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urces Use Efficiency in Agriculture

Resources Use Efficiency in Agriculture

Sandeep Kumar • Ram Swaroop Meena • Manoj Kumar Jhariya Editors

Resources Use Efficiency in Agriculture

Editors Sandeep Kumar Division of Crop Production ICAR-Indian Institute of Pulse Research Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

Ram Swaroop Meena Department of Agronomy Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Manoj Kumar Jhariya Department of Farm Forestry Sant Gahira Guru Vishwavidyalaya Ambikapur, Chhattisgarh, India

ISBN 978-981-15-6952-4 ISBN 978-981-15-6953-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6953-1

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Preface

Soil, water, energy, nutrients, solar radiation, and air are important natural resources needed for agriculture and to sustain the life of all living organisms on the planet. The overexploitation of the infinitive resources by humans is an alarming issue for the farming and scientific community, policymakers, and administrators to manage them efficiently to sustain food, nutrition, water, environmental and economic security. The scientific management of natural resources in agriculture to enhance use efficiency for a sustainable future is a need of an hour. This book is concentrated on the management decision, questions and answers on the agronomic problems, soil health and nutrient problems, climate change, to make the production system more efficient and sustainable. The application and management of inputs as per the need with right amount, right time, right way and from