Contingent Planning for Disaster Management

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Environment 3 Soil environment and its modification 4 Influence of climate on crops and contingency cropping 5 Crop growth and yield maximization 6 Crop ecology 7 Integrated nutrient supply system for sustainable crop production 8 Dry land agriculture 9 Green house culture 10 Land utilization and production pattern 11 Sustainable agriculture 12 Precision farming 13 Bioconservation of the environment 14 Natural disasters and its management 15 Contingent crop planning 16 Production technology 17 Modern concepts of agricultural research 18 Future guide line and conclusion References Subject Index This book entitled Contingent Planning for Disaster Management is written to serve a text reference guide book for the students of agriculture agricultural meteorology agronomy veterinary soil conservation agricultural engineering farm machinery and power and field practitioners The book fills the need for an up to date comprehensive text on increase the crop production by controlling the physical environment and more accurate forecasting for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels Forecasting may be of weather it may be the predictions of crop yield and quality or it may the estimation of livestock production and climatic hazards The control of the physical environment consists in preventing frosttemperature and humidity in growing windbreak adopting flood control measures controlling  livestock barns Contingent Crop Planning for different aberrant weather situations like flood drought cyclone hail storm land slide heat and cold waves epidemic out breaks and industrial hazards should be taken up in appropriate time to increase the crop production minimizing the loss or damage for adopting alternate methods or techniques for managementThis book will be of immense use in imparting knowledge on the basic principles and applied aspects of the agricultural meteorology natural disasters and their management and contingent Crop Planning for increasing crop production through the greenhouse and adopting modern scientific agricultural practices for students teachers scientists extension workers and professionals engaged in agricultural development 640 pp.…