Sustainable Food Security
Contents: Preface. 1. Sustainable food security--emerging issues/T.K. Gill and S.K. Saini. 2. Watershed management for food security/M.A. Khan. 3. Farmer\'s participatory water management technologies for food security/A. Zaman and S.K. Patra. 4. Farmers training for sustainable agricultural development/Birendra Kumar. 5. Good agricultural practices and phyto-sanitation standards/Sukhen Chandra Das and T.N. Balamohan. 6. Extension systems for sustainable agriculture development/L.H. Hirevenkanagoudar and L.B. Singh. 7. Dairying--an income generating tool for sustainable food security/Avinash Singh and Arif A. Broadway. 8. Sustainability in tea industry--an Indian perspective/Ashim Kr. Das. 9. Indigenous vegetable based alternate food/S. Nirmala Devi, P.G. Sadhan Kumar and K.V. Peter. 10. Women empowerment/A.K. Singh, Pooja Sah and O.P. Mishra. 11. Empowering women through self help groups/Prabhjot Kaur, Kuldip Kumar and D.S. Dhillon. 12. Sustainable agricultural development through e-extension programme/M.C. Varshneya, Arun Patel and R.S. Parmar. 13. ICT based distance education programs for sustainable agricultural development/K. Vijayaraghavan. 14. Earthworm technology--a promising technique for second green revolution/Priyasankar Chaudhuri. 15. Soil health management in north east region/M. Datta and N.P. Singh. 16. Extension sub-systems for sustainable development in north east/M.J. Chandre Gowda. 17. ICT enable education for medicinal plants in north east region/Moumita Das. 18. Impact of system of rice intensification on food security in Tripura/Niranjan Sahoo and Raj Shree Verma. 19. Sustainable development of NTFP resources for food security/Asha Sharma, Shivani and Dvijendra K. Sharma. 20. Fodder cultivation and pasture management in Tripura/Chander Datt and N.P. Singh. 21. Agricultural residues for mushroom cultivation/Subrata Biswas and N.P. Singh. 22. Sustainable pineapple production in Tripura/Diganta Basu. 23. Marketable and marketed surplus of agricultural produce in Tripura/K.S. Chakraborty. 24. Sustainable agriculture production in Manipur/R.K. Imotomba, Deepak Kumar and N. Jyotsna. 25. Tuber crops for nutritional and economic security/Rajib Nath, Arup Chattopadhyay and Swapan Kumar Mukhopadhyay. 26. Performance evaluation of self help group/M.M. Adhikary. 27. Rainwater harvesting and management for food security/Mukesh Kumar and Ranvir Kumar. 28. Strategies for sustainable agricultural development/A.R. Trag, Mushtaq A. Wani, Shafiq A. Wani and F.A. Mattoo. 29. Empowerment of farmers through ICT interventions--a case study/Harekrishna Misra and B.N. Hiremath. 30. Cropping pattern, productivity and issues in sustainability in the char areas of Assam/Gorky Chakraborty. Index.
Sustainable physical, economical and social access to a balanced food for every citizen in developing country is a great challenge to policy planners, researchers and other stakeholders. Sustainable agriculture production and socio-economic empowerment of people are central focus of programmes and technologies implemented to achieve the sustainable food security. The book on Sustainable Food Security revolved around technologies of sustainable agriculture production and means of livelihood improvement particularly in north eastern region of India. The major topics covered in the book are concepts and problems of food security, interrelation of food security and sustainable agriculture production, technology transfer and extension systems, good agricultural practices, watershed management, dairying, indigenous alternate food, earthworm technology, soil health management, system of rice intensification, fodder cultivation and pasture management, use of residues, empowerment of women, self help groups, marketable and marketed surplus, management of rural value chain etc.
This book will be useful to researchers, academics, policy makes and other stakeholders who are involved in food security and sustainable agriculture production systems. (jacket)
Sustainable physical, economical and social access to a balanced food for every citizen in developing country is a great challenge to policy planners, researchers and other stakeholders. Sustainable agriculture production and socio-economic empowerment of people are central focus of programmes and technologies implemented to achieve the sustainable food security. The book on Sustainable Food Security revolved around technologies of sustainable agriculture production and means of livelihood improvement particularly in north eastern region of India. The major topics covered in the book are concepts and problems of food security, interrelation of food security and sustainable agriculture production, technology transfer and extension systems, good agricultural practices, watershed management, dairying, indigenous alternate food, earthworm technology, soil health management, system of rice intensification, fodder cultivation and pasture management, use of residues, empowerment of women, self help groups, marketable and marketed surplus, management of rural value chain etc.
This book will be useful to researchers, academics, policy makes and other stakeholders who are involved in food security and sustainable agriculture production systems. (jacket)
