Crop Management and Integrated Farming

Description

Crop management practices for the safe use of salt-affected soils and saline water primarily consists of growing suitable salt-tolerant crops, managing seedbeds, and grading fields to minimize local accumulation of salts, soil management, improving irrigationefficiency and soil, water, and salinity monitoring for assessing leaching and drainage requirements. Integrated farming is a whole farm management system which aims to deliver more sustainable agriculture. It is a dynamic approach which can be applied to any farming system around the world. It involves attention to detail and continuous improvement in all areas of a farming business through informed management processes. Consider using combinations of species. You also need to decide where cover crops best fit in your system-planted following the main crop, intercropped during part or all of the growing of the main crop, or grown for an entire growing season in order to build up the soil. The goal, while not always possible to attain, should be to have something growing in your fields (even if dormant during the winter) all the time. The book fills the need for an up-to-date comprehensive text on crop management and integrated farming under varying situations and covers comprehensively the content of the courses of Field Crops and Farming Systems in Agronomy offered for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels of agricultural universities in the country.