Agricultural sustainability : progress and prospects in crop research

Agricultural sustainability : progress and prospects in crop research / edited by Gurbir S. Bhullar, Navreet K. Bhullar.

Collaboratively written by top international experts and established scientists in various fields of agricultural research, this book focuses on the state of food production and sustainability; the problems with degradation of valuable sources of land, water, and air and their effects on food crops;...

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Other Authors: Bhullar, Gurbir S., Bhullar, Navreet K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Waltham, MA : Academic Press, ©2013.
Subjects:
Sustainable agriculture.
Crops > Ecology.
Crop yields.
Food supply.
Agricultural systems.
sustainable agriculture (discipline)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Agronomy > General.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
Agricultural systems
Crop yields
Crops > Ecology
Food supply
Sustainable agriculture
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Table of Contents:
  • Functional agrobiodiversity : the key to sustainability? / Paolo Bàrberi
  • Organic agriculture : driving innovations in crop research / Dionys Forster, Noah Adamtey, Monika M. Messmer, Lukas Pfiffner, Brian Baker, Beate Huber and Urs Niggli
  • Guar : an industrial crop from marginal farms / N.A. Kuravadi, S. Verma, S. Pareek, P. Gahlot, S. Kumari, U.K. Tanwar, P. Bhatele, M. Choudhary, K.S. Gill, V. Pruthi, S.K. Tripathi, K.S. Dhugga and G.S. Randhawa
  • Nitrogen use as a component of sustainable crop systems / Amritbir Riar and David Coventry
  • Potential of management practices and amendments for preventing nutrient deficiencies in field crops under organic cropping systems / Sukhdev S. Malhi, Tarlok S. Sahota, and Kabal S. Gill
  • Effective management of scarce water resources in north-west India / Sudhir-Yadav, Balwinder-Singh, Elizabeth Humphreys and Surinder Singh Kukal
  • Modeling for agricultural sustainability : a review / Mukhtar Ahmed, Muhammad Asif, Arvind H. Hirani Mustazar N. Akram and Aakash Goyal
  • Biotechnological approaches for increasing productivity and sustainability of rice production / D.S. Brar and G.S. Khush
  • Biofortification of staple crops / Vishal Chugh and Harcharan S. Dhaliwal
  • Nutrient-focused processing of rice / Nadina Müller-Fischer
  • Virus resistance breeding in cool season food legumes : integrating traditional and molecular approaches / Shalu Jain, Kevin McPhee, Ajay Kumar, Reyazul Rouf Mir and Ravinder Singh
  • Talking agricultural sustainability issues : an interview with Dr. Gurdev Khush / Gurbir S. Bhullar
  • Economics and politics of farm subsidies in India / S.S. Johl
  • Public-private partnership and policy reforms for effective agricultural research, development, and training : a viewpoint / Sant S. Virmani
  • Contract-farming for production and procurement of mint : lessons from personal experience / Tarlok S. Sahota.

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