Ram Singh
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Agricultural production provides income employment and food at affordable prices as-well-as raw material for the processing industry and foreign exchange from exports. Creating a sustainable agricultural development path means improving the quality of life in rural areas, ensuring enough food for present and future generations and generating sufficient income for farmers.
The present book has been compiled from the work done by research scholars from different ...
Farming system is a resource management strategy to achieve economic and sustained production to meet diverse requirement to farm household while presenting resources bare and maintaining a high level environmental quality. The simple tool to assess the costs and returns of the crops is cost cultivation by using various cost concepts.
The present book entitled “Economics of Farming System” provide the detailed methodology to workout the costs and ...
Taj Mahal is Ram Singh's latest poetic expression in which the story of Taj has been weaved into verse. The poet ruminates not just on the love between Mumtaz Mahal and Shah Jahan but also the history of the Taj. For him, Taj is part of folklore romance throughout the world. Lovers take pledges in the name of Taj. It is the ultimate expression of a true lover's dedication and commitment to the beloved.
Taj is a symbol of love etched in white marble. Much has been ...
This book on Agri-business management: a training manual is prepared keeping in view the present demand of the scholars, researchers and policy makers who are engaged in the fields of agriculture and agri-business management. A few literature is availabe in this field to conduct the class on practical as well as theory for the trainees as well as for the students who are pursuing their degree programme at UG/PG/Ph.D. level. Keeping in view preparing a ...
This compendium of 48 papers, presented at a national seminar, held at the College of Post Graduate Studies, Central Agricultural University, Meghalaya, attempts to examine the agri-business potentials in India, with special reference to the North-East region. Taking a close look at the scenario of crop sector, it discusses at length the scope of diversification in horticulture, economics of integrated farming system, and production and marketing of paddy, maize, ...
The careful balance of mass production and use of sustainable practices need to be better understood and promoted to feed the ever expanding population. Biopesticides have made some impact during last few decades but there is still a lot that can be done to promote the adoption of the environmentally friendly and yield enhancing crop inputs. Main strategies should involve biopesticides with low/no residue brand, supportive legislation as an incentive to research ...
Drivers behind food security and crop protection issues vis-avis the food losses caused by pests include rapid human population increase, climate change, loss of beneficial on farm biodiversity reduction in per capita cropped land, water shortages and pesticide withdrawals. Integrated pest management, therefore becomes a compulsory strategy in agriculture, which offers a toolbox of complementary crop and region specific crop protection solutions to address these ...
Host plant resistance is considered to be the key to integrated pest management as this approach is environment friendly, provides cumulative protection against insect pests and is often compatible with other pest management tactics. During the last two decades, spectacular progress has been achieved in development of insect resistant varieties to major insect pests of agricultural crops. Recently the release of transgenic crops has generated a keen interest ...
This volume has 11 chapters, divided in three sections viz., Entomology, Nematology and Weeds. It provides complete information about the various techniques used for Allelopathy research in the field of entomology, nematology and weeds. It is written in a simple and lucid language. It will be very useful to undergraduate and postgraduate students and faculty for used in class room and laboratory experiments and research.