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Conservation Agriculture in South Asia

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South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture ...
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  • 07 February 2022
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South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture in a dilema facing triple challenges: to increase production to meet the food demand of growing human population with a lower environmental footprint, preserve natural resources and mitigate or adapt to the changing climatic scenarios. Conservation Agriculture offers a number of benefits such as arresting and reversing the resource degradation, decreasing cultivation costs, making agriculture more resource – use-efficient, competitive and sustainable whilst increasing resilience to climatic variability and improving livelihood incomes in South Asia. The CA approach for managing agro-ecosystems is of paramount significance in improving soil health, sustained productivity and maintaining natural biodiversity. However, there is still a large knowledge gap in understanding of nutrient and water management in CA systems.
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Price: $32.50
Publisher: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Imprint: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing
Series: Burleigh Dodds Series in Agricultural Science
Publication Date: 07 February 2022
ISBN: 9781801463980
Format: eBook
BISACs: TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Sustainable Agriculture, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science, NATURE / Environmental Conservation & Protection
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1 Introduction 2 History and status of Conservation Agriculture in South Asia 3 Crop productivity and income in Conservation Agriculture 4 Soil health in Conservation Agriculture 5 Water productivity under Conservation Agriculture 6 Climate change mitigation and adaptation in Conservation Agriculture 7 Nutrient management in Conservation Agriculture 8 Weed management in Conservation Agriculture 9 Further upscaling of Conservation Agriculture in South Asia 10 Where to look for further information 11 References