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Dry land plays an important role in India's food security. Sixty eight per cent of the cultivated area in Indian agriculture comes under dry land, which contributes about 44 per cent of the total food production.  Dry land horticulture not only provides higher income to the farmers, but also provides constant returns and livelihood security to the rural peoples. The dry land farming in India is looking for new possibility because the traditional crops are inadequate to meet the new situations. By selecting the right crop and the latest improved varieties, recent production technologies, dry lands can grow more food. There is a much scope of spreading out of horticultural crops in dry land areas and it has immense potential for changing scenario of horticulture of the country. Vast land resource, surplus family labors, availability of canal irrigation water, plenty of solar and wind energy, etc. are the strength in the region for promote horticultural crops. Further, low incidence of diseases/insects in the region provides good scope for production of quality produce. 
There is hardy available any edited/text book which covers scientific cultivation and management of dry land horticultural crops. The present edited book is outcomes of the lectures contributed by the resource persons of most prestigious ICAR sponsored winter school on “Hi-tech approaches for production and value addition of horticultural crops in arid and semi arid regions” organized at Directorate of Human Resources Development,  SKRAU,  Bikaner. The book covers topics viz., status and scope of dry land, effective soil management, optimization of nutrients management, raising of quality planting materials, cultivation practices of ber, aonla, pomegranate, date palm, guava, mandarin, bael, jamun, custad apple, ramphal,  phalsa,  lasoda, wood apple,  kair,  pilu,  karonda, aloe vera, opuntia and tuber crops, insect, pest and diseases management, post harvest and value addition of dry land fruits. 

Contents: 1. Status and Scope of Dry Land Horticulture/R. S. Rathore, P. S. Chauhan and Praveen K. Singh. 2. Problematic Soils and their Management in Dry Land Areas/Yogesh Sharma. 3. Management of Sandy Soils in Dry Land Areas/S. R. Yadav and Asha Sherawat. 4. Nutrients Optimization in Arid Horticultural Crops/B. D. Sharma. 5. Raising of Quality Planting Material of Dry Land Crops/D. K. Sarolia and P. L. Saroj. 6. Ber Cultivation Technology/Akath Singh and P. R. Meghwal. 7. Aonla Cultivation Technology/A. K. Singh, Sanjay Singh, P. L. Saroj, D. S. Mishra and Vikas Yadav. 8. Pomegranate Cultivation Technology/R. Kumar, J. S. Gora, V. R. Reddy, S and M. K. Berwal. 9. Date Palm Cultivation Technology/Atul Chandra. 10. Citrus Crops Cultivation Technology/Jitendra Singh, Kalpana Choudhary and Nirmal Kumar Meena. 11. Guava Cultivation Technology/D. K Sarolia, Vijay Rakesh Reddy S., Ramkesh Meena and Lokesh Kumar. 12. Bael Cultivation Technology/A. K. Singh, Sanjay Singh, P. L. Saroj, Vikas Yadav and Raj Kumar. 13. Jamun Cultivation Technology/Raj Kumar, Shakti Khajuria, A. K. Rai and B. S. Khadda. 14. Custard Apple Cultivation Technology/R. S. Rathore, Ms. Priyanka Kumawat and Ms. Sheetal Rawat. 15. Ramphal Cultivation Technology/R. S. Rathore, Anita Soni and Sheetal Rawat. 16. Cordia Cultivation Technology/P. K. Yadav, Jagan Singh Gora and Kumari Lata. 17. Kinnow Mandarin Cultivation Technology/M. K. Kaul.18. Wood apple Cultivation Technology/R. S. Rathore, P. S. Chauhan and B. D. S. Nathawat. 19. Kair Cultivation Technology/R. S. Rathore, Ms. Priyanka Kumawat and Tulsi Ram. 20. Pilu Cultivation Technology/R. S. Rathore and P. S. Chauhan. 21. Aloe vera Cultivation Technology/Praveen K Singh and Shiv Shankar Singh. 22. Tuber Crops Cultivation in Dry Land Areas/MK Jatav, PL Saroj, Roop Chand Balai and Ramyashree DGS. 23. Flowering Plants for Dry Land Areas/L. N. Mahawer. 24. Role of KVKs for Farmer’s Income through Horticultural Interventions in Dry Land/Atul Chandra. 25. Insects and Pests Management in Dry Land/V. S. Acharya and Vimal Singh Rajput. 26. Diseases Management in Dry Land Horticultural Crops/Narendra Singh. 27. Processing and Value Addition of Arid Fruits/Mamta Singh.