Handbook of Composite Organic Farming

AUTHOR'S: Himadri Panda and Dharamvir Hota
PUBLISHER: Gene-Tech Books
ISBN: 9788189723813
YEAR: 2008 (First Edition)
PAGES: 288
SIZE: 18 X 25 X 2 cm.
BINDING: Hard
LANGUAGE: English

ABOUT THE BOOK: Our concern about environmental safety and sustainability of land productivity is increasing among the scientists, environ-mentalists and higher officials. With the increasing population, it is also becoming clear that food security for the millions will not be possible unless the available resources are efficiently utilized for increasing the productivity. The strategy adopted during the green revolution cannot be valid anymore under the present conditions. A new strategy of living with the nature and nurturing it of sustainable high productivity should be evolved. Though the use of chemical inputs cannot be altogether avoided, but their use in agriculture has to be minimized or rationalized. So organic farming shows us the way to effectively use the available natural resources for the benefit of the mankind. But unfortunately there are a lot of misunderstanding. A compilation of the available information with upgrading technology has been felt need of students, research workers, agriculturists, environ-mentalists and scientists in the field of agriculture. In this handbook almost all the aspects related to organic farming are covered with a balanced approach. The author demonstrates the newness of the organic concept for readers. This will help readers to discover easily the philosophical and technical differences between organic and conventional farming system.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR'S:
1. Himadri Panda, obtained M.Sc. in Physical Chemistry with 'Drug' as a special subject (First Class First) from University of Indore, Indore (M.P.). Then completed research work in Rohilkhand University, Bareilly for Ph.D.. He is a well known writer and written about 50 Technical Books and 250 Technical/Review articles in various subjects of Industrial Chemistry which were published in National and International Journals. He is an active member of Indian Chemical Society, Institution of Chemists (India), Essential oil Association of India, India Pulp and Paper Technical Association, Oil & Colour Chemist's Association (U.K.), Chinese Forest Academy (China). He and his wife (Dr. Rakhshinda Panda) who is at present working as Research Officer in 'The Indian Turpentine & Rosin Co. Ltd', a U.P. Govt. Organisation, jointly awarded by Chinese Forest Authority for the best paper published in their Journal, and invited to China to deliver Key Note address in International Symposium on 'Forest Based Products'. He was also invited as Guest speaker in 'GreenTech Environment Excellence Award' and 'Indian System of Medicine' organised be Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, of India, New Delhi. At present he is the Technical Director of Devashish Consultants (P) Ltd and Technical Consutlant to Arundhati Industrial Research Laboratory. He was nominated as 'Technical Consultants' to Afro-Asian Countries for the year 1985-1990 by Government of India.

2. Dr. Dharamvir Hota is presently the emeritus professor in the department of agriculture science and economics, an appointment he has enjoyed since 1998. He was a senior researchers at the International Institute of Agricultural Science, where he worked on the use of genetically modified crops for structure determination of molecular modeling. He has been teaching and doing research on agricultural systems in and around the country. He teaches soil science, organic agriculture and land use, and conducts research on the effects of organic and conventional farming systems on soil, crop productivity and quality, with publications appearing in various internationally reputed journals.

CONTENTS:
Preface
1. Integrated Plant Nutrition System (IPNS): An Approach Towards Organic Farming
2. Preparation, Processing and Preservation of Organic Fertilizers
3. Development of Biofertilizers
4. Nitrogen Fixing Microorganisms: Symbiotic
5. Nitrogen Fixing Microorganisms: Asymbiotic
6. Crop Response to Biofertilizers
7. Soils and Plant Growth
8. Organic Matter
9. Pest Management in Organic Rice Fish System
10. Changing Concepts in the Residual Toxicity of Pesticides
11. Rice Diseases Under Organic Cultivation
12. Mycorrhizae in Transplanted Crops
13. Biochemical and Genetic Characterisation of Mineral Phosphate
14. Effect of Phosphobacterium
15. Inoculation of Phosphomicrobes
16. Phosphocompost from Neem
17. Cyanobacteria on Soil Characteristics
18. Crop Response to Algalization in Rice Variety
19. Biofertilizers in Banana Fields
20. Isolation of Pesticides from Wheat Crop
21. Azotobacter Isolated from Mulberry
22. SulphaticBiofertilizeronPigeonpea
23. Biodynamic Agriculture
24. Indigenous Knowledge in Rice Organic Fanning
25. Rice Diseases in Organic Rice-Fish system
26. Permanent Manurial Experiments in Rice
27. Success Story of Organic Farming
Bibliography
Index