ISBN: 9788189304645    Publisher: Satish Serial Publishing House Year of publishing: 2009     Format:  Hardcover Language: English

Agroforestry is practiced traditionally since time immemorial to meet diverse needs of households and holds good prospects in present times also on account of global climate change and population pressure. At microlevel in farms, there are twin problems of getting and sustaining higher crop productivity vis-à-vis minimizing environmental impact and maintaining soil quality. These twin problems can get solved by developing and adopting site specific agroforestry systems. In the context, this book identifies the key issues associated with agroforestry practices for meeting challenges of sustaining high resource productivity, livelihood security with mitigation of climate challenge. It discusses solutions to these challenges by giving region specific agroforestry systems, manipulation of agroforestry knowledge for soil and water conservation and solving many issues in agroforestry. Topics covered include scope and practices of agroforestry, promising agroforestry systems for specific agro-ecological zones, mitigation of climate change, manipulation of processes in agroforestry for better resource productivity, ecosystem development through agroforestry, economic analysis of agroforestry systems, issues in agroforestry research and development.
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Dr. O.P. Chaturvedi was born on 1st January, 1956 at Barwan, Uttar Pradesh and completed M.Sc. from BHU, Varanasi and Ph.D. from Kumaun University, Nainital with specialization in Forestry/Forest Ecology. He has published more than 100 research papers in international and national journal of repute, one book, 14 book chapters and 25 popular articles. He is awardees of NAAS and National Institute of Ecology Fellowship. He is also the recipient of 1st K. G. Tejwani award for his outstanding contribution in the field of agroforestry research and NAAS recognition award-2008 for significant contribution in soil, water and environmental sciences. He has guided two M.Sc. students. He specializes in Forestry and Agroforestry research. Dr. A. Venkatesh was born on 26th May, 1973 at Sattur, Tamil Nadu and completed his M.Sc and Ph.D. from TNAU, Coimbatore in Forestry. He got published 27 research papers, five books, 11 book chapters and seven popular articles. He has been awarded best thesis in Ph.D., ICAR-JRF and Prize Money by Government of Tamil Nadu. He has specialization in value addition in agroforestry and tree-crop interaction.
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