Modern agriculture based on high yielding seeds, chemical using production and protection
technologies and intensive use of natural resources paid rich dividends by bringing manifold …

South Asian countries, comprising India, Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh and having a
total geographical area of only 401.72 million hectares (m ha), hold nearly half the world's …

After gaining independence, India faced the daunting challenge of attaining food security to
feed its population of nearly 350 million, a large proportion of which was estimated as being …

Conservation agriculture (CA) has been proposed as an alternative to conventional
agriculture to sustainably improve agricultural production, increase nitrogen-use efficiency …

Ever since humankind started practicing agriculture, there was a beginning of awareness of
resource conservation. We find evidence of conservation practices in all ancient cultures …

Indian Punjab, a small state comprising only 1.5 per cent of geographical area of the country
and producing about 20 per cent of wheat and 11 per cent of rice production of the country …

Names: Fujita, Koichi, editor.| Mizushima, Tsukasa, 1952-editor. Title: Sustainable
development in India: groundwater irrigation, energy] use, and food production/edited by …