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This book has comprehensive coverage and advances in agriculture for sustainable development and is expected to provide valuable sources for scholars and researchers, as well as serve as a guide book to the farmer's community and development agencies. The book is organized into 18 chapters, which include advances in production technologies of crops e.g. rice, wheat, barley, maize, pearl millet, pulses and oilseeds; sugarcane; medicinal and aromatic plants; vegetable crops; fodder crops; resource conservation technologies; management of degraded and sodic lands; soil biodiversity; farm mechanization, etc. The text is illustrated with tables, figures and photographs to bring out the significant findings. The book provides cutting-edge scientific knowledge as well as solid background information that are accessible for those who have a strong interest in agricultural research and development and want to learn more on the challenges facing the global agricultural production systems.
Note: T&F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This title is co-published with New India Publishing Agency.
List of contents
1. Advances in rice production technologies 2. Advances in wheat and barley production technologies 3. Advances in maize production technologies 4. Improved technologies for pearl millet cultivation 5. Advances in pulses production technologies 6. Advances in oilseeds production technologies 7. Advance production technologies of sugarcane 8. Advances in vegetable production technologies 9. Advances in medicinal and aromatic crop production technologies 10. Advances in forage crop production technologies 11. Restoration of degraded sodic lands through agroforestry practices 12. Advances in farm mechanization in India 13. Resource conservation techniques for sustaining crop production in rainfed foothills under changing climate 14. Advances in reclamation and management of salt affected soils for sustainable crop production 15. Physio-molecular mechanisms of drought tolerance in crop 16. Soil biodiversity and its management for sustainable agriculture 17. Impact of climate change in crop protection 18. Analysis of field experiments data using statistical calculator
About the author
A.S. Yadav, U.P. Council of Agricultural Research, Uttar Pradesh, India
Narendra Kumar, ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulses Research, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sanjay Arora, ICAR-Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Uttar Pradesh, India
D.S. Srivastava, Krishi Vigyan Kendra-II, Uttar Pradesh, India
Hemlata Pant, University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Summary
This book provides cutting edge scientific knowledge on the challenges facing the global agricultural production systems. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. This title is co-published with NIPA.
