A textbook of Rainfed Farming

ISBN-13: 9783659781964 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 64 str.

Chavan Anil;Gadade G. D.;Kohire Vishal

Opis

Indian agriculture is a gamble of monsoon." Out of 143 m ha of cultivated land 85 m ha is rain fed, which is 60% of the cultivated land. Such land suffers from low rainfall, draught and excess rainfall. Despite considerable progress in irrigation development over the FYP, 85% of coarse cereals, 83% pulses, 42% in rice, 70% in oil seeds and 65% in cotton is still cultivated as rain fed. More over 40% of food grains production comes from dry lands. India will need 308.5 m tons of food grains by 2030 to feed the population. Hence Dry Land agriculture management becomes very much significant.

O autorze

Anil Chavan was born on 20th November, 1984 in India. Completed his graduation in Agriculture from MAU, Parbhani and Ph.D degree in Agronomy from NAU, Navsari (Gujarat) India. He has an experience of various research schemes of university as a "Research Associate" and published number of research papers, abstracts and popular articles.