Nutrient Management For Sustainable Crop Production In Asia

Author : A. E. Johnston,John Keith Syers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Phosphate rock
ISBN : WISC:89066563313

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Nutrient Management for Sustainable Crop Production in Asia by A. E. Johnston,John Keith Syers Pdf

During the past 30 years, crop yields, particularly of rice, have been greatly increased in many Asian countries by advances in plant breeding and by the application of nitrogenous and phosphatic fertilizers. This has become known as the "Green Revolution", which has been a major factor underpinning the rapid growth of Asian economies, providing a cheap, indigenous food supply. However, while human populations continue to increase, in many cases yields are no longer being sustained, due to a reduction in soil quality. Thus, food security in Asia has again become a source of concern. This book is the result of an international conference held in Bali in December 1996, initiated by The World Phosphate Institute (IMPHOS) to discuss the action which must be taken to reverse soil degradation and improve nutrient levels. It includes papers and working group reports on nutrient management and balance, the potential of different phosphate sources, rock phosphate efficiency in acid upland soils, current usage and future requirements for fertilizers, sustainability and the environment, and policy and pricing. Finally, there is a summary and conference resolution. Contributors to the book come from Europe, USA, Australia and many Asian countries. It is essential reading for soil scientists and agronomists concerned with agriculture in Asia and will also be of interest to environmentalists, ecologists and economists concerned with sustainable natural resource management.

Author : Peter Gruhn, Francesco Goletti, and Montague Yudelman
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780896296374

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Integrated Nutrient Management, Soil Fertility, and Sustainable Agriculture: Current Issues and Future Challenges by Peter Gruhn, Francesco Goletti, and Montague Yudelman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Crop rotation
ISBN : OCLC:1001952881

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Integrated Soil, Water and Nutrient Management for Sustainable Rice-wheat Cropping Systems in Asia by Anonim Pdf

"The rice-wheat system is the predominant cropping system in Asia, providing food, employment and income, ensuring the livelihoods of about one billion resource poor people. However, the productivity of the current rice-wheat systems is seriously threatened by increasing land degradation and scarcity of water and labour, inefficient cropping practices and other emerging socioeconomic and environmental drivers. Responding to the need to develop alternate crop establishment methods and improved cropping practices, this publication summarizes the results from a joint FAO/IAEA coordinated research project on optimizing productivity and sustainability of rice-wheat cropping systems. It provides relevant information on how to modify existing water and nutrient management systems and improve soil management in both traditional and emerging crop establishment methods for sustainable intensification of cereal production in Asia."--Publisher's description

Author : Milkha Aulakh,Cynthia A. Grant
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 634 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : PSU:000065146354

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Integrated Nutrient Management for Sustainable Crop Production by Milkha Aulakh,Cynthia A. Grant Pdf

Both nutrient scarcities and surpluses alike can threaten this balance.

Author : Ram Swaroop Meena
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811386602

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Nutrient Dynamics for Sustainable Crop Production by Ram Swaroop Meena Pdf

The cropping system is one of the important components of sustainable agriculture, since it provides more efficient nutrient cycling. As such, balanced fertilization must be based on the concept of sustainable crop production. Feeding the rapidly growing world population using environmentally sustainable production systems is a major challenge, especially in developing countries. A number of studies have highlighted the fact that degradation of the world's cultivated soils is largely responsible for low and plateauing yields. Soil is lost rapidly but only formed over millennia, and this represents the greatest global threat to nutrient dynamics in agriculture. This means that nutrient management is essential to provide food and nutritional security for current and future generations. Nutrient dynamics and soil sustainability imply the maintenance of the desired ecological balance, the enhancement and preservation of soil functions, and the protection of biodiversity above and below ground. Understanding the role of nutrient management as a tool for soil sustainability and nutritional security requires a holistic approach to a wide range of soil parameters (biological, physical, and chemical) to assess the soil functions and nutrient dynamics of a crop management system within the desired timescale. Further, best nutrient management approaches are important to advance soil sustainability and food and nutritional security without compromising the soil quality and productive potential. Sustainable management practices must allow environmentally and economically sustainable yields and restore soil health and sustainability. This book presents soil management approaches that can provide a wide range of benefits, including improved fertility, with a focus on the importance of nutrient dynamics. Discussing the broad impacts of nutrients cycling on the sustainability of soil and the cropping systems that it supports, it also addresses nutrient application to allow environmentally and economically sustainable agroecosystems that restore soil health. Arguing that balanced fertilization must be based on the concept of INM for a cropping system rather than a crop, it provides a roadmap to nutrient management for sustainability. This richly illustrated book features tables, figures and photographs and includes extensive up-to-date references, making it a valuable resource for policymakers and researchers, as well as undergraduate and graduate students of Soil Science, Agronomy, Ecology and Environmental Sciences.

Author : Mingsan Khāosaʻāt,Benjavan Rerkasem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Agricultural productivity
ISBN : UCSD:31822032038275

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The Growth and Sustainability of Agriculture in Asia by Mingsan Khāosaʻāt,Benjavan Rerkasem Pdf

This book presents an extensive account of the green revolution's effect on the performance of Asian agriculture over the past two decades, as well as the second-generation problems that the green revolution is now experiencing.

