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  title info:
    title: Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) in a Sustainable Rice—Wheat Cropping System
  name:
    name part: Mahajan, Anil.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Gupta, R. D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXII, 268 p. online resource.
  abstract: India’s rice and wheat crops are in crisis – a dangerous situation for a nation where 75 per cent of the population depends on agriculture for a living. Today’s falling or static yields in these two key crops have been the result of the intensification of agriculture from the 1960s on. That so-called ‘Green Revolution’, which depended heavily on chemical fertilizers and pesticides, saw crop production keep pace with population growth until the end of the last millennium. Today, however, the sector is suffering from depleted soils and reduced ground water levels. Past excesses have even left the current generation of farmers with health hazards. The authors of this volume, experts in agriculture and agronomy in the subcontinent, say a new approach is needed. India’s population will rise from today’s 1.18 billion people to as many as 1.5 billion by 2020, with 25 per cent more mouths to feed. Not only that, but agriculture’s pre-eminent place in the country’s economy, where it is 18 per cent of total GDP and the biggest single export sector, make any problem in the industry one of national importance. Other nations in Asia, including Pakistan, Nepal, China and Bangladesh, have already recognized the problem of static yields and have developed the concept of the ‘Integrated Nutrient Management’ (INM) system. Its aim is to make agricultural cropping sustainable by maintaining or enhancing the soil quality while leaving room for increases in yields, and it advocates the balanced use of both organic and inorganic methodologies. Mahajan and Gupta, both highly experienced experts in the science of agriculture, and in Gupta’s case a leading environmentalist, examine in detail India’s cropping crisis as well as the possible remedies. They conclude that the INM System is an essential component of any solution. The book also delineates potential sources of organic plant nutrients and bio-fertilizers in India, and analyzes the rice-wheat cropping system and the role INM could pla…
  table of contents: Concept of INM System -- Need of INM System in Modern Agriculture -- Components of INM System -- Bio-Fertilizers: Their Kinds and Requirement in India -- Potential of Organic Resources as Plant Nutrients in India -- The Rice–Wheat Cropping System -- Balanced Use of Plant Nutrients -- Effective Use of Fertilizers and Water Management for Rice–Wheat Cropping System -- Role of INM in Sustainable Rice–Wheat Cropping System -- Soil-Related Constraints in the Rice and Wheat Production -- Constraints in the Adoption of INM System -- Future Research Strategies/Priorities.
  note: edited by Anil Mahajan, R. D. Gupta.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Agriculture
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences, general
  subject:
    topic: Microbiology
  classification: S1-S972
  classification: 630
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      title: Springer eBooks
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