The book Soil Health for Better Crops has been designed to focus on improving the soil health leading to sustainable and precision agriculture for the upliftment of the socio-economic status of the resource-poor farming communities. The author has been prompted to write this books as a practical reference document on the works of various scientists and has tried to focus various factors of better agronomic efficiency in crop production and productivity.
He has dealt the subjects in 8 chapters with concept of soil health problems and remedies, improving soil health, issues for sustainable agriculture, balanced fertilisation for better crops, IPNS, caring for our land, soil health enhancement campaign, organic farming-status and challenges, food security and agricultural sustainability, agronomic efficiency for nitrification inhibition, use of neem coated urea, sulphur for sustainable high yield agriculture, problem of coastal areas and their sustainable management, tsunami lesson to save mangroves, sustainable agriculture in the Sundarbans, remote sensing and GIS for coastal management, mineral stress in problem soils, adaptation of crops to acidity and salinity, cropping systems and soil health-rice based, wheat based, pulse based, oilseeds, vegetables, fruit crops, plantations and other commercial cropping systems, nutritional management, etc.
Hope this book will be helpful for everyone fighting for a greener vision and mission of the developing countries like ours in the years to come for producing better crops, their production quantum and productivity, and balanced diet to everybody of the nation.
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