Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture: New Research and Strategies

ISBN-13: 9781774630235 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 592 str.

Nintu Mandal; Abir Dey; Rajiv Rakshit

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This book explores the various soil management techniques and the latest improvements in soil management. Taking a sustainable approach, the volume begins with an overview of the elementary concepts of soil management and then delves into new research and novel soil management tools and techniques

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PART 1: CLAYS: THE CRITICAL COMPONENT IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE WITH RESPECT TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION VIS-A-VIS THEIR INTERACTION WITH SOIL ENZYMES  1. Advances in Clay Research for Sustainable Agriculture  2. Clay-Enzyme Interactions and Implications  3. Short Range Order (SRO) Minerals and Implications in Sustainable Agriculture  PART 2: POTENTIAL UTILIZATION OF MICROBES FOR STRESSED AGRICULTURE  4. Rhizospheric Microbes for Nutrient Fortification in Crop Plants  5. Managing Abiotic Stressed Agriculture through Microbes  6. An Overview of Biochar Application on Biological Soil Health Indicators and Greenhouse Gas Emission  PART 3: RESOURCE CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES AND PROSPECTIVE CARBON MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES  7. Resource Conservation Technologies for Sustainable Soil Management  8. Soil Organic Carbon, Its Retention, and Implication for Sustainable Agriculture  9. Hydrothermal Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon Under Imminent Moisture and Temperature Stress  PART 4: SMART TOOLS FOR MONITORING SOILS  10. Application of Remote Sensing Technology for Estimation of Soil Moisture  11. Spectral and Smartphone-Based Tools to Monitor Plant and Soil Nitrogen Status for Site-Specific Nitrogen Management in Crop Plants  12. Innovative Extension Approaches for Diffusion of Nutrient Management Technologies  PART 5: NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT APPROACHES  13. The Panorama of Phosphorus Fertilization in Crop Production  14. Novel Potassium Management Strategies for Improvement of Soil Health  15. Micronutrient Management in Soils and the Route to Biofortification  PART 6: NANOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS  16. Escalating Nutrient Use Efficiency through Nanotechnological Intercessions  17. Hydrogel Formulations for Increasing Input Use Efficiency in Agriculture  18. Nanotechnological Interventions for Increasing Nutrient Use Efficiency in Horticultural Crops  19. Advances in Micronutrient Fertilizer Production and Its Efficacy in Plant Nutrition  PART 7: REMEDIATION OF METALS AND PESTICIDES CONTAMINATED SOILS  20. Heavy Metal Pollution in Soil and Remediation Strategies  21. Advancement in Pesticide Chemistry for Sustainable Agriculture  22. Resource Recovery from Biowaste for Agriculture through Composting and Microbial Technology