Agriculture Diversification : Problems and Perspectives
Contents: Preface. 1. Agricultural diversification: problems and prospects/Mirthyunjaya. 2. Diversification under different agro-ecosystem/R.K. Pathak. 3. Role of transfer of technology in sustainable agriculture development/Anil Katiyar and O.P. Singh. 4. Integrated pest management strategies for sustainability of agriculture/Seema Wahab. 5. Fungal Biocontrol Agents (BCAS) and their metabolites/Ashish Kumar, Susheel Kumar, Rashmi Srivastava and A.K. Sharma. 6. Biofertilizers for sustainable agriculture/Rashmi Srivastava, Mamta Joshi, Ashish Kumar, Saurabh Pachauri and A.K. Sharma. 7. Role of Mycorrhiza as biofertilizer in agriculture/Shruti Chaturvedi and A.K. Sharma. 8. Forage crops in agriculture diversification: managing fertilizer use in forage cultivation/Sunil Kumar and N.P. Melkania. 9. Diversification with special emphasis on rice varietal adoption/Hari Nath Singh, Sushil Pandey and Aileen Lapitan. 10. Agroforestry for biodiversity conservation/Rajesh Kaushal, Salil Tewari and K.S. Verma. 11. Floriculture--a preposition for diversification/Ranjan Srivastava, Ram Chandra and Kavita Kandpal. 12. Agriculture diversification: medicinal and aromatic plants/S.K. Tewari. 13. Protected vegetable cultivation/K.P. Singh, Anant Bahadur and S.N.S. Chaurasia. 14. Biodiversity for the rehabilitation of degraded lands/R.K. Singh. 15. Aquaculture status and strategies/S. Ayyappan, P.K. Varshney and Neelam Saharan. Index.
"Poverty continues to persist in many countries throughout the world despite improvements in the global trade regime and significant enhancement in agricultural productivity through the Green Revolution technologies. To achieve the millennium goal of halving poverty by 2015, these people should be provided with alternative production opportunities that can generate new employment and enhance incomes. Data from several countries reviewed in this study confirm that agricultural diversification can contribute to this.
In a scenario of shrinking land and depleting water resources, the challenge of the new millennium is to increase biological yields to feed the ever-growing population without destroying the ecological foundation. It is thus important not to package this challenge as a demand or imposition on farmers, for which they would bear the cost, but as a necessity and methodology to also sustain their welfare.
This book deals with different practices in agriculture diversification. Care has been taken to include applied aspects and present scenario of different practices necessary for agriculture diversification. The book will be of use to the students, researchers and progressive farmers."
