Conservation Practices for Efficient Resource Utilization

Conservation agriculture integrates environmental health economic viability and social equity to ensure long term productivity of natural resources and improved livestocks. It helps to reduce the risk in developing countries of complex problem like climate change and water scarcity important because agricultural constitutes approximately 70 % of water consumption in the developing world increasingly competing with demand for domestic industrial and ecosystem services. This research based practically usable book is intended for use by a diverse readership who are interested in best available technologies and practices for soil fertility/health management its intelligent use which can keep this practically nonrenewable resources healthy not for years but for decades. These include the planners policy makers and administrators soil scientists agronomists soil biologist microbiologists providers of mineral organic and biological inputs farm advisory personal of the agro-input industry students teachers researchers in colleges agriculture/ horticultural universities; their research stations institutes projects research centers of the SAU/CAU system.