Trends in Agriculture: Traditional and Modern Approaches

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. The Scenario of Demographics and Journey of Agriculture/Isha Sharma and G. S. Rajwar. 2. Organic Manure: A Potential Approach for Sustainability of Hill Agro-Ecosystem/Akshat Uniyal and N. S. Bisht. 3. Traditional Knowledge of Herbal Medicines Revisited: A Holistic Approach for Future Healthcare/Sheetal Pandey and Akshat Uniyal. 4. Traditional Agricultural Practices: A Preview into Record/Madhu Raina, Romica Verma and Bharat Bhushan. 5. Traditional Farming: An Indigenous Approach for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security/Anju Joshi1 and Mamta Pujari. 6. Cyanobacteria: An Inevitable Bioagent for Sustainable Agriculture/Bharat Bhushan, Arun K. Khajuria and Madhu Raina. 7. Organic Farming and Biochar/Akshit Kukreti, Neelam Kurmanchali and Laxmi Rawat. 8. Reviewing the Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on Agronomy and its Mitigation by Adopting Climate-Smart Technologies/Sheetal Pandey and Dev R. Badri. 9. Bamboo: A Potential Source of Food Under Changing Climatic Condition/Brajkishor Prajapati, Sunil Kumar, Murlidhar Ingle, Avikal Kumar, Gangadhar Nanda, Amrendra Kumar, Aminuddin Qureshi and Chainu Ram Netam. 10. Assessment of Effective Water Management Systems Over Traditional Irrigation Practices/Priyanka Uniyal and Anupama Singh. 11. Assessment of Biomass and Carbon Stock along Altitudes in Traditional Agroforestry System in Tehri District of Uttarakhand, India/K. K. Vikrant, D. S. Chauhan and R. H. Rizvi. 12. Tal (Borassus flabellifer Linn.) Plant for the Livelihood and Sustainability of Rural India/Shyam Chandra Ghosh. 13. Sustainable Agriculture: Its Indicators and Effects on Agriculture/Rohitashv Nagar, Krishan K. Singh, Rakesh Meena, Deepak Nagar and S. K. Trivedi. 14. Approaches to Relieve a Worldwide Global Warming through Agriculture/Krishan K. Singh, Rakesh K. Meena, Shiv P. Singh and J. S. Chauhan. 15. Need and Type of Agricultural Drainage in Modern Time/Ravi Kumar Mahour. 16. Advanced Production Technology of Kiwifruit Under Temperate Region/Rakesh K. Meena and Krishan K. Singh. 17. Seabuckthorn: An Emerging Horticultural Crop of India/Nivedita Sharma. 18. Assessment of Biodiversity Loss and Sustainability due to Urbanization/Shiv P. Singh, Krishan K. Singh and Beena Kumari. Index.

This book has been designed to enquire about the various aspects of agronomy. However, agronomy is the collection of various fields’ viz., floriculture, horticulture, olericulture, seed science, soil science etc. Moreover, we tried our best to insight the journey of agriculture since evolution, practices used in ancient India and modern India, sustainable agriculture, application of cyanobacteria in agriculture, cultivation of fruits, medicinal plants, organic amendments in agriculture and other useful plants and effects of climate change on agronomy. The book comprises 18 chapters covering almost every aspect of agriculture contributed by several researchers and faculties from various fields. Each chapter starts with an introduction to the issue, illustrating it, stating the effects of the issue and remedial measures, where appropriate, to achieve set goals of agronomy.