Organic Farming: Concepts, Applications and Advances

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This book is an account of introduction, principles, different practices, recent advances related to organic farming. A comprehensive reviews on benefits and limitations of organic farming as carried out by various research workers have been discussed in detail. The biomass energy is having great potential in the scenario of scarcity of energy. Soil organic matter is an important factor in restoring soil fertility. An increase in the soil fertility has a direct relationship with socioeconomic conditions of farmers, vegetable growers and orchardists. A healthy soil is always responsible for production of quality grains and fruits hence there is an urgent need to maintain for management of soil health. Organic produce are healthier and tasty than inorganic foods. However, the decline in yield has been noticed and recorded various research workers. The book “Organic Farming: Concepts, Applications and Advances” has been written in concise form.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Subhash Chand

Dr. Subash Chand did his B.Sc. Ag. (Honors) and M.Sc. Ag. (Honours) in soil Science from RAU, Bikaner in the year 1995 and 1997 respectively. Ph.D. Ag. In Soil Science from MPUAT, Udaipur in 2001. He is throughtout first class in his academic career. Dr. Subash Chand is recipient of PG course work seminar award and Somani's book award of ISSS, Udaipur chapter and PG merit Scholarship of the university. He received PG student research Grant for Doctoral research from DST, Government of Rajasthan and cleared NET of ASRB, New Delhi. He is author of book "Dictionary of Soil Science" and member of Advisory Board of magazine "Kisan International". He is a life member of ISSS, New Delhi. He is actively engaged as Assistant Professor in Division of Soil Science, SKUAST -Kashmir, Shalimar Campus, Srinagar, J&K. He has more than 25 research papers and popular articles in his credit.