Author : Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair
Publisher : Springer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-20
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030155308

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Intelligent Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture by Kodoth Prabhakaran Nair Pdf

This book conceptualizes a revolutionary idea based on a mechanistic-mathematical model in which the “Buffer Power” of the principal and problematic nutrients like phosphorus, potassium and zinc is quantified. This is achieved by using either a very sophisticated technique, electro-ultra-filtration, or a simple adsorption-desorption equilibrium technique, and by integrating the “Buffer Power” of the nutrient in question into the computations, accurate fertilizer recommendations are made. This technique was field tested across Europe, (Germany and Belgium), Africa (The Republic of Cameroon), and Asia (both Central Asia- Turkey and South Asia-India), during a period of three decades in test crops, such as, summer rye (Secale cereale), maize (Zea mays), wheat (Triticum aestivum), white clover (Trifolium repens), a highly nutritious and palatable fodder crop for Africa, black pepper (Piper nigrum) and cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum). Remarkable precision in predictability of plant uptake of phosphorus, potassium and zinc was obtained employing the technique. “The Nutrient Buffer Power Concept” project was shortlisted for the very prestigious U.S. $1 Million Rolex Awards For Enterprise of The Rolex Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland, for its outstanding originality and quality from more than 3500 nominations worldwide and is the only project chosen for this very coveted distinction from the Asian continent.

Author : Anil Mahajan,R. D. Gupta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781402098758

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Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) in a Sustainable Rice-Wheat Cropping System by Anil Mahajan,R. D. Gupta Pdf

Agriculture is the main occupation in India and about 75% of its population depends directly or indirectly on agriculture for their livelihood. It is the dominant sector that contributes 18% of the gross domestic product. Thus, agriculture is the foundation of the Indian economy. The maximum share of Indian exports is also from the agriculture sector. As the population of the country is increasing trem- dously, approximately at the rate of 19 million every year over the existing popu- tion of more than 1 billion (approximately 1. 18 billion), the food grain production must necessarily be increased. This can be done by increasing crop production to match the population growth rate of 2. 2% per annum, which is expected to stabilize at 1. 53 billion around 2050. There is no doubt that the Green Revolution in India during the late 1960s brought self-sufficiency in food grain production, mainly through the increase in rice and wheat crop yields – the two main crops of the country which play an important role from food security point of view. However, the excessive use of fertilizers and pesticides, and the neglect of organic manures for these crops, has resulted in the deterioration of physical, chemical and biological health of the ri- and wheat-growing soils. Owing to the deterioration of the health of these soils, the productivity of the rice–wheat cropping system has now either got reduced or in some places has become constant for the last decade.

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Crop rotation
ISBN : 9201066163

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Integrated Soil, Water and Nutrient Management for Sustainable Rice-wheat Cropping Systems in Asia by International Atomic Energy Agency Pdf

Responding to the need to develop alternate crop establishment methods and improved cropping practices, this publication summarizes the results from a joint FAO/IAEA coordinated research project on optimizing productivity and sustainability of rice-wheat cropping systems.

Author : Saleem Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018296710

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Agriculture-fertilizer Interface in Asia by Saleem Ahmed Pdf

Author : Arnulfo G. Garcia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Land use
ISBN : UOM:39015077099789

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Sustaining Natural Resources Management in Southeast Asia by Arnulfo G. Garcia Pdf

Author : A. Dobermann (Ed),C. Witt (Ed),D. Dawe (Ed)
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Rice
ISBN : 9789712201875

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Increasing Productivity of Intensive Rice Systems Through Site-Specific Nutrient Management by A. Dobermann (Ed),C. Witt (Ed),D. Dawe (Ed) Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Int. Rice Res. Inst.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Plant nutrients
ISBN : 9789810579494

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Rice by Anonim Pdf

Author : Palit Kataki,Suresh Chandra Babu
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000447903

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The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia by Palit Kataki,Suresh Chandra Babu Pdf

The lives of more than a billion people depend on the answer! This valuable book surveys the problems of the rice-wheat cropping system practiced on the Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP). Introduced at the time of the Green Revolution, it transformed agriculture and produced thirty years of bumper crops. The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia: Efficient Production Management offers scientific analysis of the aftereffects of this intense cropping. The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia: Efficient Production Management focuses on the questions of soil depletion, pest infestation, and soil alkalinity as elements of declining productivity. Along with clear charts, maps, and graphs, it provides practical suggestions for improving and maintaining the productivity of this irreplaceable farmland. The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia looks at the problems that have arisen for both the rice and wheat phases, including: depletion of micronutrients degradation of major nutrients from unbalanced fertilization practices infestations of nematodes increasing soil alkalinity as a result of irrigation It also suggests solutions for maintaining productivity, including: integrated pest management sustainable agriculture micronutrient fertilizers This informative book and its companion volume, The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia: Trends, Constraints, Productivity and Policy, are essential planning tools for agronomists, policymakers, and agroeconomists. It is also a useful reference for anyone interested in the problems of famine and intensive cropping not only in South Asia but in the world.

Author : Kishore, Avinash,Alvi, Muzna,Krupnik, Timothy J.
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Development of balanced nutrient management innovations in South Asia: Lessons from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka by Kishore, Avinash,Alvi, Muzna,Krupnik, Timothy J. Pdf

As part of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Washington and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA) and the USAID/Nepal Seeds and Fertilizer (NSAF) project, the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) organized a Regional Dialogue on September 5, 2019, in Kathmandu on “Innovations for Advancing Farmers’ Use of Balanced Nutrient Application in South Asia.” The aim of the event was to facilitate cross-country dialogues on efficient nutrient management in the region. The event saw participation from central and regional government representatives from policy and extension, private fertilizer companies and fertilizer federations, researchers from CGIAR centers, as well as representatives of the donor community. Participants came from India, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Interactive discussions were centred around three main themes: (a) cross-country learning and evidence sharing on policies and subsidies to promote balanced nutrient application, (b) market, policy, and product innovations in the fertilizer industry, and (c) learnings and insights on the development of innovative methods in research and extension targeted to farmers. This policy brief summarizes seven key lessons learned from the discussions in the workshop.