Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Vol. 1
How to achieve sustainable agricultural production without compromising environmental quality, agro-ecosystem function and biodiversity is a serious consideration in current agricultural practices. Farming systems’ growing dependency on chemical inputs (f
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robial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Vol. 1: Research Perspectives
Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity
Dhananjaya Pratap Singh Harikesh Bahadur Singh • Ratna Prabha Editors
Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agricultural Productivity Vol. 1: Research Perspectives
Editors Dhananjaya Pratap Singh ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms Maunath Bhanjan, UP, India Ratna Prabha ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms Maunath Bhanjan, UP, India
Harikesh Bahadur Singh Department of Mycology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, UP, India
ISBN 978-81-322-2645-1 ISBN 978-81-322-2647-5 DOI 10.1007/978-81-322-2647-5
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Foreword
Sustainable agriculture without bargaining environmental quality is among a global concern. In the era of hugely applied chemical inputs (fertilizers, nutrients and pesticides etc.) in farming systems, serious threats are being observed on the reduced crop productivity and nutritional quality, decline in soil fertility, resistance among pests and phytopathogens, contamination of agroecosystem with over and above health problems for humans and animals. Since last few decades, viable biological options based on the basic principles of environmental protection and ecological sustenance have been widely worked out to minimize the threats of huge chemicalization in agricultural systems. Agriculturally important microorganisms have been found to have vast potential to minimize the ecological threats arising due to chemical inputs in soils and crops. Inoculation of a number of microbial strains in agriculture as soil or seed
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