Organic Farming : Technologies and Strategies
Contents: 1. Technologies and strategies for organic farming in India-an overview/B. Gangwar and N. Ravisankar. 2. Western Himalayan region: (i) Himachal Pradesh/J.P. Saini and S.K. Sharma. 3. Western Himalyan region: (ii) Uttarakhand/D.K. Singh and Shilpi Gupta. 4. Eastern Himalayan region: North East states of India/Anup Das, Jayanta Layek, Ramkrushna G.I., Badapmain Makdoh and S.V. Ngachan. 5. Lower Gangatic plains region: West Bengal/Mahadev Pramanick and M. Srinivasarao. 6. Middle Gangatic plains: Bihar/R.P. Sharma, S.K. Dutta and Mainak Ghosh. 7. Upper Gangetic plains: Uttar Pradesh/N.K. Jat, R.S. Yadav, Sudhir Kumar and Krishna Kumar. 8. Trans-Gangetic plains: Punjab/C.S. Aulakh, S.S. Walia and R.S. Gill. 9. Eastern plateau and hills: Chhattisgarh/G.P. Pali, Shrikant Chitale, Shalu Abraham, Toshiba Pandagare and Harishankar. 10. Central plateau and hills: Madhya Pradesh/A.B. Singh, K. Ramesh, B.L. Lakaria, S. Ramana and J.K. Thakur. 11. Western plateau and hills : Maharashtra/Mangala Ghanabahadur. 12. Southern plateau and hills: (i) Tamil Nadu/S. Ramasamy. 13. Southern plateau and hills : (ii) Karnataka/H.B. Babalad, D.P. Biradar and R.K. Patil. 14. East coast plains and hills: Odisha/L.M. Garnayak, A.K. Patra, K.N. Mishra and S.K. Swain. 15. Western coastal plains and ghats : Kerala/V. Srinivasan, C.K. Thankamani, S. Hamza and John Zachariah T. 16. Gujarat plains and hills : Gujrat/R.S. Jat, M.V. Patel and K. Mevada. 17. Western dry zone: Rajastan/Arun K. Sharma. 18. Islands zone: Andaman and Nicobar Islands/A. Velmurugan, T.P. Swarnam, D.R. Singh and S. Dam Roy.
The organic farming is mainly aimed at supplementary and complementary approach to the existing production systems specially focused on niche crops and areas (5 to 10%) having low input use systems. Agro climatically India represents 15 major agro-climatic zones and 127 NARP zones. But the technologies for pursuing the organic production are scattered and not available at one place. Therefore, an attempt was made by the editors to synthesize the all available technologies and strategies with special reference to 15 agro-climatic zones of the country.
The first chapter of the book deals with general issues highlighting the status of organic farming in India specially the prospects, technologies and strategies in general and major concerns in particular. Chapter two and three deals with the status, prospects scope, strategies and technological evidences of organic farming in western Himalayan region involving Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand in particular with few references to Jammu and Kashmir state too. In chapter four, various concerns of organic farming with technological evidences and strategies are discussed with special reference to North Eastern States of India. The chapter five highlights the prospects, technologies and strategies of organic farming in West Bengal. In chapter six the organic farming related issues, prospects, technologies and strategies are discussed with special references to Bihar and some emphasis on Jharkhand and Eastern U.P. In chapter seven, the organic farming related issues, experimental evidences, technological advances and strategies are discussed in respect of upper Gangatic plain zone in general and western Uttar Pradesh in Particular.
