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This book is an attempt to enlighten the learners and to inculcate, among them and other concerned persons, the importance and influence of cropping system on sustainable crop production. The smooth order, clear explanation and simple presentation are expected to help the readers understanding the subject in a better way.

The book is written in simple enough terms that shrimp farmers, aquaculturists, entrepreneurs, fishery biologists, seafood technologists, students, and others interested in shrimp aquaculture could benefit from it. This book not only provides readers with basic information, but also serves as a valuable tool for diagnosing and preventing problems caused by poor water quality.

According to estimates, plant pests and diseases cause at least 10% of the world's food production to be lost. Additional pest and disease losses occur after harvest, where it is estimated that up to 13% of the total calories generated are lost after leaving the farm gate, in addition to in-field losses. According to Indian viewpoints, biotic stressors cause a 20-26% annual loss of food commodities. The effects of the "Green Revolution" (GV) multiplied crop production and productivity, which ultimately affected the livelihoods of Indian civilians. However, the introduction of numerous in organic plant protection inputs resulted in irreversible harm to the environment, human lives, and material wealth. The focus on environmentally friendly plant protection measures, particularly microbial biopesticides, has expanded as a result of current conditions and Indian government regulations on chemical pesticides that take into account their negative effects. In the recent past, India's biopesticide industries, demand, consumption, market, etc., have grown tremendously. It is expected that between 2040 and 2050, the biopesticide industry would either match or surpass those of chemical pesticides. Global population growth is projected to reach 9 billion people by 2050, and the duty to increase food production by 70% of current levels in order to feed this population has led to a ruthless shift toward the use of artificial agricultural inputs. Nevertheless, there are ways to enhance food production to the anticipated level by using Integrated Pest Management, which enables the prudent application of inorganic inputs in conjunction with environmentally benign tactics like microbial biopesticides

The book fulfills the need for a comprehensive text and reference book on livestock production, health, nutrition and crop mixed farming. Though many foreign books are available, they are way too expensive for the student and written in a complex way. In this scenario, this book is very handy as well as written as per the requirements of teachers, scientists, students and industry personnel working in the area of animal production and in general animal health management and crop mixed farming for nutritional security.The authors of this book are eminent researchers and professors from various veterinary and agriculture colleges and ICAR research institutes across the country. It is a compilation of many topics of importance as far as livestock farming, health and production is concerned. Some insights in to the crop mixed farming and aquaculture will be a treat to the readers. This book is unique in its kind in meeting the requirements of its reader community and it will be a solution for many problems related to livestock farming, and agriculture.

Intercropping system is an age-old cropping system where two or more crops coexist for a significant time of their growth period. In the present context of negative impacts on crop productivity and soil fertility, a system approach in cropping has become more relevant. The book 'Intercropping System' is divided into nine chapters that deal with the theory and practices of the intercropping system including recent research evidence. The first two chapters describe the overview of the intercropping system and complexity as well as the competitive relationship among component crops. The third chapter narrates the management options in the intercropping systems, while the fourth chapter highlights the multifaceted benefits of an intercropping system. Chapter 5 tells the suitability for the adoption of the intercropping system in organic agriculture. The sixth chapter describes how an intercropping system can ensure agricultural sustainability and some of the sustainable development Goals (SDGs). Chapter 7 illustrates the practice of alley cropping, a form of agroforestry, in resource-poor conditions. Legumes are considered an automatic choice in the intercropping system and hence, in the eighth chapter, the benefits of the inclusion of legumes as components have been described. Finally, in the ninth chapter, the performance of important crops in the intercropping system has been highlighted.

This book aims to provide the soil testing laboratory with sustainable technical literature on various aspects of soil testing, including testing methods and formulations of fertilizer recommendations etc, this book has been planned and it provides elaborated information on major soil types of India, their composition, plant nutrient and their function, typical deficiency symptoms of nutrients in plants, apart from procedure of sample collection and methods of analysis.This book contains analytical concepts on nutrients covering principles, materials, equipment's, methods, calculations and interpretations, with clear and easily understandable words/ sentences which provide better clarity of the analytical methods used.This book will be a useful tool for soil testing in research laboratories for advancing research and preparing Soil Health Card for the farmers.

The desire for publishing this handy book has originally come from our long-time appetite for writing a non-voluminous book on soil and water management that can be used by students or any readers who need to have a quick glance on the scientific jargons, that are mostly used in soil and water management studies.The book aims to constructively write a handy compilation of all these scientific terms along with their simplified definitions so that the readers are offered with a tailored note of one-liners from each respective sub-topics.

Drying is an important unit operation used in the industry for processing and preservation of food products. Food industry always looks for cost effective and energy efficient drying techniques to commercially succeed in their ventures and to fulfill demand of high quality dried food products. Although a large volume of technical literature is available on drying of foods, it is still quite challenging for scientists and engineers to improve upon the existing drying systems and quality of the products. The book consists of 14 chapters detailing freeze drying, atmospheric freeze drying, swell drying, multi-flash drying, electro-hydrodynamic drying, pulse combustion drying, foam mat drying, ultrasound- assisted drying and fluidized bed drying. It also includes chapters which are commodity-specific such as mushroom drying, drying and roasting of cocoa and coffee beans. The degradation mechanism and kinetics of vitamin C degradation in fruits and vegetables, kinetics modeling of drying process for the recovery of bioactive compounds and energy calculation procedures for dryers is also covered which would be helpful to improve dryer operation and efficiency.

Scheduling means Which nutrient? How much? and When to apply?The basic quantum of NPK used to prepare the schedules is actually the recommended doses (RD) of NPK by relevant public institutions or state agriculture universities. Using these basic recommendations, schedules are prepared to match the growth and the known developmental stages of each crop. In order to enhance the use of the schedules to other regions/countries where different RD is in practice, the book gives information on the basic nutrient split ratios for each growth stage duration. Using these ratios the fertilizers are to be partitioned for each stage of the crop. Each of these parts of fertilizers are then converted into farmer-usable daily doses. However, the schedule is not given on a daily application basis as it was found that most farmers do not want to go for daily dosing (injection). Hence the schedule is reported using a dose for every three days. It is also found that more frequent application schedule will give better yield and nutrient use efficiency.The schedules of most of the crops given in this book are actually field applied by farmers during the last two decades and been in use for several seasons. 1. Introduction 2. Fertigation Ratios and Scheduling