Upland Rice in India

Contents: Foreword. Preface. 1. Upland rice in Arunachal Pradesh/Arvind K. Rai, Ranjay K. Singh and Rakesh Bhardwaj. 2. Upland rice in Assam/S.K. Rautaray. 3. Upland rice in Bihar/S.B. Mishra, Ashok K. Singh and R.K. Singh. 4. Upland rice in Chhattisgarh/V.K. Singh, A.K. Singh and Amit Kumar Sinha. 5. Upland rice in Gujarat/A.R. Pathak, Atul M. Mehta, R.D. Vashi, D.B. Parmar, N.P. Mandal, R.K. Singh and Anantha M.S. 6. Upland rice in Himachal Pradesh/B.S. Mankotia, P.K. Sharma, J. Shekhar, G.K. Sood and R.C. Thakur. 7. Upland rice in Jammu and Kashmir/Anil Kumar and Sanjay Arora. 8. Upland rice in Jharkhand/N.P. Mandal, Anantha M.S., R.K. Singh and M. Variar. 9. Upland rice in Karnataka/N.G. Hanamaratti, P.M. Salimath, Y.G. Shadakshari, M.S. Anantha and H.E. Shashidhar. 10. Upland rice in Kerala/Geethakumari V.L., Leena Kumary S. Jayakrishnakumar V. Mini G. and Renjini P.R. 11. Upland rice in Madhya Pradesh/P. Perraju, A.K. Gupta, A.K. Singh, G. Jha and R.P. Singh. 12. Upland rice in Maharashtra/A.N. Deshpande, Y.J. Patil and S.B. Choulwa. 13. Upland rice in Manipur/L. Nabachandra Singh and Angad Prasad. 14. Upland rice in Meghalaya/Patiram Rajesh Kumar and Brajendra. 15. Upland rice in Mizoram/A.K. Vishwakarma, Brajendra and K.A. Pathak. 16. Upland rice in Nagaland/Sanjay Singh Rathore. 17. Upland rice in Orissa/Sabyasachi Rath, Nimai Charan Mishra and Somanath Panda. 18. Upland rice in Rajasthan/Rajesh Pandya, R.S. Tripathi and S.K. Kaushik. 19. Upland rice in Tamil Nadu/P. Jeyaprakash and S. Mahendran. 20. Upland rice in Tripura/N.P. Singh, K. Chattopadhyay and S.P. Das. 21. Upland rice in Uttarakhand/H.N. Singh, Sanjay Singh and R.K. Singh. 22. Upland rice in Uttar Pradesh/Sanjay Singh, A.K. Singh, R.K. Rai, R.R. Singh and R.K. Singh. 23. Upland rice in West Bengal/S.B. Goswami and Biswapati Mandal.

This book presents a comprehensive account of upland rice cultivation in different states of India. Upland rice system is considered as most diverse of all rice systems and each states of the country grow different varieties under a range of management conditions and cropping patterns. The 23 chapters in the book consolidate and share the knowledge on rainfed upland rice cultivation practiced in different states. It analyzes the upland rice agro ecosystem in different states and encompasses various aspects of integrated nutrient management pest management varieties available and newer technologies introduced for adoption by farmers to improve the productivity of this fragile ecosystem.