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With input from virtually all biological disciplines and applications to all the crops, seed occupies a pivotal role in agricultural and horticultural sciences. Recognizing the importance of seed quality the book has been the necessity. The unique feature of this book is the inclusion of chapters explaining the techniques of quality seed production in horticultural crops, like vegetables, fruits, flowers and medicinal crops. This book also deals with then ...
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, ...