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CONTENTS:- 1. Concept of Crop Diversification in Agriculture. 2. Productive agriculture; Biological diversity; Biological resources; Medicinal resources; Medicinal plant resources; Plant genetic resources; Tropical forest resources; Role of Watersheds in productive agriculture; Water resources management. 3. Commercial horticulture; Vegetables; Fruits; Floriculture; Mushrooms; References. 4. Cropping patterns or systems; Cropping systems and nutrient management; References. 5. Forests and forestry; Shifting Cultivation; Ecological Culture with people's participation; Arabari Model for Forest management; Agroforestry; Social Forestry; Community forestry; Urban forestry; Silviculture; Wildlife. 6. Organic farming and application of biotechnology in agriculture: Organic farming; Application of biotechnology in agriculture; Systems agriculture; References. 7. Alternate or diversified agriculture; Systems agriculture in detail-The desirable perspectives; Food Insecurity of rural India; Livestock and dairying, sheep and goat, Poultry and aquaculture scenario in India; Other income generating programmes; Some promosing income generating diversified agriculture; References. 8. Balanced fertililsation; Fertiliser use and options for crop diversification; Management of Micronutrients in crop production; Technologies for drought prone rainfed areas; Role of plant nutrients in rainfed / Drought prone Agriculture; Nutrient management in forage; Balanced fertilisers in Aquaculture; References. 9. Research for meeting the challenges ahead; Agriculture in the new millennium; Horticulture export scenario and future development; Agricultural sustainability in the 21st century. |
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Diversification in Agriculture is a paradigm shift from one crop to another bringing out a desirable change in the existing cropping pattern towards more balanced cropping system to meet ever increasing demand for cereals, pulses, oilseeds, fibres, fodder and grasses, horticultural crops and fuel, etc. fro the burgeoning population. It aims to improving soil health and agro-ecosystem with socio-economic improvement of the people. It takes into account of the economic returns from different crops and other allied farming for the development of the nation. It implies the use of resources in a larger mix of diverse crop group having complementary activities within crop sector and shifting of resources from less value crops to high value crops. With globalization of market, now crop diversification in agriculture means to increase the total productivity in terms of quality quantity and monetary values under diverse agro-climatic situations of the country. It is now of urgent necessity for the third world developing countries for their overall sustainable development. It is affected with varying nature of risks, opportunities and feasibilities of enhanced socio-economic and agro-economic security. The author has been prompted to write this book which is chalked out into nine chapters viz. Concept of crop diversification in agriculture, productive agriculture, Commercial horticulture, Cropping systems, forest and forestry, organic farming, alternate or diversified agriculture, balanced fertilization and researches for meeting the challenges ahead. Hope this book will augment the modern thoughts of the scientists, planners, economists and the ultimate food growers of the country, for whom planning is done towards reaching the ultimate goal of prosperity of the nation. Suggestions are invited for enriching the contents of the subject. |
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