Böcker av C Karthikeyan

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) deals with aspects like poverty, hunger, food and nutritional security, health, education, gender and empowerment, resource conservation and combating climate change etc., which requires intervention of innovative technologies in agriculture capable of ensuring sustainable agriculture and rural development. An attempt has been taken on these perspectives to document the emerging promising innovative technology and institutional intervention in agriculture. The contents in the book largely focuses on the potential technologies addressing the contemporary challenges and issues: natural resource conservation, complex diversified risk prone agriculture, climate smart agriculture, crop management, pest and disease management, nutrient management, irrigation management, weed management, waste management, ICT application -sustainable livelihood and institutional interventions. The book will be greatly useful to the technology creators, disseminators, adopters, agricultural educationist, extension professionals, students, research scholars, policy makers and administrators.

In this book experts from various disciplines were contributed to bring out the book on rice cultivation to facilitate the dissemination of advanced rice information to the Rice Scientists, Extension Officials and other Stakeholders. This book will explain the present and future scenario of rice at national and international level. It covers the following major aspects such as new rice varieties, seed technology, soil science, agronomy, crop physiology, plant protection, harvest, value addition, traditional varieties, rice machineries and rice economics. The organic rice cultivation, water management and experience of successful farmers in rice were added increase to the essence of this book. Advances in rice cultivation deals on rice cultivation with advanced aspects suitable for the present and future rice-farming scenario.