Agricultural sustainability : progress and prospects in crop research

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bhullar, Gurbir S. (Author), Bhullar, Navreet K. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Academic Press , c2013
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Functional agrobiodiversity : the key to sustainability?
  • 2. Organic agriculture - driving innovations in crop research
  • 3. Guar: an industrial crop from marginal farms
  • 4. Nitrogen use as a component of sustainable crop systems
  • 5. Potential of management practices and amendments for preventing nutrient deficiencies in field under organic cropping systems
  • 6. Effective management of scarce water resourced in North-West India
  • 7. Modeling for agricultural sustainability : a review
  • 8. Biotechnological approaches for increasing productivity and sustainablity of rice production
  • 9. Biofortification of staple crops
  • 10. Nutrient-focused processing of rice
  • 11. Virus resistance breeding in cool season food legumes : integrating traditional and molecular approaches
  • 12. Talking agricultural sustainablity issues - an interview with Dr. Gurdev Khush
  • 13. Economics and politics of farm subsidies in India
  • 14. Public-private partnership and policy reforms for effective agricultural research, development, and training : a viewpoint
  • 15. Contract-farming for production and procurement of mint - lessons from personal experience