Sustainable Management of Soil and Environment
Fertilizers have been used extensively around the globe since the Green Revolution, due to the high subsidies. However, extensive fertilizer use exacerbates soil degradation and causes yield stagnation, and as a result threatens food security and soil sus
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tainable Management of Soil and Environment
Sustainable Management of Soil and Environment
Ram Swaroop Meena • Sandeep Kumar Jitendra Singh Bohra • Mangi Lal Jat Editors
Sustainable Management of Soil and Environment
Editors Ram Swaroop Meena Department of Agronomy Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Sandeep Kumar Department of Agronomy Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, India
Jitendra Singh Bohra Department of Agronomy Institute of Agricultural Sciences, BHU Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Mangi Lal Jat International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) New Delhi, India
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Contents
1 Soil and Environmental Management���������������������������������������������������� 1 Sathiya Bama Kaliappan, Yazhini Gunasekaran, R. Smyrna, and Ram Swaroop Meena 2 Strategies to Practice Climate-Smart Agriculture to Improve the Livelihoods Under the Rice-Wheat Cropping System in South Asia�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 29 Rajan Bhatt, Ramanjit Kaur, and Amlan Ghosh 3 Soil Erosion and Management Strategies���������������������������������������������� 73 Shakeel Ahmad Bhat, Mehraj U. Din Dar, and Ram Swaroop Meena 4 Conservation Agriculture: Perspectives on Soil and Environmental Management in Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia�������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 123 Rakesh Kumar, Kirti Saur
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