Development of Dryland Agriculture

Description

During recent decades of research by a agricultural scientist working in the dryland and rainfed agriculture, many new technologies have been devised to aid farmers in soil and water conservations, cropping sequences system, contingent crop planning, agronomic practices, nutrient management and fertilizing their crops more effectively. Dryland agricultural systems are inherently fragile. The variability in precipitation and at low quality of many arid-zone soils leads to variable and low yields and large fluctuations in farmers’ income. Farmers have always sought insurance against such variations, in particular against catastrophic years that could bring about famine and migration. This book is useful addition to the literature and would be useful for general use of the scientists in the literature and would be beneficial for general use to the scientists in the basic stream, agricultural scientists, students and for the person engaged in NGO’s associated with soil, water conservation, cropping system, nutrient management, cropping system, contingent crop planning in dryland/rainfed agriculture.