Organic farming of rice-based cropping systems

ISBN-13: 9783659223525 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 300 str.

Mohammadreza Davari; Shri Niwas Sharma

Opis

The rice (Oryza sativa L.) - wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping system occupies about 28.8 million hectares mainly spread over Asias five countries, namely, India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and China. Organic farming offers alternative system for sustainable production and natural resource system. The aim of nutrient management in organic systems is to optimize the use of on-farm resources and minimize losses. Organic materials such as farmyard manure, compost, vermicompost, biogas slurry, green manures, crop residues, biofertilizers and cover crops are other valuable source of nutrients to improve the growth and yield attributes, yields, nutrient uptake, grain quality and soil fertility. The present book is a part of studies which is conducted to determine the optimum combination organic manures crop residues and biofertilizers for meeting nutritional requierment of rice-wheat and rice-wheat-mungbean cropping systems. It also focuses on studying the impact of organic farming practices on the health of soil, quality of organically grown products in order to find out economics of organic farming of rice-based cropping systems.

O autorze

Dr. Mohammadreza Davari has completed his Ph.D. degree from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. After completion of his education he has been engaged in research as well as teaching fields. His expertise fields are organic agriculture, organic materials, precision farming, ecology and crop nutrition with about 40 publications.