Overview
The book's chapters have been carefully organized to guide students through the full range of rainfed agriculture, with relevant examples and diagrams provided to illustrate key concepts. The topics covered are highly pertinent given the growing interest in rainfed agriculture technologies. The content focuses on innovative approaches to managing dryland and rainfed lands, including an introduction to rainfed farming, its characteristics, distribution, and associated challenges. Additionally, the management of rainfed crops, water harvesting and moisture conservation, the use of mulches and antitranspirants, principles of intercropping, watershed resource management, drought management, soil erosion, stress physiology, and the potential for agro-horticulture, agro-forestry, and silvi-pasture in dryland agriculture are all explored in depth.
Full Product Details
Author: R.K. Nanwal , G.A. Rajanna
Publisher: New India Publishing Agency
Imprint: New India Publishing Agency
Edition: Large type / large print edition
Dimensions:
Width: 2.50cm
, Height: 22.90cm
, Length: 15.20cm
Weight: 0.730kg
ISBN: 9789386546043
ISBN 10: 9386546043
Pages: 348
Publication Date: 19 June 2017
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print 
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Table of Contents
1. Rainfed farming: introduction, characteristics, distribution and problems 2. Efficient management of rainfed crops, contingent crop planning for aberrant weather situations 3. Management of rainfed crops; Choice of crops and varieties; Planting methods under low rainfall conditions 4. Water harvesting and moisture conservation; Study of mulches and antitranspirants 5. Principles of Intercropping; cropping systems/intercropping systems in rainfed agriculture; mulches and antitranspirants 6. Concept of watershed resource management, problems, approach and components 7. Drought and its management 8. Land use capability classification, Scope of agro-horticultural, agro-forestry and silvi-pasture in dryland agriculture 9. Tillage, tilth, frequency and depth of cultivation, compaction in soil tillage; concept of conservation tillage 10. Soil erosion: Definition, nature and extent of erosion, types of erosion and factors affecting soil erosion 11. Drainage considerations and agronomic management; rehabilitation of abandoned jhum lands and measures to prevent soil erosion 12. Stress physiology: mitigating stress in dryland area 13. Tools and implements used in dryland agriculture 14. Collection of biometric data of rainfed crops and its interpretation
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R.K. Nanwal, Professor, Department of Agronomy, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hissar, Haryana, India. G.A. Rajanna, Scientist, Department of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, IARI-PUSA, New Delhi 110 012, India.
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