The future of our agriculture and food security will depend upon the attention we pay to soil conservation and enhancement of water harvesting and its careful and efficient use, conservation of agro-biodiversity, and anticipatory action for meeting the challenges of global warming resulting in unfavourable shift in temperature, rainfall and sea level rise etc.
Indian farming systems has now achieved so many bright milestones producing over 100 million tonnes of rice and 90 millions tonnes of wheat during 2011-12. Our milk production has reached about 120 million tonnes. The milk revolution also owned much to the integrated attention paid to milk handling, processing distribution and pricing.
Contents: Preface. 1. Systems Agriculture: The desirable perspectives. 2. Farming Systems in India. 3. Concept for Farming Systems Research (FSR). 4. Cropping Systems and Nutrient Management. 5. Sustainable Farming Systems Approach for the Tropical Agriculture. 6. Forests and Forestry. 7. Agroforestry. 8. Sewage Farming. 9. Other Farming Systems in India. Index.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR B L Jana
Balai Lal Jana, born on 2nd May, 1947 in the district of East Midnapore of West Bengal holds a brilliant academic record with M.Sc. (Ag.) in Agronomy. He obtained Diploma in Agronomy. He obtained Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication from Kolkata, certificate for visiting Professional Training in Agricultural Research from the East Anglia University, Norwich, England; FAI training on Rainfed Agriculture in collaboration with ICRISAT, Hyderabad, etc. He served the erstwhile Fertiliser Corporation of India, (FCI), subsequently the Hindustan Fertiliser Corporation (HFC) as a seniormost Senior Agronomist in Technical Publicity, FP & ARD and ODA-funded Rainfed Farming Project, etc. He also served as the Training Organiser, Seva Bharati Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kapgari of Paschim Medinipore district of West Bengal. He has written 15 books. He has published 70 articles in Journals of national and international repute. He is the sub-editor of "Sabuj Sona", an agricultural fortnightly and the Editor of "Bhawna", a house journal of the Eastern India Pesticides Association (EIPA), Kolkata. He visited England, attended seminars, workshops and corporate conferences of national and international status.
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