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| ISBN 13 | 9788120409699 |
| Author | A. Chakraverty |
| Language | English |
| Book Description | The urgent need to of the day is to increase food production, particularaly pulses and oilseeds, to meet the demands of the increasing population. More than 75% of the pulses and oilseeds come from drylands. Drylands occupay more than 50% of the cultivatable are in most of the states in India. Inspite the technological progress made in the past and also the emphasis laid on increasing the food production from drylands, the returns have not been upto the expected level. This book brings out the state of knowledge in dry farming as on date and also the various constraints at the operational level, and the possible solutions to overcome the same so that the dryland farmers would adopt the newer technologies and increase the productivity per unit area. |
| About the Author | DILIP KUMAR MAJUMDAR, D.Phil. (Agriculture), is formerly Professor of Agronomy and Principal (Dean), Institute of Agriculture, Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan. An M.Sc. (Agronomy) from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, and D.Phil. (Agriculture) from the University of Calcutta, Prof. Majumdar has four decades of teaching experience in Agronomy. He has guided a number of Ph.D. and M.Sc. students in Agronomy and Water Management. He has been Consultant in the Ministry of HRD, GoI, for formulation of a project to establish the Council of Rural Higher Education and University of Rural Education in India. He possesses seven years of experience in rural development under Government of Tripura. He also served as Member of Tripura State Planning Board. He is a Life Member of a number of scientific societies including Indian Society of Agronomy and Indian Science Congress Association. He has published 67 research papers in Agronomy of Crops and Water Management in reputed national and international journals and authored a successful university-level textbook. |
Post Harvest Technology Of Cereals, Pulses And Oilseeds paperback english
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