Research Techniques in Agronomy

Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. Agricultural research in India. 3. Types, levels and methods of research. 4. Basic concepts and measurement of data. 5. Experimental designs. 6. Transformation of data and missing plot technique. 7. Correlation and regression. 8. Crop response curves, response surfaces, crop modelling. 9. Biometric observations and other ancillary data collection. 10. Economic and energy analysis.11. Preparation of scientific papers.12. Presentation in seminar/symposium/conference/workshop. 13. Thesis writing. 14. Software in agricultural research. 15. Research project proposal, format and screening. 16. Ethical issues in agronomic research.

Efficient designs are used by the agricultural researchers in conducting their experiments and analysing the data from designed experiments. There has been a lack of comprehensive textbooks on Research techniques in Agronomy suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students. This book has been written in accordance with the new course on “Experimental Techniques in Agronomy” as proposed by National Core Group (NCG), constituted by ICAR to cope up with fast changing national and international scenario.