Innovative saline agriculture. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jagdish Dagar, Parbodh Sharma, Dinesh Sharma, Anil Singh.
• Editors: Dagar, J. C; Sharma, P. C (Parbodh Chander); Sharma, D. K (Dinesh K.); Dr, Singh, Anil Kumar
• Contents: 1. Introduction (JC Dagar and PC Sharma).- 2. Climate Change Vis-À-Vis Saline Agriculture: Impact and AdaptationStrategies (JC Dagar, PC Sharma, SK Chaudhari, HS Jat and Sharif Ahamad).- 3. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Salt-affected Soils and Poor-quality Waters using Remote Sensing and Proximal Techniques (MadhuramaSethi, DS Bundela and Rajkumar).- 4. Influence of Nano-particles on Soil Biological Processes for Enhancing CropProductivity (AK Patra, AK Bhardwaj andTapanAdhikari).- 5. Rhizosphere Engineering- an Innovative Approach for Sustainable Crop Productionin Sodic Soils (T Damodaranand VK Mishra).- 6. Physico- hydraulic Properties and Solute Movement in Black Alkali Soils (AK Singh and SK Verma).- 7. Removing Bottlenecks in Fertilizing Salt-affected Soils for Agricultural Production (AK Bhardwaj, S Srivastava, JC Dagar, RK Yadav and DK Sharma).- 8. Agroforestry for Ecological Restoration of Salt-affected Lands (SR Gupta and JC Dagar).- 9. Integrated Drainage Solutions for Waterlogged Saline Lands (SK Gupta).- 10. Sodic Irrigation Management for Sustaining Crop Productivity (OP Choudhary).- 11. Innovations in Utilization of Poor-quality Waters for Sustainable Agricultural Production (RK Yadav and JC Dagar).- 12. Low Cost Remediation and On-farm Management Approaches for Safe Use of Wastewater jn Agriculture (Khajanchi Lal, Ravinder Kaur and Neelam Patel).- 13. Use of saline/ industrial effluents in diverse crop interventions in Vertisols (G Gururaja Rao, Sanjay Arora and Anil R Chinchmalatpure).- 14 Investigating Abiotic Stress Response Machinery in Plants: The Metabolomics Approach (Khalid Anwar, Nita Lakra, Sneh L Singla-Pareek, AshwaniPareek).- 15. Physiological and Molecular Insights into Salt Tolerance Mechanisms in Plants (PC Sharma, Rama Parshat G, Ashwani Kumar and Anita Mann).- 16. Fluoride and Arsenic in Groundwater: Occurrence and Geo-chemical Processes Controlling Mobilisation (SK Jha and VK Mishra).- 17. Homestead Production Systems in Coastal Region: Opportunities, Challenges and Issues (Subhasis Mandal, D Burman, SK Sarangi and B Maji).- 18. Innovative Technologies to Sustain Saline Island Agriculture in the Scenario of Climate Change: A Case Study from Andaman Islands, India (AVelmurugan, S Dam Roy, JC Dagar, TP Swarnam and I Jaisankar).- 19. Mariculture Potential of Seaweeds: With Special Focus on GracilariaCultivation (SahuNivedita and C Raghunathan).- 20.Seaweeds as Agricultural Crops in India: New Vistas (Abhiram Seth and M Shanmugam).- 21. Livestock Rearing on Saline Water (Amit Sharma, Preeti, Hujaz Tariq, N Kewalramani and SS Kundu).- 22. Reclamation of Salt-affected Soils: Impact Assessment (K Thimmappa, JC Dagar and DK Sharma).
• Publisher Details: New Delhi : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (519 pages)
• Subjects: 631.416; Salt-tolerant crops; Crops -- Effect of salts on; Saline irrigation; Waterlogging (Soils); Agricultural productivity
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9788132227700
• Related ISBNs: 9788132227687
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