Adaptive Agro-Management for Environmental SustainabilityWydanie 1

This book documents information on adaptive agro-management approaches ensuring environmental sustainability. It covers recent sustainable agro-techniques of farming used in developed, developing and under-developed countries such as carbon neutral farming, organic agriculture, use of slow-release fertilizers, nano-agriculture, crop residue management, biochar, vermicompost, agroforestry, climate-smart agriculture, advanced water used technologies, microbial fertilizers, and ecological farming.

Features:

• Provides detailed contextual information on sustainable agriculture.
• Discusses adaptation of major agricultural crops against recent global climate change scenario.
• Reviews scientific advances in nano-agrotechnology.
• Covers various alternatives of synthetic fertilizers, their mode of action, and their efficiency and preparation methodology.
• Includes pertinent case studies.

This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in environmental science, agriculture engineering and ecological engineering, and sustainable agriculture.