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Agricultural Sustainability is a combination of technologies and implementation processes that are used to manage information-related with maintenance of equilibrium condition in the scenario of productivity level in the field of agriculture. Sustainable agriculture is not just about food security, the protection of crops and its cultivation or while it is being processed; it is also about the protection of environment with economic equity and profitability. This is a composite field involving agricultural science, engineering, database and soil-based crop management, user training, and policy issues. A common objective of work in this field is to protect the environment and defend degeneration systems/ensuring resource availability, its integrity, authentication and confidentiality so that the right action can be accessed with the right information and direction at the right time. The book contains 33 chapters pertaining to sections on (i) water resource management (ii) irrigation water management (iii) soil resource management (iv) sustainability in agriculture and (v) crop management and productivity with the content contributed/eminent researchers throughout the world. The book will come as an important contribution to the latest agricultural technologies in bridging up the gap of scientific information to the researchers and policy makers in different relevant field of specialization.

Contents: Section I: Water Resource Management 1. Watershed management technologies in mitigating water crisis and sustaining agricultural productivity/A. Zaman. 2. Rural livelihoods improvement through common property water resource management/Prabhakar Nanda. 3. Water scarcity and its possible mitigation to meet future challenges for food production/Sukla Das. 4. Integrated water resources management for agricultural sustainability and food security/A. Zaman. 5. Multiple coping strategies for water crisis: a review/Rupsha Roy. 6. Groundwater management for agricultural development in arsenic infested areas - a case study/A. Gayen, A. Zaman and G. Sen. Section II: Irrigation Water Management. 7. Present global, national perspective and scenario of irrigation water management/Ashwani Kumar. 8. Gravity drip fertigation on crop, water productivity nutrient use efficiency and economics towards livelihood security in Bengal Basin/Sanmay Kumar Patra. 9. Bio-drainage for improving agricultural productivity in low lying areas/Sagar Maitra and A. Zaman. 10. Bio-remediation of arsenic problem for sustainable agriculture/A. Zaman and Md. Hedayetullah. Section III: Soil Resource Management. 11. Soil health: an imperative for efficient nutrient management for sustainable crop production/Dilip Kumar Das. 12. Processes and mineralogy of arsenic in soils: an overview/Siddhartha S. Mukhopadhyay. 13. Management of acid soils for agricultural sustainability in Eastern India/A. Zaman and Parveen Zaman. Section IV: Sustainability in agriculture. 14. Need based sustainable agricultural production/Bishnu Prasad Mishra, Banashri Rath and Aamlan Saswat Mishra. 15. Combatting climate change by organic agriculture: mitigation and adaptation options for sustaining food security/Sagar Maitra, Tanuj Kumar Mandal, Tanmoy Shankar and A. Zaman. 16. Role of ITKs in sustainable development of innovative agriculture/A. Zaman and Sagar Maitra. 17. Role of geomorphological features to determine sustainable flood management strategies in Bhagirathi- Padma River Bank areas/A. Gayen and A. Zaman. 18. Agricultural sustainability for crop production/A. Zaman and Md. Hedayetullah. 19. Women empowerment, SHGs and social organization’s credo: looking lights from the tribal villages of East Singhbhum/Atanu Deb and Arunava Sengupta. 20. Biological drainage system for agricultural sustainability under salinity and lowland conditions/A. Zaman and Sagar Maitra. 21. Natural calamities, typical ecosystems and environmental crisis of Sundarbans Areas/Anadi Gayen. 22. Watershed management for agricultural sustainability/A. Zaman, Md. Hedayetullah and Parveen Zaman. 23. Lowland ecosystem management in agricultural sustainability/A. Zaman and Parveen Zaman. Section V: Crop Management and Productivity. 24. A review on approaches of phyto-extracts on plant disease management/Diganggana Talukdar, Utpal Dey, Dipika Sarmah and Sudip Das. 25. Strategies for cultivation of chickpea in the rice fallows under residual soil moisture/Md. Hedayetullah, Parveen Zaman and Raghunath Sadhukhan. 26. Evaluation of jute varieties (corchorus capsularis l) under different fertilizer management schedules in Indo-gangetic plains/Parveen Zaman. 27. Influence of Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) on the availability of nutrients in soil in relation to yield and nutrition of rape (Brassica campestris L.)/Prasenjit Adhikary, Soumya Sundar Tewary, S.K. Sadikur Rahaman Priyanka Naskar and D.K. Das. 28. Performance of Kharif potato Cv. Kufri Pukhraj grown through organic farming in Chhota Nagpur Plateau/Subhasis Mondal and Avijit Kr. Dutta. 29. System of rice intensification: reducing cost of cultivation and increasing productivity of rice/Manik Lal Takudar, A. Zaman and Partha Roychudhry. 30. Pusa Hydrogel: a superabsorbent for soil moisture conservation to enhance crop productivity/Jnana Bharati Palai, Sagar Maitra and A. Zaman. 31. Changes in the availability of some selected nutrients vis-a-vis some soil properties in relation to yield of rape (Brassica campestris L.)/Soumya Sundar Tewary, Prasenjit Adhikary, Masud Alam Priyanka Naskar and D. K. Das. 32. Aerobic rice cultivation on adoption of water saving technologies during summer season under conservation agriculture/A. Zaman and Gangarani Th. 33. Influence of Sasyagavya on growth, yield and quality attributes of cabbage and bio-chemical properties of soils of the experimental site/Souvik Chatterjee, Avijit Kumar Dutta, Swami Bhaveshananda and Pritom Das.