Conservation of Natural Resources for Food and Environmental Security

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Status of natural resources: 1. Status of natural resources for food and environmental security in Central India/V.N. Sharda. 2. Soil health is the health and wealth of the nation and its productivity is Nation's wealth reserve/R.N. Gupta. 3. Assessment of wastelands/degraded lands in central India using remote sensing and G.I.S. techniques with special reference to Uttar Pradesh/Alok Mathur. 4. Diatomological analysis of water bodies of Semi arid region of Central India/Meenakshi Singh, Payal Lodha, G.P. Singh and Rajesh Singh. 5. Assessment of permissible soil erosion limits for different landscapes of Chhattisgarh in India/Brij Lal Lakaria, H. Biswas and D. Mandal. 6. Mapping gullied wastelands along Gomti river in Uttar Pradesh using IRS LISS III data/Alok Mathur, S. Chandra, M. Mishra, R.S. Rawat and A.R. Siddiqui. 7. Analysis of rainfall for crop planning in Bundelkhand zone of Uttar Pradesh/Mukesh Chand, Dushyant Kumar, Dhananjai Singh Nishi Roy and D.K. Singh. II. Management and efficient utilization of water resources: 8. A decision support tool to explore and promote conjuctive use options in canal command/A. Upadhyaya, A.K. Sikka, A.K. Singh and P.R. Bhatnagar. 9. Ground water quality for irrigation in Datia District Madhya Pradesh: an assessment/H. Biswas, P.P. Adhikary, S.P. Tiwari and Sant Raj. 10. Economic water productivity of drum kit drip irrigation systems for vegetable production/S.S. Mali and S. Kumar. 11. Groundwater use efficiency and price equilibrium of groundwater use in central plain zone of Uttar Pradesh/S.K. Srivastava, Ranjit Kumar and R.P. Singh. 12. Participatory action research for irrigation water management in sugarcane cultivation/D.V. Yadav, R.P. Verma, Kamta Prasad, A.K. Sah Rajendra Gupta and K.P. Singh. III. Conservation technologies for food and environmental security: 13. Agro forestry practices in Central India: prospects and potentials/R.K. Dubey and S.K. Dubey. 14. Measures for enhancing crop productivity and resource use efficiency in rainfed vertisols of Madhya Pradesh/S.S. Tomar and S.K. Sharma. 15. Agri horti system for sustainable production on degraded lands in Semi arid tropics/Om Prakash, R.K. Dubey and J.S. Deshwal. 16. Nutrient uptake of tomato F1 Hybrid Avinash 2 as affected by irrigated methods and micronutrients/B. Agrawal, A. Shrivastava, N.K. Toorray and R.N. Sharma. 17. Impact of long term fertilizer and manure use on crop productivity and soil fertility in rice rice cropping system in contrast soils/R.H. Wanjari and Muneshwar Singh. 18. Edaphic constraints vis-a-vis conservation practices for increasing productivity of rainfed lands in Bundelkhand region/S.P. Tiwari, Dev Narayan and H. Biswas. 19. Sustainable crop production through efficient nutrient management and other agro-techniques a review/Om Singh. 20. Food legumes in cropping systems for resources conservation food and environment security: challenges and opportunities/V.S. Lather, R.S. Pannu, D.P. Nandal and Ishwar Singh. IV. Livelihood security and watershed management: 21. Land use planning and watershed management for livelihood security/J.S. Bali. 22. Sustainable management of cropping systems in Central Indian for food and environmental security/P.K. Panda, S.K. Dubey and A.K. Singh. 23. Impact evaluation of soil and water conservation measures in tribal area of District Satna, M.P./V.P. Singh, V.K. Kanaujia and S.N. Singh. 24. Assessing the impact of water management in Bareilly District of Uttar Pradesh/Pankaj Sharma, R.K. Singh and Kapil. 25. Role of Sugarcane in sustaining soil health in rice-wheat sequence in Indo-Gangetic plains/G.K. Singh and D.V. Yadav. V. Rehabilitation of problem lands, Salins, Alkali Ravines, Riveine Lands, Diava land etc: 26. Rehabilitation of problem lands: challenges and opportunities/J.C. Dagar, P.S. Minhas and Gurbachan Singh.27. Land degradation in Central India: the concern of sustainable food security/S.K. Dubey and R.K. Dubey. 28. Soybean based intercropping system for sustainable production under rainfed condition in Bundelkhand region/Dev Narayan and H. Biswas.  29. Watershed based reclamation and control of Chambal ravines/G.P. Verma, Y.P. Singh and S.K. Dubey. 30. Deriving homogeneous land Unit through GIS by integrating biophysical and socioeconomic aspects of Karnal District/D. Barman, R.N. Sahoo, N. Kalra, K. Kamble and D. Chakraborty. 31. Evaluation of integrated resource management and planting time on yield and water expense efficiency WEE of rice Oryza sativa/Abdhesh K. Singh and N.K. Verma. 32. On farm participatory trials on deep tillage and soil amendments to assess their effect on soil properties and yield of pearlmillet wheat grown on sodic soil/Y.P. Singh and Sudhir Singh. VI.  Governance and policy issues for community empowerment: 33. Resource conservation for food and environmental security in Central India/P.D. Sharma and P.P. Biswas. 34. Governance and policy issues for community empowerment/Krishna Srinath and H.K. Dash. 35. Capacity building of farmwomen for management of natural resources for sustainable livelihood/Suman Agarwal and Harapriya Nayak. 36. Spatial data base for NREGS and conservation of natural resources/S.K. Saha, P. Laghate, R.K. Sharma and S.N. Das. 37. Lac integrated agriculture: means for efficient resource utilization/R.K. Singh, R. Ramani and Bangali Baboo. VII. Regional experiences and future thrust: 38. Hydrologic continuum in a watershed that promotes conjunctive use of rain water for attaining food livelihood and environmental security/D.C. Das. 39. Experiences of watershed development programme in central Indian: success stories and probable ways for further up scaling/V.S. Tomar. 40. Efficient moisture conservation and fertilizer practices for profitable productivity of Pearl Millet under Semi Arid inceptisols/S.P. Singh, G.R. Maruthi Sankar, P.K. Mishra and P.K. Singh. 41. Drought management through water harvesting systems and contingency crop planning/J. Somasundaram, K. Ramesh, Brij Lal Lakaria R.S. Chaudhary and A. Subba Rao. 42. Information receiving behaviour of farmers of watershed and non watershed areas in Bundelkhand region/Om Prakash and V.S. Katiyar. 43. Effect of fertilizer doses methods of nitrogen application and moisture conservation practices on Pearl Millet under rainfed condition/S. Kumar, H.P. Chaudhary, P.N. Yadav, U.D. Awasthi and H. Kumar.