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Cutting Edge Technology for Agricultural Sustainability

Cutting Edge Technology for Agricultural Sustainability

$112.00
Author:A. Zaman and Sagar Maitra
ISBN 13:9789387973282
Binding:Hardbound
Language:English
Year:2019
Subject:Botanical Science/Agronomy

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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.