Farming Systems Issues & Strategies

by Sunil Kumar, D.R. PALSANIYA

Overview

The present book is the outcome of valuable scientific contribution of made by various scientists across the country. This Book has comprehensive coverage of all the issues and strategies related to farming systems and is expected to provide valuable information for research scholars, undergraduate and post graduate students having farming systems course in their curriculum, guide to entrepreneurs, farming community and NGOs. This book contains thirty five chapters with broad heads covering i) Overview, issue and strategies of farming system research in India ii) IFS based crop diversification, enterprise selection and planning ii) Food and fodder production strategies based on farmers resource base iii) Integrated resource management iv) climate change, carbon sequestration and Agroforestry strategies v) watershed based approach, soil and moisture conservation strategies v) IPM and weed management strategies in IFS vi) animal health, dairy farming, integrated goat, poultry and fish management through waste recycling vii) post harvest management of crop residues viii) Socio-economic issues and analysis. This book is expected to provide sound knowledge in scientific forum for formulating research plans and policies in the country for making our agriculture sustainable

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789385055898
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	582
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Sunil Kumar is presently Head, Division of Crop Production, ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi since November, 2010. His research areas includes cropping systems, soil fertility and fertilizer use, weed management, resource use in changing climate, GHG emission and C sequestration in fodder & grazing based livestock production system, conservation agriculture and forage based integrated farming systems. He has been bestowed with several awards viz. SAP Recognition Award, Best Team Award Krishi Vasant, Fellow, Range Management Society of India, Certificate of Honor, IGFRI, Certificate of Excellence, NRC Weed Science. He has been elected as Vice President, The Society of Agricultural Professionals & Indian Society of Agro Forestry; Secretary, Range Management Society of India. He has published more than 50 papers in reputed International & National journals including 2 books.



Dr. D. R. Palsaniya is working as Senior Scientist, Agronomy at ICAR-IGFRI, Jhansi. He has eleven years experience in the field of agro forestry, watershed management, Farming system research, wasteland development through silvipasture and weed management. He is a person with meritorious career throughout and has over one hundred and twenty publications to his credit. He was awarded with Bhamashah Award by Maharana Mewar Foundation, Udaipur in 2001, Excellent Services to On-farm Trials (Team Award) by NRCAF, Jhansi, twice in 2008 and 2010, Vasant Rao Naik Award of ICAR for Outstanding Research Application in Dryland Farming Systems - 2010,PS Deshmukh Young Agronomist Award 2010 of Indian Society of Agronomy, New Delhi, Best Paper Award of Indian Society of Agronomy for the year 2012 and IGFRI Best Team Award - 2014.
Dr. Sunil Kumar, has obtained her B. Sc (Agriculture&Animal Husbandry) Pantnagar; M.Sc., Agriculture (animal Breeding), Pantnagar and Ph. D. Professor (Animal Genetics&Breeding ) in college of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, G B Plant University of Agriculture and Technology and pantnaga, Uttarakhand. Dr. kumar received Young Scientist Award for the year 2010 for achievements in the fields of research, education, social and community services to hills farmers this prestigious award is conferred by the In indian Society of hill Agriculture. his written work has been published in various esteemed magazines and journals of the country and abroad.