Ending hunger, achieving food security and promoting sustainable development are at the top of the list of United Nations (UN) sustainable global development priorities. In the times of high population growth and increasing pressure of agricultural systems, efficiency in use of natural resources has been at the epicenter of sustainable agricultural. The concept of ‘Input efficiency’ implies production of high quantity and quality of food, from using only finite natural resources as inputs, in the form of mainly land, water, nutrients, energy, or biological diversity. In this book, editors provide a roadmap to the food, nutritional, and environmental security in the agricultural systems. They share insight into the approaches that can be put in practice for increasing the input use efficiency in the cropping systems and achieve stability and sustainability of agricultural production systems. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, climate change scientists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and graduate students of agriculture, agroforestry, agroecology, and environmental sciences. National and international agricultural scientists, policymakers will also find this to be a useful read.
Table of Content
Chapter 1. Input Use Efficiency in Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems to Manage the Footprints for Food and Environmental Security.- Chapter 2. Agricultural Input Use Efficiency and Climate Change – Ways to Improve the Environment and Food Security.- Chapter 3. Smart and Efficient Technological intervtion and Ecosystems Services in Rice-Wheat System for Food and Environmental Security.- Chapter 4. Use of Agrochemicals in Agriculture: Alarming Issues and Solutions.- Chapter 5. Agronomic Strategies for Improving Micronutrient Use Efficiency in Crops for Nutritional and Food Security.- Chapter 6. Advances in Input Management for Food and Environmental Security.- Chapter 7. Reduction of Energy Consumption in Agriculture for Sustainable Green Future.- Chapter 8. C Farming: for Climate Smart Agriculture and Environmental Security.- Chapter 9. Judicious Soil Management for Having Improved Physical Properties of Soil and Input Use Efficiency. Chapter 10. Input Use Efficiency for Improving Soil Fertility and Productivity.- Chapter 11. Efficient Use of Nitrogen Fertilizers: A Basic Necessity for Food and Environmental Security.- Chapter 12. Phosphorus Availability in Soils and P Use Efficiency for Food and Environmental Sustainability.- Chapter 13. Role of Potassium for Improving Nutrient Use Efficiency in Agriculture.- Chapter 14. Integrated Approaches for Biofortification of Food Crops by Improving Input Use Efficiency.- Chapter 15. Enhancing Water Use Efficiency for Food Security and Sustainable Environment in South Asia.- Chapter 16. Optical Sensors for Rational Fertilizer Nitrogen Management in Field Crops.- Chapter 17. Remote and Proximal Sensing: Optimising Input Use Efficiency for Sustainable Agriculture.- Chapter 18. Plans and Policies Towards the Input Use Efficiency for Food and Environmental Security.- Chapter 19. Precision Input Management for Minimizing and Recycling of Agricultural Waste.- Chapter 20. Recycling of Agro-wastes for Environmental and Nutritional Security.- Chapter 21. Agricultural Waste Management Policies and Programme for Environment and Nutritional Security. Chapter 22. Ethanol Production from Sugarcane: An Overview.- Chapter 23. Emerging Policy Concerns for Improving Input Use Efficiency in Agriculture for Global Food Security in South Asia.- Chapter 24. Estimating the Input Use Efficiency of Rice Farmers in Bangladesh:An Application of the Primal System of Stochastic Frontier Approach.
About the author
Dr. Rajan Bhatt is working as Senior Soil Scientist at PAU-Regional Research Station, Kapurthala, Punjab, India, and the author or co-author of more than 85 scientific papers, 03 books, 33 book chapters and several extension articles. Dr. Bhatt acquired B.Sc. (Agriculture) from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, Punjab, India while M.Sc. and Ph.D. (both in Soil Science) degrees from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Dr. Bhatt was awarded > 16 awards at state and national level, and reviewed 52 research articles after receiving invitation from high impact journals. He is handling three projects as PI and two projects as CO-PI. He is an editorial board member for several journals and a life member of numerous societies.
Dr. Ram Swaroop Meena is working as an Assistant Professor (S-3) in the Department of Agronomy, I.Ag. Scs., BHU, Varanasi (UP). Dr. Meena has been awarded Raman Research Fellowship by the MHRD, GOI. He has completed his postdoctoral research on soil carbon sequestration under Padma Shari Prof. Rattan Lal, World Food Prize 2020 Laureate, Director, CMASC, Columbus, USA. Dr. Meena has supervised 25 PG and 7 Ph D students, and have11 years of research and teaching experience. He is working on the three externally funded projects (DST, MHRD, ICAR) with one patent. Dr. Meena has published more than 110 research and review papers with total impact factor 230.43 and have H-index 45 as well 4 published books at the national and 17 books (Springer, Elsevier, etc.) at the international levels, and contributed in the books with 20 chapters at national and 50 at the international levels. Dr. Meena working in 12 journal as an editor. He has worked as an expert for the school education in NCERT, MHRD, GOI. Dr. Meena is contributed in several agricultural extension activities, trainings, meetings, workshops, etc.
Dr. Akbar Hossain is currently working as a Principal Scientist, Soil Science Division, Bangladesh Wheat and Maize Research Institute (BWMRI), Dinajpur 5200, Bangladesh. Dr. Hossain has been awarded Russian Government Research Fellowship for Ph.D study in Russia. He has completed his postdoctoral research on ‘Isolation, characterization and purification of Rhizobium strain to enrich the productivity of groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.)’ in BCKV, WB, India through DST-India fellowship. Dr. Hossain has supervised 15 post-graduate students in HSTU, Dinajpur and BAU, Mymensingh, Bangladesh. He has been working with several international research projects funded by CIMMYT, CSISA, ACIAR, CSIRO-Australia, the University of Queensland, Australia, OCPF-BARI-ICARDA and Tufts University, USA. Dr. Hossain working on climate change, plant physiology, defence mechanisms against stress, conservation agriculture, crop modelling, nanotechnology, etc. Dr. Hossain is authored more than 250 national and international journal articles. He has edited two books of ‘Intech Open, UK.
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