The Complete Book on Organic Farming and Production of Organic Compost (2nd Revised Edition)
Contents: 1. Introduction to organic farming. 2. Sustainable agriculture and organic farming. 3. Concepts, definition and components. 4. Organic manures, their nature and characteristics. 5. Livestock and human wastes. 6. Available organic materials and plant nutrients. 7. Organic farming in rice. 8. Production of organic compost. 9. Effect of organic fertilizers in pongamia pinnata. 10. Organic fertilizer: a supplementary nutrient source for sugarcane. 11. Effect of organic fertilizer on sorghum. 12. Significance of azospirillum and pseudomontas on growth of elucine crocana. 13. Biomass production of acacia nilotica. 14. Chemical composition of banana. 15. N-fixing and phosphate solubilizing bacteria. 16. Asymbiotic organic fertilizers of kharif sorghum. 17. Effect of azospirillum and phosphate solubilizing culture on quality of sugarcane. 18. Organic nutrient. 19. Industrial wastes as sources of plant nutrients. 20. Use of bio-inoculants for recycling of banana wastes. 21. Role of organic fertilizer in upland crop production. 22. Varieties for organic farming. 23. Biological suppression of aquatic weeds. 24. Weed management in organic rice. 25. Processing and value addition of organic rice. 26. Biotechnological approach in organic rice farming. 27. Crop rotation and residue recycling in organic rice production. 28. Biological nitrogen fixation. 29. Weed management in organic farming. 30. Pest management in organic farming. 31. BIS specifications. 32. Machinery and equipment. 33. Plant layout and process flow sheet.
