India would require around 311 million tons of food grains (cereals and pulses) during 2030
to feed around 1.43 billion people, and the requirement expectedly would further increase to …

Switchgrass (Panicum virgatum L.)—a perennial, warm-season (C4) species—evolved
across North America into multiple, divergent populations. The resulting natural variation …

Increasing the productivity of water and making safe use of poor quality waters in agriculture
will play a vital role in easing competition for scarce water resources, prevention of …

Livestock production is the world's dominant land use, covering about 45% of the Earth's
land surface, and much of it in harsh and variable environments that are unsuitable for other …

Nearly, one billion hectares of arid and semi-arid areas of the world are salt-affected and
remain barren due to salinity or water scarcity. In India, about 6.75 Mha lands are either …

The microbial diversity in the rhizosphere of different biotypes is influenced by different
factors like plant species, root exudates and soil environment. Culturable microbial diversity …

Growing salt‐tolerant under‐explored crops utilizing saline ground water can provide for an
economic use of abandoned semiarid lands. Field trials were conducted between 1999 and …

Agroforestry has been the way of life since time immemorial, but the subject is relatively new
as a science. Still, India has the distinction of having the longest history of formal …

Agroforestry is as old as agriculture itself. Many of the anecdotal agroforestry practices,
which are time tested and evolved through traditional indigenous knowledge, are still being …

Increased population pressure, climate change impacts, degradation of productive
agricultural lands, and scarcity and poor-quality of water have significantly increased the …