Intensive Cropping Efficient Use of Water Nutrients and Tillage

S S Prihar; P R Gajri; D K Benbi and V K Arora

ISBN 10: 8181890035 / ISBN 13: 9788181890030

Published by International Book Dist, 2003

About this Item

Contents: Preface. Introduction. 1. Intensive cropping and related concerns. 2. Efficient input use: terminology and requisites. 3. Toward efficient water use. 4. Toward efficient nutrient use. 5. Toward efficient use of energy in tillage. 6. Toward sustainability of high-production systems. 7. Modeling for efficient input use. References. Index. " Intensive Cropping combines the basic and applied aspects of soil water, nutrients, and energy management to help you optimize your crop yields and maximize the use of these inputs in intensively farmed regions. In Intensive Cropping, you will explore the need for extreme farming and related concerns and concepts, including: vCreating methods to conserve water by reducing runoff deep seepage, and evaporation losses v Supplementing irrigation with surface and groundwater vUnderstanding the process of water uptake and the effects on root dynamics and water use v Reducing gaseous, leaching, and erosion losses in your fields vUsing combinations of organic manures, crop residues, chemical fertilizers, and biofertilizers for soil maintenance vImplementing conventional and emerging tillage systems, such as conservation tillage for improving soil quality vExamining case studies of contrasting edaphic requirements of rice-wheat systems." No. 32109 264 pp.

Seller Inventory # 48631

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intensive Cropping Efficient Use of Water Nutrients and Tillage
• Publisher: International Book Dist
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 8181890035
• ISBN 13: 9788181890030
• Binding: Hardbound
• Condition: Reprint

About this title

Synopsis

Explore new concepts for maximizing crop yields!Intensive Efficient Use of Water, Nutrients, and Tillage is a compilation of current information on the interdependence of and synergies among water, nutrients, and energy in regard to increasing crop performance. This book explains the need for intensive cropping and explores the technologies and practices necessary for proper management of water, nutrients, and energy. With Intensive Cropping you will learn how to improve the quantity of the world's most important crops using methods that will minimize harm to the environment.This essential guide is a state-of-the-art account of the concepts and practices concerning the integrated use of water, nutrients, and energy in intensive cropping. Intensive Cropping combines basic and applied aspects of soil-water, nutrients, and energy management to help you optimize your crop yields and maximize the efficiency of intensively farmed regions. In Intensive Cropping, you will explore the need for extreme farming and related concerns and concepts, reducing runoff, deep seepage, and evaporation losses supplementing irrigation with surface and ground water understanding the process of water uptake and its effects on root dynamics and water use reducing leaching, erosion, and gasseus losses in your fields using combinations of organic manures, crop residues, chemical fertilizers, and biofertilizers for soil maintenance implementing conventional and emerging tillage systems, such as conservation tillage for improving soil quality examining case studies of contrasting edaphic requirements of rice-wheat systems Intensive Cropping brings you up-to-date on recent advances in the field, supported by relevant experimental observations on environmentally safe and effective ways to increase crop performance. By examining this new research on increasing crop production, you will be able to successfully increase crop yields in various climates and support the growing global demand for such resources.