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Marine environments encompass an impressive diversity of ecosystem and habitats. Coral reefs among the planets largest and older structures created by living organisms are home to dense concentrations of species and complex webs of interspecies interactions. Though the species diversity in these ecosystems is relatively less they are important in terms of fisheries and other ecosystem services. They provide shoreline stability in the case of mangroves and ...
Rice based cropping system is the major cropping system practised in India which includes the rotation of crops involving rice, pulses, oil seeds, cotton, sugar cane, green manures etc. The rice based cropping system offers lot of scope for the effective utilization of a wide range of biofertilizers such as Azolla, BGA, Azospirillum, Rhizobium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus and other heterotrophic N2 fixing bacteria which help to increase the yield by reducing ...
This book entitled Azolla Biofertilizer for Sustainable Rice Production contains the valuable informations from the vast experiences of the authors Prof. Dr. S. Kannaiya and Dr. K. Kumar in the field of Azolla-Anabaena symbiosis for the past 25 years. It is written with the objective of providing basic knowledge and practical technologies on the effective utilization of Azolla as an eco-friendly and economically viable biofertilizer for sustainable rice ...
Major economic resources for Indian livelihood is the agricultural development which can be achieved by educational initiatives, research planning and extension methodology. The tri-functional responsibility of the university faculty in teaching, research and extension is the unique feature of India agricultural education. Agricultural education adopted as land grant pattern from the USA is professional in nature and has to be returned to meet the demands of the ...