Modern Agricultural Technology: A Step Towards Rural Self-Reliance

Contents: 1. Development of a Scale to Measure Attitude of Members Towards Farmer Producers Organisations of Pune District from Maharashtra/Swati Khandave and M. R. Prajapati. 2. Effect of Carfentrazone Ethyl on Broad Leaved Weed Flora and Productivity of Spring Wheat/Rahul Kumar Gupta, Ruchi Bharti and Kalipada Pramanik. 3. Effect of Inorganic and Organic Amendments on Yield and Biological Parameters of Rapeseed (Brassica Campestris L. Var. Yellow Sarson) Grown in a Typic Haplaquept Soil/Tapas Kumar Halder, Ajit Kumar Dolui and Dipankar Saha. 4. e-Marketing in Agriculture: An Emerging Support to Indian Farmers/Rajeeb Kumar Behera, Sudeepta Pattanayak, Ashis Ranjan Udgata and Chinmayee Behera. 5. Locust Outbreak: An Impending Challenge in Recent Agriculture/Subhajit Pal, Swarnali Bhattacharya and Digvijay Singh. 6. Agricultural Intensification through Crop Diversity and Land Configuration for Maximizing Productivity, Profitability: Needs and Approaches/R. Saha, Debarati Datta, S. Sarkar and B. Majumdar. 7. Application of Nanotechnology Towards Self-reliance of Farming Community in India/Sarathi Saha, Saon Banerjee, Asis Mukherjee and Saroni Biswas. 8. Nanotechnology: A New Frontier in Agricultural Development/Mohammed Nisab C.P. and Mamta Sahu. 9. Decision Support Tools for Site-Specific Nutrient Management/Ayesha Fatima and Basant Kumar. 10. Crop Residue Burning: Modern Avenues and Present Scenario/Sujay Kumar Paul, Animesh Chowdhury, Antara Chaudhury and Subhajit Pal. 11. Plant Genetic Resources: A Heritage for Crop Improvement/Digvijay Singh, Satyendra, Swapnil, Subhajit Pal and Anuradha Sinha. 12. Plant Germplasm Conservation and its Strategies/Swapnil, Kumari Rashmi, Digvijay Singh, Subhajit Pal and Anuradha Sinha. 13. Small Seeded Aromatic Indigenous Genotypes used as High Value Rice/Sanjoy Kumar Bordolui, Pranab Chattopadhyay, Raju Das and Rajib Lochan Moharana. 14. A Study of Waste Management for different Disposals Materials/Amlan Mahata, Chiranjit Singha and Kishore Chandra Swain. 15. Scope of Village Library for Rural Self Reliance/Rutuparna Biswal. 16. Precision Farming: A Concept of Accuracy in Modern Agricultural System/Sourav Roy and Chandan Karak. 17. A Conceptual Note on Dairy Entrepreneurship Development/Ravi Kumar Gupta, Anindita Saha and Ankur Gupta. 18. Effect of Plant Growth Regulators on Growth and Development of Plant: A Review/Reetanjali Meher and Basabadatta Sahu. 19. Lesson Learnt for Recovering Rural Agriculture during Pandemic/Kishore Chandra Swain. 20. Socio-Economic Welfare Schemes on Tribal Women of India/B. Mishra, S. Das and Sayan Sagnika Mohapatra. 21. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: Great Revolutionary of Women Empowerment and Emancipation/Chaitaly Banerjee and Subhankar Ghosh. 22. Dr. B.R. Ambedkar: As a Founder of Ideal Society/Sanchita Hazra. The book is an attempt to bring the modern technology to the farmers and villagers to have self-reliance. The edited book has twenty two chapters, contributed by authors from different part of the country, having expertise in agriculture and rural technology suitable for current scenario. The book will have readers from student community, prospective farmers, researchers and agricultural professionals. Most of chapters are very rich in information, discussing new technologies and agricultural practices in simple language. The book will contribute immensely to the society in the future.