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 with broad heads covering i) overview, issue and strategies of farming system research in India ii) IFS based crop diversification, enterprise selection and planning iii) food and fodder production strategies based on farmers resource base iv) Integrated resource management v) climate change, carbon sequestration and agroforestry strategies vi) watershed based approach, soil and moisture conservation strategies vii) IPM and weed management strategies in IFS viii) animal health, diary farming, integrated goat, poultry and fish management through waste recycling ix) post harvest management of crop residues x) Socio-economic issues and analysis. This book is expected to provide sound knowledge in scientific forum for formulating research plan sand policies in the country for making our agriculture sustainable.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR A K Dixit
A.K. Dixit did his M.A. in History from Aligarh University in International Relations. He did his Ph.D. from Osmania University. He taught post-graduate classes in Aurangabad and later shifted to Osmania University. He writes regularly and has several books to his credit.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR M.M. Das
Dr. M.M. Das is a Professor in the Department of geography Gauhati University. About 56 research papers authored by Dr. das have been published so far in different reputed journals and books in India and abroad. His two published books –one on ‘Peasant Agriculture in Assam’ and the other on ‘landholding Structure: A problem in Peasant Agriculture in Assam’ the outcome of his ICSSR sponsored research project, have been widely reviewed and highly appreciated by geographers, intellectual and economists. He has also the experience in editing 4 books and 10 volumes of journal of the North east India geographical Society ‘The North Eastern geographer’, besides a volume of the ‘Annals of the National association of geographers, India’ as one of the guest editors. Dr. das has attended a large number of international and national seminars, workshops and conference. He was also invited by the institute of Human Geography, Milan University, Italy to deliver a series of lectures under the Indo-Italian Cultural exchange programme.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sunil Kumar
Dr. Sunil Kumar teaches in the Department of History, Delhi University. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1992. His book ‘The Emergence of the Delhi Sultanate 1190-1290’ is in press. Meanwhile he has completed another manuscript titled, ‘Sites of Power and Resistance: A Study of Sultanate Monumental Architecture’. Dr. Kumar resides in Saket, in South Delhi, near the sites discussed in this book.
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