Engineering Interventions for Sustainable Agriculture

Contents: Foreword. Preface.  1. Agricultural engineering interventions for sustainable organic farming/P.K. Srivastava. 2. Light weight power tiller and improved farm equipment for hill agriculture/N.S. Chauhan. 3. Renewable energy technologies for sustainable agriculture/Mahendra S. Seveda. 4. Water harvesting: methods and estimation/Vanita Pandey. 5. Effect of rainfall variability on sustainable agriculture/Deepak Jhajharia. 6. Planning roof top rain water harvesting system/B.C. Kusre. 7. Use of engineering techniques for improving water productivity in hill agriculture/G.T. Patle. 8. Some engineering measures or rejuvenate springs/A.K. Vashisht. 9. Improved agricultural processing equipment and technologies/Basant Kumar Singh. 10. Post harvest management of litchi/P.P. Said. 11. Crop planning in agriculture crops for optimum water utilization/A.B. Sherpa. 12. Impact of climate change regime on plant disease scenario/Diganggana Talukdar. 13. Mitigation of methane emission from rice cultivation/Birendrajit Singh. 14. Impact of climate change on seedling and reproductive stage of maize crops in North-East Inda/M. Sanju Singh. 15. Climate change effect on orchids/Mahendra S. Seveda. 16. High value flower cultivation and market potential in North Eastern region of India/D. Barman. Index.

This book gives a wide description on engineering interventions for sustainable agriculture. This book includes relevant information on need of engineering interventions for sustainable organic agriculture, improved farm equipment and power tillers, renewable energy technologies, water harvesting methods, effect of rainfall variability on sustainable agriculture, planning of roof top water harvesting system, spring and streams, improved agricultural processing equipment and technologies, crop planning in agriculture crops for optimum water utilization and impact of climate change on agriculture.