks and the American suburb; covers about 2% of US land area.
Layering
Layering (marcottage) is asexual plant propagation in which a stem roots while still attached to the parent, then is severed. Types include tip, simple, serpentine, mound, trench, and air layering for hard-to-root woody plants.
Leucaena leucocephala
Leucaena leucocephala, white popinac, ipil-ipil, or subabul, is a nitrogen-fixing tropical legume tree native to Mexico and Central America, grown for fodder and fuelwood but listed among the 100 worst invasive alien species; its toxic amino acid mimosine limits use as animal feed.
Line × tester analysis
Line × tester analysis is a plant breeding mating design that crosses inbred lines with testers to estimate combining ability and heterosis in hybrid crops.
List of countries by cocoa production
List of countries by cocoa production: ICCO 2024/25 season figures, world output 4.698 million tonnes, Côte d'Ivoire 1.681 Mt, Ghana 600 kt, Ecuador 570 kt, regional shares and price context.
List of countries by forest area
The list of countries by forest area ranks countries by FAO-reported forest cover, from Suriname at 94.4 percent in 2023 down to four countries with none.
List of essential oils
List of essential oils: lavender, tea tree, clove, oregano, thyme, citrus, caraway, patchouli, and others; distilled volatile plant mixtures used in food preservation, agriculture, cosmetics, and aromatherapy, with ISO definition, yields, chemotypes, and EU regulatory status.
List of festivals in Ghana
List of festivals in Ghana: annual celebrations of the Ga (Homowo), Akuapem (Odwira), Effutu (Aboakyer), Anlo Ewe (Hogbetsotso), Dagomba (Damba, Bugum) and others, with months, meanings and tourism role.
List of Mexican dishes
List of Mexican dishes: dishes of Mexico's cuisine, formed from prehispanic corn, chile, and bean cooking combined with European ingredients in colonial New Spain; includes mole poblano, tacos al pastor, chiles en nogada, pozole, cochinita pibil, and UNESCO-recognized traditional cuisine.