Rainfed Agriculture
New India Publishing Agency (Verlag)
978-93-86546-04-3 (ISBN)
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The content focuses on innovative approaches to managing dryland and rainfed lands, including an introduction to rainfed farming, its characteristics, distribution, and associated challenges. Additionally, the management of rainfed crops, water harvesting and moisture conservation, the use of mulches and antitranspirants, principles of intercropping, watershed resource management, drought management, soil erosion, stress physiology, and the potential for agro-horticulture, agro-forestry, and silvi-pasture in dryland agriculture are all explored in depth.
R.K. Nanwal, Professor, Department of Agronomy, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar, Haryana, India. G.A. Rajanna, Scientist, Department of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, IARI-PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India.
1. Rainfed farming: introduction, characteristics, distribution and problems
2. Efficient management of rainfed crops, contingent crop planning for aberrant weather situations
3. Management of rainfed crops; Choice of crops and varieties; Planting methods under low rainfall conditions
4. Water harvesting and moisture conservation; Study of mulches and antitranspirants
5. Principles of Intercropping; cropping systems/intercropping systems in rainfed agriculture; mulches and antitranspirants
6. Concept of watershed resource management, problems, approach and components
7. Drought and its management
8. Land use capability classification, Scope of agro-horticultural, agro-forestry and silvi-pasture in dryland agriculture
9. Tillage, tilth, frequency and depth of cultivation, compaction in soil tillage; concept of conservation tillage
10. Soil erosion: Definition, nature and extent of erosion, types of erosion and factors affecting soil erosion
11. Drainage considerations and agronomic management; rehabilitation of abandoned jhum lands and measures to prevent soil erosion
12. Stress physiology: mitigating stress in dryland area
13. Tools and implements used in dryland agriculture
14. Collection of biometric data of rainfed crops and its interpretation
| Erscheinungsdatum | 04.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New Delhi |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 730 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Meteorologie / Klimatologie | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei | |
| ISBN-10 | 93-86546-04-3 / 9386546043 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-93-86546-04-3 / 9789386546043 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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