Rainfed Agriculture

R.K. Nanwal (Author), G.A. Rajanna (Author)

9789386546043

Hardback, published 19 June 2017

348 pages
25 x 15 x 1.5 cm, 0.73 kg

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.

• 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