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The book contains 16 chapters beginning with Introduction, meaning, history of Vrikshayurveda, heritage of Indian system of agriculture and Indigenous Technical Knowledge. Subsequently a review article on Vrikshyurveda farming is presented in length. The crop quality aspects like physiological parameters, food grain quality, healthy foods for happy living are nicely discussed. The crop production and management aspects viz., weed management, seed fortification ...
Agriculture in India has a long history which dates back to the Neolithic age of 7500-6500 BC. In those days farming system adopted aimed at maintaining the livelihood of farmers on a sustainable basis along with livestock with minimum damage to the environment. In the past decades, agricultural development focused on short-term productivity based on external inputs resulted in damage to the environmental resources and indigenous knowledge and hence, ...