Dryland Agriculture

This book is written to serve a reference/guide book for the students of agriculture, veterinary, soil conservation and field practitioners. The book fills the need for an up-to-date comprehensive text on the Dry land Agriculture under varying situations for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels. This book will be of immense use in imparting knowledge on the basic principles and applied aspects of the dry land farming for students, teachers, scientists, extension workers and professionals engaged in agricultural development. The coverage of twenty two chapters brings out all aspects of the Dry land Agriculture, which includes introduction, history of dry land agriculture, dry land agriculture and its characteristics, problems of crop production, moisture stress and conservation, cropping systems, Agro-forestry and social forestry, Crop ecology, cropping patterns in irrigated and rainfed conditions, assessment of agronomic interactions, drought and agricultural drought, watershed management, development of dry land agriculture in India, researches in dry farming for increasing productivity, soil salinity in dry lands, management of pasture lands in the arid and semi-arid regions, wasteland management, soil fertility and fertilizer use, weed management, diseases of dry land crops and their management, role of sustainable agriculture, and general recommendations, future prospects and conclusion, etc. Each chapter is brief comprehensive and full-fledged with respect to technical information.