Sustainable Farming
Contents: 1. Basic Elements of Sustainable Agriculture/Pabitra Adhikary, Partha Sarathi Patra, Shyamal Kheroar Amrit Tamang and Rajesh Saha. 2. Farming System and Sustainable Agriculture/Shyamal Kheroar, Partha Sarathi Patra and Pabitra Adhikary. 3. Basics of Vermicomposting: A Viable Technology for Rural Livelihood/Bappa Paramanik, Parimal Panda, Indranil Das, Arindam Kundu Asit Mandal and Ashok Choudhury. 4. A Low Cost Aquatic Green Manure for Agricultural Crops (Azolla)/Bappa Paramanik, Parimal Panda, Partha Sarathi Patra, Indranil Das Naba Kishore Mahato, Ashok Choudhury and Asit Mandal. 5. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria (PGPR): Prospects for New Inoculants/Parimal Panda, Bappa Paramanik, Partha Sarathi Patra, Bisweswar Mahato, Ranajit Panda, Indranil Das, Kausik Mandal and Ashok Choudhury. 6. Sustainable Water Management/Pabitra Adhikary, Partha Sarathi Patra, Shyamal Kheroar Amrit Tamang and Subhra Shil. 7. Soil Management Vis-a-Vis Production Sustainability Blooming Animal and Human Health/Amrit Tamang, Partha Sarathi Patra, Sagar Tamang Hriday Komal Tarafdar, Tarik Mitran, Nirmalendu Basak and Ashok Choudhury. 8. Sustainable Biodiversity Management/Lakshmi Hijam, Moumita Chakraborty, Rocky Thokchom and Suvendu Kumar Roy. 9. Agroforestry as a Tool for Biodiversity Conservation, Carbon Sequestration and Sustainable Livelihood Development/Nazir A. Pala, Abha Manohar K, Biplov C. Sarkar, Megna Rashid Vineeta and Sumit Chakravarty. 10. Organic Waste Management/Pabitra Adhikary, Partha Sarathi Patra, Arju Sayed Ahmed Subhra Shil and Rajesh Saha. 11. IPM: An Eco-Friendly Approach for Pest Management/Biswajit Patra and Biplab Tudu. 12. Sustainable Plant Disease Management/Sibdas Baskey and Satyajit Hembram. 13. Sustainable Weed Management/Partha Sarathi Patra, Pabitra Adhikary, Shyamal Kheroar Bratati Kanjilal and Subhra Shil. 14. Sustainable Livestock Farming/Dilip Kumar Hajra and Nonigopal Shit. 15. Extension Management for Sustainable Agriculture/K. Pradhan. 16. Sustainable Horticulture/Subhra Shil and Pabitra Adhikary.
In the recent era, the ability to future generation to produce food and enjoy productivity decreases in a faster rate due to the depletion of the natural resource base through high external input based agriculture. It is believed that, the decline of ancient civilizations in Mesopotamia, the Mediterranean region, Pre-Columbian southwest U.S. and Central America is strongly influenced by natural resource degradation from non-sustainable farming and forestry practices. In this backdrop the sustainable agriculture is utilizing the existing natural resource base and low external input for regenerating the productive capacity of the same along with the minimization of harmful impacts on ecosystems.
