Trends in Organic Farming in India

Contents: 1. Organic farming in India/S.S. Purohit. 2. Organic farming: concept, standards, accreditation, certification and inspection/Dushyent Gehlot. 3. Organic farming in India: prospects and challenges/T.C. Venkat Subramanian. 4. National project on organic farming: objective and strategy/P. Bhattacharyya, G. Chakraborti and J.P. Chaudhary. 5. Eco-organic farming/Thomas Abraham and S. Elamathi. 6. Spirituality, values and ethics in organic farming - an overview/Biswajit Mondal. 7. Diversified farming systems for sustainable agriculture/Pramod M. Chaudhari, Harshal E. Patil and Sanjay D. Patil. 8. Importance of organic farming/Ashish Kumar Dash and Mohima Prasad Behera. 9. Natural resources and crop nutrition/P.V.N. Prasad, R. Veeraraghavaiah and B. Venkateswarlu. 10. Scope of sustainable agriculture/Deep S. Nair and B.R. Reghunath. 11. Biodegradation of agricultural wastes/K.S. Thakur and D.K. Tamrakar. 12. Agnihotra farming/Anjali Pathak. 13. Role of earthworms in organic farming/A.A.K. Dosani, R.V. Dhopavkar, D.J. Dabke and S.C. Talashilkar. 14. Composting of organic wastes from Ayurvedic preparations using earthworms/D. Preetha and P.K. Sushama. 15. Composting - a process of waste material in to valuable material/T. Shanmuga Priya, R. Uma Devi, and T. Subbu Lakshmi. 16. Recycling of bio-degradable waste through vermicomposting/D.K. Tamrakar, Sanjeev Malaiya and Kapil Singh Thakur. 17. Oriculture - an unexplored realm of organic farming/Alphonsa Xavier and M.A. Haq. 18. Effective use of spent compost - vermicomposting/Deepika Sud and Shivani Sehgal. 19. Use of traditional additives for organic agriculture/W.S. Pawar. 20. Biofertilizer as supplementary source of plant nutrition/M. Vignesh, T. Selvakumar and M. Senthivelu. 21. Biofertilizers: a new avenue for entrepreneurs/V.B. Jha. 22. Mycorrhiza: for soil health and sustainable ecosystem/S.S. Purohit. 23. Biofertilizers for higher crop production/Ashish Kumar Dash and Mohima Prasad Behera. 24. Biofertilizers and conservation of biodiversity/Subbalakshmi Lokanadhan and S. Rajeswari. 25. Improvement of soil fertility with diazotrophs/C.D. Deokar and D.M. Sawant. 26. Azolla and its use as green manure in organic farming/M. Senthivelu, A.C. Surya Prabha and M. Vignesh. 27. Household processing of vermiculture / vermicompost/K.B. Burade and A.R. Chopade. 28. Management of soil fertility in model paddy field of Orissa/A.K. Panigrahi, T.R. Sahoo, H.S. Behera and N.K. Swain. 29. Economic and eco-friendly package of practices of Saurashtra region/Chetan D. Patel and Sameer K. Vadariya. 30. Panchagavya: spray for quality production of banana fruit/B.J. Pandian, Hannah Krujia Asangla and A. Selva Rani. 31. Biofertilizers for rice crop/H.D. Subashini, S. Malarvannan and P. Kumaran. 32. Biocontrol agents and natural plant products in disease management/Lekhu Gehlot, P.M. Singhvi and Dushyent Gehlot. 33. Biopesticides: a key element in organic agriculture/M. Senthivelu, A.C. Surya Prabha and M. Vignesh. 34. Neem as a potential biopesticide and soil conditioner/S.S. Purohit. 35. Fungi as source of biopesticides/U. Kumar and A. Noor. 36. Recent approaches of biological control of plant diseases with trichoderma/Subhendu Jash. 37. Bacteria as source of biopesticide/A. Bohra, A. Bohra Jr. and A. Noor. 38. Agricultural antibiotics from microbes/A. Bohra and U. Kumar. 39. Non pesticidal management of Helicoverpa Armigera in pigeonpea - a case study by KVK, Medak/V. Murali and M.R. Hegde. 40. Management of pest in cotton with organic farming/B. Raja. 41. Eco-friendly tools for weed management in rice and wheat/Dhiman Mukherjee. 42. Cultivation practices of organic turmeric and ginger in Neh region/S.K. Sarangi and L.C. De. 43. Conversion of farming system to organic in Western U.P./A. Rana and P. Bhardwaj. 44. Vermicomposting - the emerging business in Punjab/Adarsh Pal Vig and Arvinder Kaur. 45. Vermicompost: a potential natural resource in Kerala/P.K. Sushama, R. Gopinathan and C.J. Bindhu. 46. IPNMS - a promising tool for sustainable agriculture/M. Vignesh, T. Selvakumar and M. Senthivelu. 47. ITK used in organic agriculture/L.C. De and S.K. Sarangi. References.

"The concept of food quality has changed dramatically in the recent years. It now refers not only to the characteristics of the final product, but also to the way in which it is produced, processed and transported. Consumers in developed and developing countries have now become more health conscious and they have started spending in natural food materials. This is because of the day by day, increasing use of various synthetically produced chemical fertilizers and disease control measures in agricultural practices, those are not only adversely affecting the natural resources and soil fertility but also the health of human beings. This gravity of depleting soil health and environmental hazardous has drawn the attention of scientists and policy makers to find out a way for sustainable and eco-friendly farming system in the various agro climatic conditions world wide, keeping in the view, the needs of the present and future generations.

In the view of resurgence of interest in alternate agriculture in recent years, organic farming has been considered to be a viable option in most of the countries. Organic farming is a production system that avoids or largely excludes the use of synthetically produced agricultural inputs like fertilizers, pesticides, growth regulators, live stock feed additives etc.

In the context of increasing importance of organic farming, various trends regarding production of various organic inputs and their usages etc., are flashing here and there. Thus, with the aim to bring various flashing trends related to organic farming, this book "Trends in organic farming" is compiled. This book contains comprehensive matters related to concept, components, and tools, popular package of practices, plant protection measures, and success stories of organic farming. The contributors of this book are renowned resource persons of the field, hence, and attempt have been made to bring brainstorming ideas about organic farming." (jacket)