Crop Modelling for Land Use Planning
Contents: Preface. About the author. About the book. 1. Yield prediction - crop models and their application/Aditya Kumar Singh. 2. AquaCrop - the FAO crop model to simulate yield response to water/Aditya Kumar Singh. 3. The AquaCrop environment - the FAO crop model to simulate yield responses to water/Aditya Kumar Singh. 4. Yield gap analysis: modelling of achievable yields at farm level/Aditya Kumar Singh. 5. Soil variability, formation, profile development and horizon description for crop planning/R.S. Singh. 6. Soil survey and mapping technique/T.P. Verma and Rameshwar Singh. 7. Practical on base maps, toposheets, cadastral maps and image interpretation/T.P. Verma and B.L. Tailor. 8. Soil site characterization for crop specific FAO land suitability evaluation/B.L. Jain. 9. Agro-ecological assessment of soil resources of Rajasthan for land use planning/B.L. Jain. 10. New vistas in perspective of land use planning/R.L. Shyampura. 11. Characterization of soil hydraulic properties in farm scale for application of crop growth models/Priyabrata Santra. 12. Geostatistical application for characterization of soil in a farm scale/Priyabrata Santra. 13. Delineation of micro watershed/P.K. Singh. 14. Watershed characterization for land use planning/R.S. Singh and S.S. Sharma. 15. Resource characterization of micro watershed - a case study of Changeri Micro watershed, Udaipur (Rajasthan)/Aditya Kumar Singh, R.L. Shyampura and Rameshwar Singh. 16. Role of remote sensing in crop modelling/D.K. Das. 17. Geographic information system: fundamentals and uses/Manoj Mahla. 18. Application of remote sensing and GIS in management of soil and water resources and land use planning/D.K. Das. 19. Contingency crop planning for dryland areas in relation to climate change/N.L. Joshi. 20. Climate change and agriculture: the Indian perspective/S.P.S. Tanwar and Aditya Kumar Singh. 21. Conservation agriculture: the way forward for India/S.P.S. Tanwar and Aditya Kumar Singh. 22. Contingent crop planning for aberrant weather conditions/P.L. Maliwal. 23. Soil test crop response as a key component of crop modelling/V.K. Saini and R.S. Yadav. 24. Concept of growing period for land use planning/D.K. Mandal. 25. Crop growth models and their application for land evaluation/M.V. Venugopalan. 26. Crop modeling under rainfed agriculture/D.K. Mandal. 27. InfoCrop: a dynamic simulation model for the assessment of crop yields, losses due to pests, and environmental impact of agro-ecosystems in tropical environments. I. Model descriptions/P.K. Aggarwal, N. Kalra, S. Chander and H. Pathak. 28. InfoCrop model and its applications/M.V. Venugopalan. 29. The Rhizosphere: an important factor for crop modeling/R.S. Yadav, A.V. Agalodiya, S.I. Patel and V.K. Saini. 30. Production potential prediction of maize based on edaphic characters in AESR 4.2 of Udaipur district, Rajasthan/Aditya Kumar Singh, R.S. Singh and Dilip Singh. 31. Modeling soybean yield in different type of soils in AESR 4.2 of Udaipur (Rajasthan)/Aditya Kumar Singh and R.S. Singh. 33. Mustard yield prediction based on soil site characters in Udaipur (Rajasthan)/Aditya Kumar Singh and R.S. Singh. 34. Modelling wheat yield in relation to soil characteristics and management practices in Udaipur, Rajasthan/Aditya Kumar Singh and R.S. Singh. Selected References. Subject Index.
Land use planning under multiple (and partly) conflicting development goals with increasing competition for scarce resources is complex and planners need tools such as models and expert systems to make the issues transparent and identify feasible solutions.
Strategic agricultural planning needs to identity the most relevant issues for a given region. Planners need to all avail themselves of quantitative information on optimum land use allocation under a given set of goals and constraints. A key to resolving potential conflicts between the required increase in productivity and farmers income and the conservation of water, soil and other natural resources is to identity production systems and technologies that make optimum use of external inputs and natural resources and avoid natural resources degradation and policy measures supporting their adoption for sustainable agriculture development.
Food security and sustainable agriculture development have conventionally been the focus of land use plans. Our demands for agricultural land grazing, forestry, wildlife tourism and other development activities are greater than the land resources available. The LUP goals define what is meant by the best use of the land and may be grouped under the heading of efficiency, equity and acceptability and sustainability.
The time has now come to take a hard look into the concept of multifunctional agriculture in which it has one or several functions in addition to its primary role of producing food. An ideal land use system for such a programme would be targeted for increasing the agricultural production for conservation of soils as well as improving the productivity of water in a command area watershed or for ensuring livelihood generating employment and last but not the least for ensuring food security.
Before applying a model, it is necessary to analyze each component to evaluate constraints, causes of these constraints, indicators of current sustainability and technology needed to attain the level of sustainability. This book explores essence of the land use plan for a set of conditions in administrative manageability and political problem and potentiality and political problem and potentiality of resources, availability of technology, social acceptability and responsiveness and environmental integrity.
Land use planning under multiple (and partly) conflicting development goals with increasing competition for scarce resources is complex and planners need tools such as models and expert systems to make the issues transparent and identify feasible solutions.
Strategic agricultural planning needs to identity the most relevant issues for a given region. Planners need to all avail themselves of quantitative information on optimum land use allocation under a given set of goals and constraints. A key to resolving potential conflicts between the required increase in productivity and farmers income and the conservation of water, soil and other natural resources is to identity production systems and technologies that make optimum use of external inputs and natural resources and avoid natural resources degradation and policy measures supporting their adoption for sustainable agriculture development.
Food security and sustainable agriculture development have conventionally been the focus of land use plans. Our demands for agricultural land grazing, forestry, wildlife tourism and other development activities are greater than the land resources available. The LUP goals define what is meant by the best use of the land and may be grouped under the heading of efficiency, equity and acceptability and sustainability.
The time has now come to take a hard look into the concept of multifunctional agriculture in which it has one or several functions in addition to its primary role of producing food. An ideal land use system for such a programme would be targeted for increasing the agricultural production for conservation of soils as well as improving the productivity of water in a command area watershed or for ensuring livelihood generating employment and last but not the least for ensuring food security.
Before applying a model, it is necessary to analyze each component to evaluate constraints, causes of these constraints, indicators of current sustainability and technology needed to attain the level of sustainability. This book explores essence of the land use plan for a set of conditions in administrative manageability and political problem and potentiality and political problem and potentiality of resources, availability of technology, social acceptability and responsiveness and environmental integrity.
