Integrated Farming Systems and Agricultural Sustainability

authored by: A Zaman
ISBN: 9789387973725 | Binding: Paperback | Pages: 336 | Language: English | Year of Publishing: 2019
Length: 152 mm | Breadth: 24.6 mm | Height: 229 mm | Imprint: NIPA | Weight: 470 GMS
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The book is organized into sixteen chapters. A brief description of each of the chapters follows: Chapter 1 identifies the concept of importance and definition as basic requirement to know the challenges in the management of information security in the new millennium; Chapter 2 identifies the types of farming system and factors affecting farming system; Chapter 3 envisages sustainable agriculture, its problems and its impact in cropping system; Chapter 4 takes historical background of agriculture, its changing scenario and its resilience over the years. Chapter 5 delineated sustainable agriculture, its importance and its impact in cropping system; Chapter 6 describes the agro-climatic and agro-ecological zones that need for model of integrated farming system to be developed as a policy perspective to ensure the crop cultivation the highest level of protection against all sorts of threats. Chapter 7 takes history of agriculture, its changing scenario and its resilience over the years. Chapter 8 reviews the rejuvenation, modernization and mechanization of agriculture, its present bottlenecks on ethical elements of security such that trust could be promoted to outburst the explosive population; Chapter 9 reviews the information on soil resource in the context of problematic security threat; Chapter 10 reviews issues on external input based sustainable agriculture surrounding low land utilization as existing resource mobilization and utilization. Chapter 11 presents the importance of organic farming well as organic agriculture to get the best results in sustainable agriculture; Chapter 12 addresses the issue of water management and planning, with particular reference to irrigation management and judicious water application in crop cultivation. Chapter 13 presents gaps and problems in each of the current approaches in rainfed agriculture, rainwater harvesting as well as rainwater management in growing crops in best possible manner; Chapter 14 discusses management of lowland areas towards sustainable agriculture; Chapter 15 refers the land degradation and land treatments in the way of effective utilization of land resources through tillage, conservational tillage and other suitable measures; and Chapter 16 concludes the present principle of remedies, the economic equity, social security along the future task and presents pragmatic, formal, informal and technical principles necessary for managing food security in the new millennium.

1. Integrated Farming System, its Scope and Importance, 2. Types of Farming System and , Factors Affecting Types of Farming, 3.Sustainable Agriculture, Problem and its Impacts on Agriculture.4  Historical Background and Components of Integrated Farming System, 5.Sustainable Agriculture and Its Importance, 6. Agro-climatic Zones and  Agro-Ecological Regions,7. History of Agriculture and Its Changing Scenario,8. Mechanization and Modernization of Agriculture, 9. Soil Health Maintenance and Management,10. External Input based Agricultural Techniques for Sustainability,11Water and Irrigation Management,12. Rainfed Agriculture and its Management,13.Organic Agriculture and Organic Farming,14.Management of Lowland Rainfed Areas,15. Conservational Land Treatments,16. Social Security, Economic Equity and Task Ahead

 
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