Agricultural Technology for Sustaining Rural Growth

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Strategic framework for creating sustainable food and nutrition security/Reeta Mishra, Y.D. Mishra, Sangeeta Dwivedi and P.P. Singh. 2. Integreated farming system: issue, strategy and scope/L.C. Verma, Shrikant B. Katole, S.K. Yadav, S.K. Rawat and S.K. Sachan. 3. Integrated farming system: sustainable entrepreneurial avenue for rural farming community/S. Biswas and A. Goswami. 4. Crop diversification for sustainable production system/Vishram Ram, Dinesh Sah and A.K. Singh. 5. Contingency crop planning for sustainable agriculture/Narednra Kumawat, R.S. Yadav, Rakesh Kumar and Pawan Kumar Panwar. 6. Climate smart agriculture/Ambreesh Singh Yadav and Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay. 7. Biotechnological approaches for heat and drought tolerance/Amit Kumar, R.S. Sengar, Raj Singi and Rekha Dixit. 8. Soil health card and fertilizer recommendation/Jugul Kishor Tiwari and Hanumant Singh Tomar. 9. Role of plant growth promoting rhizobacteria in the management of viral diseases of plants/N.K. Sharma, S.K. Singh, S.P. Singh, Adesh Kumar, D. Srivastava and D. Kumar. 10. Soil solarization : Importance and techniques for production management/Ashwini Singh, Vinaya Kumar Singh, U.S. Tiwari and B.N. Tripathi. 11. Resource conservation through mechanization in agriculture/Sarvesh Kumar and Devendra Singh. 12. Remediation of arsenic by nutrient management for agriculture sustainability/Prakash Chandra Gupta. 13. Role of beneficial microorganism in sustainable agriculture/Kumari Punam Pallavi and Prakash Chandra Gupta. 14. Sustainability in agriculture through microbial inoculants/R. Nayak, R.K. Singh, S.K. Yadav and L.C. Verma. 15. Management of salt affected soils/Shashi Kant Yadav, Satish Kumar Tomar, Lal Chandra Verma and Priya. Agriculture is the largest private enterprises of India in which more than 81 percent farmers belong to small and marginal categories. Majority of them requires need based, location specific technologies for solving their farm problems and increasing farm productivity and income. In this line many steps are taken by several organization(s) as individually and or jointly. To promoting such effort a small step is taken by authors in the form of innovative book. This book Agricultural Technology for Sustaining Rural Growth provides a comprehensive applied technological knowledge on various aspects of agriculture and rural development. The book has been written to serve as advance knowledge of innovative technology for students, teachers, researchers, extensional personnel and who are engaged in the development of agriculture and rural-upliftment at various levels under public and private system.…