Converting Deserts Into Oasis

by J.S.P. YADAV, R.K. SING

Overview

The Book with 22 contributors of eminent experts of national and international institutes, provides road map for improving productivity and sustainability of desert farming systems and is highly useful for students and researchers of dryland farming, soil sciences, agro-forestry, agronomy, water management, plant breeding, range management etc, beside development agencies engaged in combating desertification and improving livelihoods. The book deals with internationally validated modern farm technologies including integrated watershed management models, disaster management, overview of Afghanistan agriculture and future needs, technological interventions in the Thar and cold deserts, agro-met services, remote sensing, shelterbelts and agro-forestry systems for preventing deserts, water harvesting indigenous methods and use efficiency with management of poor quality water in deserts, desert livestock improvement through grasslands, nutrition, animal health and other interventions. While reviewing, Prof. M.S. Swami Nathan remarked It is an excellent book.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781626992153
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2009
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	288
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. J.S.P. Yadav, a Padma Shri Awardee, is an internationally renowned agricultural scientist, decorated with several national and international awards as well as Fellowship of several Scientific Societies including Chemical Society, London and Honorary Member of International Union of Soil Sciences. He occupied important positions such as Director, CSSRI, Karnal, Vice-Chancellor, HAU, Hisar and Chairman, ASRB, GOI. He has been President of five national Scientific Societies related to Soil Science, Water Management, Agriculture, Salinity and Coastal Research. He served as Chairman / Member of several professional committees, meetings and panels at national and international level, and has been Expert Consultant of FAO, USAID, UNDP, UN-ESCAP, World Bank, WAPCOS, AFC, etc. He is Editor of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences and has to his credit a large number of publications in reputed journals beside authoring several chapters, books and bulletins.



Dr. R.K. Singh, M.Sc., Ph. D. was born on 31st March 1962. He did his B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. from Lucknow University, Lucknow. He joined U. P. Council of sugarcane Research as Scientific Officer (Genetics) and served for eleven years and he was also in-charge of Genetics and Cytogenetics section. After that he joined Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) as Senior Scientist (Genetics) at National Research Centre for Soybean, Indore. Presently, he is working at Division of Crop Improvement, Indian Institute of Sugarcane Research, Lucknow in the field of molecular breeding and transgenic. He has been awarded SERC visiting fellowship (DST) and National Biotechnology Associateship (DBT) in the year 1998 and 2000 in the field of Basic Molecular Biology, respectively and worked in the laboratory of National reputes. He worked on molecular markers for genetic diversity, tagging and mapping of gene/QTLs in the crops like rice, soybean and now on sugarcane. He was one of the pioneer molecular breeders in soybean crop in India. He was Principal Investigator in the Networking projects launched by ICAR on the molecular breeding and development of transgenic and functional genomics for soybean crop. He has more than sixty research papers to his credit published in the journals of national and international repute. He guided many M.Sc. students in the field of molecular breeding. He also visited Germany for learning advance technique in the field of Cytogenetics in the year 1994. He is member of several academic societies and editor of journal. Recently, he has co-edited a book on Plant Genomics and Bioinformatics.