Principles and Practices of Organic Farming

Contents 1 Introduction 2 Organic farming 3 Potentials and strategies of organic farming 4 Green revolution and development of organic farming 5 Sources of plant nutrients 6 Soil fertility and productivity 7 Integrated nutrient supply system for sustainable crop production 8 Soil organic matter 9 Agro-forestry and social forestry 10 Management of pasture lands in the arid regions 11 Organic manures as nutrient carriers 12 Biofertilizers 13 Sustainable agriculture 14 Organic farming in India and abroad 15 Farming systems 16 Integrated farming systems IFS under varying situation 17 Waste land management 18 Crop residue management 19 Production technology 20 Production and package of practices 21 Vermiculture biotechnology 22 Precision nutrient management and precision farming 23 Weed and pest management in organic farming 24 Modern concepts of agricultural research 25 Future guideline and conclusion References Subject indexThis book entitled Principles and Practices of Organic Farming is written to serve a text book of Agronomy cum referenceguide book for the students of agriculture veterinary soil conservation and field practitioners The book fills the need for an up to date comprehensive text on organic farming for sustainable agriculture under varying situations and covers comprehensively the content of the courses of soil fertility management on crop production organic farming for sustainable agriculture and farming systems in agronomy offered for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels of agricultural universities in the country This book will be of immense use in imparting knowledge on the basic principles of soil fertility management on crop production and applied aspects of integrated farming systems for students teachers scientists extension workers and professionals engage din agricultural developmentThis book contains 25 chapters Each chapter brief comprehensive full fledged with respect to technical information It is hoped that the book will serve as a textbook as well as a good reference source for those interested in organic agriculture 594 pp.…