Sunil Kumar
46 books
This Book presents a wide range of issues involved in development of livestock Entrepreneurship. It presents an insight into the identification of business opportunities, by learning the different aspects of livestock farming and exploration and preparation of different products of foods of animal origin. Livestock are the best insurance against the vagaries of nature like drought, famine and other natural calamities. This book is aimed to provide an excellent ...
The present book is the outcome of valuable scientific contribution made by various scientists across the country. This book has comprehensive coverage of all the issues and strategies related to farming systems and is expected to provide valuable information for research scholars, undergraduate and post graduate students having farming systems course in their curriculum, guide to entrepreneurs, farming community and NGOs. This book contains thirty eight chapters ...
The world population has increased dramatically in the past century, generating a concern for progressive and sustainable food production. It is expected to further increase by 1.3 billion in 2030 and by 2.5 billion in 2050, reaching 9.7 billion. To provide food security to this growing population, the world food production may need to increase by 60-110%. Biotic and abiotic stresses are major threat to plant growth and halt them from reaching their full genetic ...
The challenges of feeding over 9 billion peoples by 2050 in a sustainable and environmentally friendly way cannot be met without the continued innovation and adoption of new cutting edge technologies in the agricultural science. The emerging technologies and concepts, like molecular breeding includes marker assisted selection or genomics assisted breeding, bioinformatics for crop improvement and development of new cropping system and crop modeling, under climate ...
This book contains chapters written by young enthusiastic scientists, teachers and researchers who are involved in research, tesearch, teaching and extension of modern scientific agricultural principles and practices in different parts of India.
Attempts have been made to cover various aspects of modern agricultural viz. genetic improvement of crop plants, modern methods in plant breeding, seed science, ground water resources management, integrated farming ...
With the increase in crop yields from modern agriculture reaching a plateau in most of the countries and the environmental degradation along with ecological imbalances due to excessive use of chemical fertilizers, pesticides, high yielding variety seeds becoming a matter of concern, the need for agricultural sustainability is being felt all over the world. In this regard to attain high levels of food grain production to pace the demands of the ever growing ...
This book entitled “Reshaping Technology for Agricultural Development” edited keeping in view that by the introduction of modern technologies in agriculture along with excess use of chemical fertilizer and pesticides is a major problem associated with agriculture ecosystem and danger for agricultural sustainability and in this context, it is urgently required to reshape the agricultural technology which is to be technically sound, economically viable, ...
The present book entitled Modern technologies forsustainableagriculture is a modest attempt to compile the updatedavailableliterature related to accelerate sustainable agriculturefoodsecurity and farmers livelihood. The book contains twentytwochapters contributed by renowned scientists coveringvariousaspects to agricultural production system.
There has been a tremendous increase in the production of livestock products and this is expected to continue in the coming future. This is especially in developing countries. The greatest increase is in the production of poultry and pigs, as well as eggs and milk. Livestock production can make good use of resources, some of which may otherwise not be used, and contributes high quality protein and important micronutrients to the human diet.
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