Commercial Agriculture
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Insight into commercial agriculture. 1. Commercial Agriculture – An Overivew/S.K. Saini, Amit Bhatnagar and Shweta. 2. Green Revolution – Approach, Implication and Impact/V.K. Singh. 3. Commercial Agriculture in Farmer’s Perspective/Subhash Chandra, Gurvinder Singh and Anchal Dass. II. Mechanization for Breaking Barriers. 4. Farm Mechanization in Commercial Agriculture/T.C. Thakur. III. Production Management Agro-Techniques. 5. Tools for identification of efficient cropping systems for commercialization/B. Gangwar. 6. Efficient cropping systems for commercialization in selected zones of india/B. Gangwar. 7. Non-Monetary inputs management in commercial crop production/Anand Prakash. 8. Crop diversification towards commercial agriculture/Badrul Hassan and Tahir Ahmad Sheikh. 9. Farming system approach: Its principles and role towards sustainability/M.S. Gill. 10. Crop diversification for profitability in jute and allied fibre crops/M.K. Sinha, Sabyasachi Mitra, T. Ramasubramanian and B.S. Mahapatra. IV. Balancing Nutrition. 11. Integrated Nutrient Management – A Need for sustainable commercial production/A.S. Chandel. 12. Organic farming for sustainable agriculture: Global and Indian perspective/B.S. Mahapatra, T. Ramasubramanian and H. Chowdhury. 13. Commercial application of organic farming/D.K. Singh. V. Managing water : The Vital Input. 14. On-Farm water management – issues, problems and strategies/Subhash Chandra, Anchal Dass and Gurvinder Singh. 15. Hydroponics Agriculture: Status, Scope and Limitations/Renu Pandey, Vanita Jain and K.P. Singh. VI. Combating Pests: Weeds, Insects. 16. Strategies for cost effective weed management/S.S.L. Tripathi. 17. Strategies for cost effective insect management/S.N. Tiwari. 18. Novel indicators to assess the impact of pesticides on environment/Sumitra Arora. 19. Management of crop pests through indigenous technical knowledge(ITKs)/A.K. Kanojia. 20. De-contamination Methods for pesticide use in commercial agriculture/Sumitra Arora. 21. Agronomic Practices for Management of Insect-pests in Sugarcane/Rajender Kumar and Smriti Sharma. VI. Resource Conservation. 22. Resource conservation in relation to commercial agriculture/V. Pratap Singh and Neeta Tripathi. 23. Scope, Status and Limitations of Protected Farming/P.K. Singh. VII. Alternate Agro-Enterprises. 24. Horticulture scenario in India/J.P. Tiwari. 25. Agroforestry as an Alternate land use system/Rajesh Kaushal, Salil Tewari and Sumit Chaturvedi. 26. Exploitation of plantation crops for commercial use/B.C. Saini. 27. Scope of floriculture in commercial agriculture/Ajit Kumar Kapoor. 28. Commercialization of Mushroom farming/K.P.S. Kushwaha. VIII. Live-stock based farming systems. 29. Cattle farm Management/Sanjay Kumar. 30. Farm scale management of poultry/R.K. Sharma. 31. Income Augmentation through rearing small ruminants/D.V. Singh. 32. Feed and Fodder Management for commercial livestock production/S.K. Singh and Jyoti Palod. IX. Harnessing Advanced Technologies. 33. Precision in Commercial agriculture/Rajeev Kumar, Vineeta and Ramphool Punia. 34. Advances in Production of quality planting material/Virendra Singh. 35. Nanotechnology in commercial agriculture/Rajeev Kumar. 36. Crop Production using GIS and GPS tools for sustainable agriculture/A.K. kanojia. X. Promoting Agro-Industry. 37. Agro-Industrial development in India/V.P.S. Arora. 38. Industrial Utilization of Sugar Crops/R.S. Verma. XI. Socio-Economic and Climatic Facets. 39. Socio-economic and Policy issues in relation to commercial agriculture/Jagdish Kumar. 40. Agroforestry for socio-economic and environmental sustainability/O.P.S. Bana. 41. Climate change and agriculture. A.S. Nain.
This book contains forty one chapters which have further been grouped into twelve thematic areas (Insight into commercial agricultural, Mechanization for breading barriers, Production management agro techniques, Balancing nutrition, Managing water the vital input, Combating pests, weeds and insects, Resource conservation, Alternate agro-enterprises, Livestock based farming systems, Harnessing advanced technologies, Promoting agro-industry and Socio-economic and climatic facets for systematic and easy understanding of the subject. Through this book, the authors have made sincere efforts to put forth the upcoming agricultural scenario and management techniques from its commercial view point. It is our belief that this book will prove worthy to policy makers, planners, researchers, teachers, students, development agencies, NGOs, and entrepreneurs.
