Empowering Indian Dryland Agriculture in the Face of Climate Change

ISBN-13: 9783659320514 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 252 str.

Kumar Prasann

Opis

In this book, I focus on lab to land initiative aims at achieving improvement in the quality of life of people by bringing into fruition provisions of the programmed for the development and welfare of the people in rural areas. It is well known that due to impending climate change, there will drastic effects to agricultural productivity. In order to increase food production with demand from an ever increasing population, integration of multiple sources to combat climate change will be necessary. Those affected the most by these changes will be underdeveloped and developing countries. In the face of global climate change, India, the second most populous country, must utilize all resources whether genetic, technical, or agronomic to ensure adequate food and water production for the projected increase in population. Preparing for global climate change is possible through collective efforts on a national and global level and will help alleviate any problems we encounter in the future. This book is an attempt to furnish student and teachers the information at one place in consolidated and precise manner.

O autorze

Mr. Prasann Kumar is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Plant Physiology, I.Ag.Sci., BHU, doing his thesis work under the supervision of Dr. Padmanabh Dwivedi. He has completed projects/training programmes of 2 to 4 months duration that were funded by INSA, IASc, NASI, Indian Lac Research Institute (Ranchi) and Fruit & Vegetable Preservation.