Organic Farming for Improving Fertility of Soil

by Pradhan, Sudhir

ISBN: 9789387057043
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Imprint : Genetech
Year : 2018
Price : Rs. 8495.00
Biblio : vii+232p.,tabls.,ind.,25 cm

Author Profile

Dr. Sudhir Pradhan is associated with an apex organization of South-East Asia, ICAR, under Ministry of Agriculture. His innovative works include a project report on”Media in Agriuclture’, ‘Effect of associative symbiosis of Azospirillum sp. and VAM fungi (Vesicular Arbuscular Mycorrhizae) on the cereals at different levels of Nitrogen and Phosphorus’, and ‘E-Publishing and Knowledge System in Agricultural Research’ under a sub-project of National Agricultural Innovation Project. His academic pursuance possesses M.Sc. (Botany), Ph.D., Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism, and Diploma in German Language. Dr. Pradhan has got training in Abstracting and Indexing by the experts of CAB International, Wellingdonford, United Kingdom. Dr. S. Pradhan has more than 29 years experience in the relevant field as science writer. He has got published more than 250 papers in different newspapers, magazines, research journals, etc. <BR> Dr. S.Pradhan has guided scientists, students, farmers, and research scholars. He has also disseminated agri-information through workshops (8), radio programmes (22) etc. His work has been appreciated by the Director to the Prime Minister Office on behalf of Shri P.V. Narsimha Rao Prime Minister of India, Shri Hukumdeo Narayan Yadav Minister of State for Agriculture (AH&DARE), Dr. M. S. Swaminathan (Chairman, National Commission on Farmers, Government of India), Dr. R.S. Paroda (Secretary (DARE) and Director General (ICAR) etc.

About The Book

The title, Organic Farming for Improving Fertility of Soil, is based on soil health management and covers Organic Farming, Azolla-as green manure, Genus Frankia as organic manure, Blue-green algae, soil health and organic fertilitzers, vermicomposting basic factors affecting composting, composting methods, enrichment of compost, microbial technology for rapid enrirched compost, and management of fertilizers in soil. Besides the knowledge of Media and methods is also shared with the readers of this title. <BR> Presentation of this book is simple, lucid and unambiguous for easy understanding of the subject matter. <BR> The title is useful to the students, teachers research, scholars and those are involved in the agriculture and horticulture. The potentiality of the soil may also be recovred by using the literature given in the book. Organic Farming for Improving Fertility of Soil.