Despite multiple revolutions, daunting challenges face agriculture.
How can it address poverty and hunger, including malnutrition? How
much is it responsible for degradation of natural resources (soil,
water, agrobiodiversity) and climate change? How can agricultural
diversification, and secondary and speciality agriculture help in
improving productivity, sustainability and farmer income? Can
integrated natural resource management (including conservation
agriculture, innovative extension, agricultural education and an
enabling policy environment) help achieve resilience and faster
agricultural growth? This book sketches a journey from green to an
evergreen revolution through reorientation of Indian agriculture to
address emerging challenges. It covers global agriculture, genetic
resource management, crop breeding (including biotechnology), seed
production technology, agronomy, innovative extension, motivation
of youth (including women), climate change and policy reforms for
improving farmers' income. It provides insight into: - India's
agricultural scenario, and the strength of agricultural research
for development. - Better ways of managing natural resources for
sustainable farming systems. - Climate-smart, diversified and
resilient agriculture for improved productivity and income. - The
need to reorient research, development and related policies
concerned with agricultural research and innovation for development
(ARI4D) to harness new opportunities This book is for researchers,
students and policymakers interested in agricultural policy,
increased food production, rural development and natural resource
management, especially: general agriculture, genetic resources,
crop breeding, seed development, agricultural biotechnology,
agronomy, international agriculture, climate change and sustainable
agriculture.
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