Insight Agriculture (Soil, Crops & Food For The Future)
Contents: 1.Agriculture and History 2.Tillage 3.Seed and Sowing 4.Crop and Factors Affecting Crop Production 5.Soil and Fertility Management 6.Weeds Management 7.Water and Irrigation 8.Farming System 9.Role of Insects in Agriculture 10.Biotechnology and Crop Production 11.Exploring the Hidden Linkages between Biotechnology and Natural Resource Conservation and Management References.
The Agri-food sector has a major role to play in ensuring food security and economic development especially for development countries. It is responsible for producing food that is nutrition and affordable to a growing world population and for generating income and employment for a large number of people involved along the Agri-food chain. Inclusive agricultural growth and development relies to a great extent on how successfully knowledge is generated and applied and indeed knowledge intensiveness has featured prominently in most strategies to promote agriculture development. The purpose of this book is to provide a fusion of our empirical studies, concerned with diverse aspect of agriculture development for undergraduate and post-graduate students across the different corners of the country. The book consists of emerging and basic disciplines with voluminous and diverse issues in agriculture with converging view of the emerging agenda for an agriculture innovation systems in coming time. Further these collection will provide a much needed platform to discuss the emerging issues and problem in agriculture and will come out with a well-defined strategy to overcome the challenges of food, environment and livelihood security. This book is therefore an extremely valuable contribution towards agriculture sciences with its roots in science disciplines. May this book be useful as a small building block in meeting the challenges that our agriculture and food system faces.
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Sonia Goel