Organic Farming Food Production for Sustainability.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sharma, Vikas.

Contributor:

Sharma, Satish K.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organic farming.

Sustainable agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (359 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Write & Print Publications, 2018.

Summary:

Organic farming seems to be more appropriate as it considered the important aspects like sustainable. Agriculture is the most important sector for ensuring food security, alleviating poverty and conserving the vital natural resources that the world's present and future generation will be entirely dependent upon for their survival and well being, in the name of development, the environmental resources have been beyond comprehension. Acid rain, deforestation, depletion, smog due to automobiles and discharge of industrial pollution, soil degradation, depletion of ozone layer and discharge of toxic wastage by industrial units into rivers and oceans are some environmental problematic issues. Intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides has been an important tool in the drive for increased crop production. In fact more fertilizers consumption is a good indication of agricultural productivity but depletion of soil fertility is commonly observed in soils. Due to heavy use of chemical herbicides, pesticides and intensification of agricultural production during the past few decades has led to other harmful effects like nitrate in the ground water, contamination of fooding materials, eutrophication, stratospheric changes etc. High agricultural inputs are unlikely to be sustainable for very long unless the inputs are correctly judged in terms of both their quality and quantity. To escape from these harmful effects, the concept of organic farming was emerged from the conference of Atlanta in 1981. Organic Farming seems to be more appropriate as it considered the important aspects like sustainable natural resources and environment. It is a production system, which favors maximum use of organic materials like crop residues, FYM, compost, green manure, oil cakes, biofertilizers, biogas slurry etc. to improve soil health from the different experiment,

microbial fertilizers like Rhizomic, Azotobacter, Blue green algae, Azolla etc. have increased the yield and also played important role for minimizing the harmful effect of pesticides and herbicides. Organic farming is a practical proposition for sustainable agriculture if adequate attention is paid to this issue. There is urgent need to involve more and more scientist to identify the thrust area of research for the development of ecofriendly production technology.

Contents:

Cover

Halftitle Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

About the Author

About the Book

Contents

1. Introduction

2. Organic Farming in the Indian Context

3. Organic Farming in the Drylands

4. Organic Farming Research and Development: A Holistic Approach

5. Cover Crop Species for Organic Farming Systems

6. Soil Fertility

7. Maintaining Soil Fertility in an Organic Fruit and Vegetable Crops System

8. Soil Conservation Practices

9. Soil Improvements with Legumes

10. Using Organic Manure and Compost as Nutrient Sources for Fruit and Vegetable Crops

11. Conservation of Fertilizers and Livestock Manure for Organic Farming

12. Disease Management in Organic Farming Systems

13. Organic Crop: Insect Management

14. Integrated Pest Management Concepts for Weeds in Organic Farming Systems

15. Livestock and Forages: Essentials of Organic Farming

16. Organic Cereal Production

17. Organic Vegetable and Horticultural Crops Production

18. Planning of Crop Rotation

19. Manure and Compost as Nutrient Sources for Crops

20. Marketing Organic Produce

21. Nutrient Budget Basics for Organic Farming Systems

22. Inspection and Certification Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9789387214408

9387214400

OCLC:

1085188983