Advanced Principles and Practices of Agronomy (Paperback)

Indian agriculture has entered into the era of globalization. Various corporate bodies are launching exportable value added processed food products agro-industries in all most all the states. Side by side the demand for more production of quality agricultural products as raw materials will also be in the nation's interest to maintain strong and viable agro-techniques, not only for economic reasons, but also for ecological and social reasons as well. Huge investments are also pouring into organized retailing system. A number of large and reputed Indian and also for eign corporate bodies have already smelling opportunities and some of them already have entered this emerging and burgeoning business.

At this juncture, this text book entitled, "ADVANCED PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES OF AGRONOMY", has been written to take account of these developments. More emphasis has been laid upon sustainable agronomic practices in describing usage of plant nutrients, irrigation water and herbicides; dryland farming and watershed management; conservation tillage and other aspects of soil management etc. so as to avoid environmental implications under intensive cropping system.