Conservation Agriculture: The New Paradigm

The concepts associated with Conservation Agriculture (CA) are practiced by numerous farmers throughout the globe. This book is an attempt to include information on CAbased resource-conserving practices on factors such as pest, weed, and disease dynamics; the effects of crop rotations and green manure cover crops; residue management and threshold levels of residue cover; soil nutrient dynamics and nutrient management ; water management; soil structure dynamics; impacts on greenhouse gas emissions; adaptive research/policy issues; impacts on household livelihoods, local/regional economies; food security; farming system approach and varieties adapted to CA systems in the form of a compilation of chapters on conservation agriculture invited from agriculture scientists and researchers from various ICAR institutes and State Agricultural Universities.