Soil Management and Organic Farming

This book entitled “Soil Management and Organic farming” is written to serve a text book of Agronomy-cum-reference/guide book for the students of agriculture, veterinary, soil conservation and field practitioners. The book fills the need for an up-to-date comprehensive text on soil fertility management and organic farming under varying situations and covers comprehensively the content of the courses of Soil Management and Farming Systems in Agronomy offered for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels of Agricultural universities in the country. This book will be of immense use in country. This knowledge on the basic principles of Soil Fertility management n crop Production and applied aspects ogf Intergar5ted farming Systems for students, teachers, scientist extension workers and professionals engaged in agricultural development. The coverage of twenty one chapters brings out all aspects of Soil Management and Organic farming, which includes Introduction, Soil Management, Soil formation, Soil and its physical properties, Soil taxonomy and survey, Soil colloids and clay minerals, Saline, alkaline and acid soils, Soil organic matter, Soil and water conservation, Soil fertility and Productivity, Nutrient management, Source of plant nutrients, Fertilizers, green revolution, organic farming, farming systems, Components systems (IFS) under varying situation, IFS models under agro-ecosystem, organic farming in India and Abroad, and Sustainable agriculture with adequate references. Each chapter is brief, comprehensive full-fledged with respect to technical information.