Smart Farming Technologies to Attain Food and Nutrition Security

ISBN-13: 9781032690865 / Twarda / 2024 / 350 str.

P. Parvatha Reddy

Opis

This book will be of immense value to the scientific community involved in teaching, research and extension activities related to strategies for achieving Rainbow Revolution for enhancing farmers’ income, food, and nutrition security.

Spis treści

Preface

About the Author

1. Rainbow Revolution: An Overview

2. Green (Food Grain Production) Revolution

3. Evergreen (Sustainable Food Grain Production) Revolution

4. Golden (Horticultural Crop Production) Revolution

5. Yellow (Oil Seed Production) Revolution

6. Pulse Revolution

7. Silver Fiber (Cotton Production) Revolution

8. Golden Fiber (Jute Production) Revolution

9. Pink (Onion Production) Revolution

10. Round (Potato Production) Revolution

11. Gene Revolution

12. White (Milk Production) Revolution/ Operation Flood

13. Blue (Fisheries Production) Revolution

14. Silver (Poultry Egg and Meat Production) Revolution

16. Green (Renewable) Energy Revolution

17. The Way Ahead

References

Index

O autorze

P. Parvatha Reddy served as the Director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) in Bangalore from 1999 to 2002. He also served as the Head, Division of Entomology and Nematology at IIHR and gave tremendous impetus and direction to research, extension and education in developing bio-intensive integrated pest management strategies in horticultural crops. Dr Reddy has about 34 years of experience working with horticultural crops and is involved in developing an F1 tomato hybrid “Arka Varadan” resistant to root-knot nematodes.