Organic farming

Principles of Organic Farming (With Theory and Practicals)

With Theory and Practicals

by E. Somasundaram, D. Udhaya Nandhini & M. Meyyappan

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Principles of Organic Farming is a practical oriented text to organic crop management that provides background information as well as details of ecology-improving practices. This book is meant to give the reader a holistic appreciation of the principles and importance of organic farming and to suggest ecologically sound practices that help to develop and maintain sustainable agriculture. This book represents a current and uated look at what we know about organic farming practices and systems, primarily from the Indian perspectives.

This book is intended as a professional basic textbook for undergraduate level students and will specifically meet out the requirement of the students of organic farming being taught in all the agricultural universities across the globe. In addition, the purpose of this work is to spread the basic concepts of organic farming in order to; guide the production systems towards a sustainable agriculture and ecologically safe, obtain harmless products of higher quality, contribute to food security, generating income through the access to markets and improve working conditions of farmers and their neighborhoods.

This book provides attention of one and all concerned to promote organic farming as a measure to provide the elites to posterity and to save our farm land that inherited from forefathers from being degraded and made in to wastelands through our excessive interventions.

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Author Biography

E. Somasundaram, Professor and Head of the Department of Sustainable Organic Agriculture, Directorate of Crop Management, and PRO of Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

D. Udhaya Nandhini, Post Doctoral Fellow, Centre of Excellence in Sustaining Soil Health, ADAC & RI, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Trichy,Tamil Nadu, India

M. Meyyappan B.Sc. (Ag.), M.Sc. (Ag.) Agronomy and Ph.D in Agronomy from Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar, Chidambaram, Tamil Nadu 608 002, India

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Bibliographic Information

  • Publisher/Imprint NIPA, New Delhi, India / NIPA
  • Publication Date July 2019
  • Orginal LanguageEnglish
  • ISBN/Identifier 9789387973718
  • Publication Country or regionIndia
  • FormatHardback
  • Primary Price 51.47 USD
  • Pages410
  • ReadershipProfessional and Scholarly
  • Publish StatusPublished
  • Original Language TitleEnglish
  • Original Language AuthorsEnglish
  • Edition1st
  • Copyright Year2019
  • Dimensions229 x 152 mm

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