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Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University Jhansi, UP, India
Dr. Arvind Kumar Vice‐Chancellor Source: RLB Central Agricultural University
Modern agriculture depends heavily on engineering and technology and on the biological and physical sciences. Agriculture not only contributes to overall growth of the economy but also reduces poverty by providing employment and food security to the majority of the population in the continent, and thus it is the most inclusive growth sectors of the economy. In addition, growth in agriculture significantly influences the growth of nonagriculture sectors, also. Within the agricultural sector, smallholder farmers remain central to agricultural development and continue to play important roles promoting an ecologically rational and socially available food system. The ultimate goal or the ends of sustainable agriculture is to develop farming systems that are productive and profitable, conserve the natural resource base, protect the environment, and enhance health and safety, and to do so over the long‐term. In recent past, satellite technologies available for agricultural applications promise to offer multiple benefits to the growers like estimating the timing of harvest, predicting in‐season yields, understanding water and nutrient status, planning crop nutrition programmes and informing in‐season irrigation, forecasting in diseases and pests, etc. Advances in satellite constellations, payloads, and launch are enabling increased connectivity and observational capability. Coupling these developments with “smarter” computing, data infrastructures, and analytics is increasing the possibilities for the use of satellite technologies for multiple uses in agriculture. While this creates new possibilities for products, services, and decision support, it also requires proper planning to ensure that the latest technology is linked appropriately with production challenges and, therefore, can be used to deliver the gains required to meet the societal, economic, political, and environmental needs.
The compiled text encircles updated information on sustainable agriculture systems and technologies addressing a variety of areas related to food security within context of sustainable practices, crop modeling, irrigation practices, micro‐irrigation, agricultural statistics, agricultural economics, climate change scenario, flood routing, spatial modeling, farmers income, and agricultural policy in the twenty‐first century. This book would serve as a hand book encompassing several scopes of interests on sustainable technologies toward reliable practices and income generation in areas agriculture, livestock, and fishery resources for sustainable agriculture as a whole.
This book would be beneficial for academics, scientists, environmentalists, meteorologists, environmental consultants, computing experts working in the areas of agricultural sciences.
Arvind Kumar
Foreword 2
Dr. Suresh Kumar Chaudhari Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, India Deputy Director General (Natural Resource Management) Source: Indian Council of Agricultural Research 08.06.2021
Agriculture is not only a key driver for inclusive growth of the economy in Asian countries but also has become means to elevate poverty, employment generation, and food security to the millions of growers, consumers, and other stakeholders in the continent. In addition, the forward and backward linkage effects of agriculture growth have also scaled up the incomes in the nonagriculture enterprises. Within the agricultural sector, smallholder farmers remain central to agricultural development and continue to play important roles for promoting an ecologically rational and socially available food system.
The primary aim of this book on “Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies” is to advance the scientific understanding and application of technologies addressing a variety of areas related to food security within the context of sustainable productivity, system diversification, irrigation practices, precision agriculture, climate change, crop modeling, big data analytics, farmer's livelihood, and agricultural policy framework in the twenty‐first century. This book will serve as a hand book encompassing several scopes of interests on sustainable agricultural technologies toward improved livelihoods, income generation and addressing sustainable development goals through agriculture, livestock, and fishery resources. A variety of scholars will also be benefited to explore risks and potential solutions in different agricultural systems under changing climate scenario, which can further be transmitted to the producers, policy makers, and other stakeholders. Further, this book will extend knowledge support for academics, researchers, and environmental consultant working within the framework of agricultural sciences.
I compliment the contributors and the editors for this worthy publication.
S.K. Chaudhari
1 Agriculture and Nutritional Security in India
Shubhi Patel1, Anwesha Dey1, Rakesh Singh1, and Ramesh Chand2
1 Department of Agricultural Economics, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
2 Department of Plant Pathology and Mycology, Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
CONTENTS
1.2 Growth of Agriculture in India 1.2.1 Role of Agriculture in Nutrition
1.3 Dynamics of Under Nutrition in India 1.3.1 Trends Over Time 1.3.2 Association with Socioeconomic Indicators
1.4 Institutional Interventions to Cope Up with Malnutrition
1.1 Introduction
India is a young nation with the advantage of demographic dividend. Demographic dividend
