Böcker av Suresh Acharya

Kachchh is characterized by its vast size and semi-arid climate with add-on of soil and water salinity, extreme temperatures and livelihood issues. This has made the district sparsely populated with thin vegetation cover. Consequently, the importance of plant species capable of substantially rejuvenating the ecological, economic and human health of the district cannot be underscored more. The resilient native communities have harnessed the potential of date palm, dadam (pomegranate), dragon fruit and drumstick, christened here as "4Ds of Kachchh". These crops have not only opened up new avenues for bolstering farm incomes but are slated to positively contribute to the nutritional and ecological well-being of the district.

This book, title 'Citrus crops' underscores the imperative of recognizing and addressing the challenges faced by citrus cultivation. This is not merely essential but also imperative for sustaining the economic and agricultural benifits that citrus cultivation bestows. The book places a strong emphasis on innovative cultivation practices, highlighting robust pest and disease management as crucial steps toward ensuring the resilince of citrus crops.

The ecological-balance is seminal for sustaining web-of-life on the Earth. The human's struggle with nature for "Roti, Kapda Aur Makan" has been quite rigorous. He has marshalled his resources well with equally stupendous achievements. Despite overwhelmed accomplishments, he has overlooked to nurture the nature. The geographical terrains have enormous impacts on the climate and keeping rendezvous with weather events. The monsoon would commence in June and would take about a month to reach Kashmir from Kerala. The Aravalli range would guide monsoon to Srinagar and Nainital that would fill the rivers and make the "Granary Bowl" of India abound in water, which is so precious resource for maintaining productivity. The terrain bereft of vegetation becomes abysmally impotent as an ecological resource. The recent extreme weather events happening the world over palpably evince that no region is immune to their impacts. This includes both mind boggling losses and human suffering. The nature has been warning the human in no uncertain terms to better watch out defying boundaries lest it would do justice in its own terms. AGROCEL Industries Private Limited considers biodiversity as an important tool for ecosystems to function efficiently and support a healthy environment. Thus, nature-based solutions to the current maladies cannot be more significant to augment nature's resilience to change. The nature-based solutions need to be relevant to local communities and growing situations with native plants, soil centric solutions and technologies occupying the central space. This requires changes in both behaviour of people and conservation of native plant species that are not exhaustive of natural resource-base for overall wellbeing of native ecosystem services. Most of its CSR activities of AGROCEL Industries Private Limited hover around resuscitating the bottomed up ecological health.