Nutrient Dynamics for Sustainable Crop Production

The cropping system is one of the important components of sustainable agriculture, since it provides more efficient nutrient cycling. As such, balanced fertilization must be based on the concept of sustainable crop production. Feeding the rapidly growing

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Nutrient Dynamics for Sustainable Crop Production

Nutrient Dynamics for Sustainable Crop Production

Ram Swaroop Meena Editor

Nutrient Dynamics for Sustainable Crop Production

Editor Ram Swaroop Meena Department of Agronomy Institute of Agricultural Sciences (BHU) Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Contents

1 Soil Carbon Sequestration in Crop Production��������������������������������������   1 Ram Swaroop Meena, Sandeep Kumar, and Gulab Singh Yadav 2 Soil Quality for Sustainable Agriculture��������������������������������������������������  41 Duraisamy Vasu, Pramod Tiwary, Padikkal Chandran, and Surendra Kumar Singh 3 Integrated Nutrient Management for Sustainable Crop Production and Improving Soil Health������������������������������������������  67 Rajinder Singh Antil and Dev Raj 4 Management of Micronutrients in Soil for the Nutritional Security ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 103 Dileep Kumar, K. P. Patel, V. P. Ramani, A. K. Shukla, and Ram Swaroop Meena 5 Nitrogen Footprint: A Useful Indicator of Agricultural Sustainability���������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 135 Sangita Mohanty, Chinmaya Kumar Swain, Anjani Kumar, and A. K. Nayak 6 Strategies for Identification of Genes Toward Enhancing Nitrogen Utilization Efficiency in Cereals ���������������������������������������������� 157 Alka Bharati and Pranab Kumar Mandal 7 Improvi