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Elevate your farming practices ‹ get your copy now! 1 Fun with Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.1 India?s agriculture and National Agricultural Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 1.2 Agriculture technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 1.3 Agriculture and Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 1.4 Soil and Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 1.5 Terrace Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 1.6 Hill Sheep Farming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 1.7 Desertification and its Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 1.8 Water Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 1.9 Land Utilization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 1.10 Soil Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 1.11 Water Conservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 1.12 Conservation Technologies for Sustaining Natural Resources . . 351 1.13 Watershed Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 405 1.14 Irrigation Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 434 1.15 Drainage Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 1.16 Stormwater Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 436 1.17 Soil Nutrients . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 438 1.18 Fertilizers and Integrated Nutrients Use . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 443 1.19 Weed Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 459 1.20 crop production management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 460 1.21 Disease and Pest Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 466 1.22 Apiculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 476 1.23 Insect Pests and their Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479 1.24 Pesticide Residues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 493 1.25 Nematodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 498 1.26 Farm Machinery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 517 1.27 Farm Power and Energy in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 520 1.28 Post-harvest Technology and Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546 1.29 Marketing and Trading agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 551 1.30 Farm Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 560 1.31 Agricultural Extension . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 1.32 Field Crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 567 1.33 crop production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 570 1.34 Rice crop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603 1.35 Wheat . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 607 1.36 Barley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613 1.37 Maize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 614 1.38 Oats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 621 1.39 Millets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 622 1.40 Types of crops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 624 1.41 Sugarcane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 1.42 Seed Production and Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 626 1.43 Agroforestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 627 1.44 Forage Crops and Grasses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 646 1.45 Indigenous Technical Knowledge in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 652 1.46 Sericulture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 706 1.47 Intellectual Property Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 709 1.48 Agricultural Biotechnology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 757 1.49 Informatics in Agriculture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 764