Organic farming is gaining gradual momentum across the world. Growing awareness of health and environmental issues in agriculture has demanded production of organic food which is emerging as an attractive source of rural income generation. While trends of rising consumer demand for organics are becoming discernible, sustainability in production of crops has become the prime concern in agriculture development. Due to high yielding varieties, and indiscriminate use of chemical inputs and mechanization, agriculture today faces severe problem of soil qualities such as erosion, depletion of soil...

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.