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Agriculture Management Approaches AGRICULTURE MANAGEMENT APPROACHES Pankaj Kumar Saraswat, Khushboo Chaudhary and Meraj Alam Ansari www.delvepublishing.com Agriculture Management Approaches Pankaj Kumar Saraswat, Khushboo Chaudhary and Meraj Alam Ansari Delve Publishing 224 Shoreacres Road Burlington, ON L7L 2H2 Canada www.delvepublishing.com Email: [email protected] e-book Edition 2023 ISBN: 978-1-77469-550-0 (e-book) This book contains information obtained from highly regarded resources. Reprinted material sources are indicated and copyright remains with the original owners. Copyright for images and other graphics remains with the original owners as indicated. A Wide variety of references are listed. Reasonable efforts have been made to publish reliable data. Authors or Editors or Publish- ers are not responsible for the accuracy of the information in the published chapters or conse- quences of their use. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or grievance to the persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or thoughts in the book. The authors or editors and the publisher have attempted to trace the copyright holders of all material reproduced in this publication and apologize to copyright holders if permission has not been obtained. If any copyright holder has not been acknowledged, please write to us so we may rectify. Notice: Registered trademark of products or corporate names are used only for explanation and identification without intent of infringement. © 2023 Delve Publishing ISBN: 978-1-77469-406-0 (Hardcover) Delve Publishing publishes wide variety of books and eBooks. For more information about Delve Publishing and its products, visit our website at www.delvepublishing.com. DEDICATION Dedicated to My Parents Mr. Rakesh Chaudhary Mrs. Ajesh Chaudhary ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dr. Pankaj Kumar Saraswat graduated from R.B.S. College Bichpuri (Agra University) Agra in 1996, completed post-graduate and Ph.D. in Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry from Banaras Hindu University Varanasi in 1999 and 2004, respectively. Dr. Saraswat started his career at H.N.B.G. University Srinagar Garhwal Uttrakhand in 2005 as a lecturer in Soil Science and moved as Subject Matter Specialist (Soil Science) to KVK Banasthali Vidyapith Tonk Rajasthan. In October 2015, Dr. Saraswat joined ICAR-RC for N.E.H Region Umiam as Sr. Scientist & Head at KVK Tamenglong Manipur. Dr. Saraswat as P.I. completed two research projects externally funded from SERC-DST Govt. of India New Delhi and DST-Govt. of Rajasthan Jaipur. At the same time, he also conducted four INSPIRE-Internship Science Camps under the SEAT program of DST for 10th pass top 1% students of Rajasthan. Presently Dr. Saraswat has been working on agricultural technology assessment and demonstrations for its wider application at farmers’ fields along with capacity development programs for farmers, farm women, rural youth, line departments and other stakeholders and also as P.I. in an NEC Shillong funded demonstration based projects in Tamenglong district Manipur. Dr. Khushboo Chaudhary is presently working as a Research Associate in NRCE, Hisar Haryana, India and has 1 year of teaching experience. Previously, she worked on “Improvement of Phytoremediation efficiency of Fluoride”. She has published several research papers in international and national journals. She has published three international textbooks. She has got seven best paper and poster presentation awards from the Indian Society of Genetics and Biotechnology Research and Development and received the president appreciation awards also at the International Conference. She has got the best poster award from ISSGPU Central Institute Research on Goats, Makhdoom. She has published several gene banks in NCBI Pubmed. She has also published a research article in a virology journal. She is likely to be a co-author in several publications and coauthor in J. Virological Methods. Dr. Meraj Alam Ansari is presently working as a Scientist under the Agronomy Division from ICAR-RC for NEH Region, Manipur Centre Imphal. Dr. Ansari M.Sc. (Agriculture) Agronomy from CSA University of Agril & Technology Kanpur and Ph.D. from IARI New Delhi joined Agricultural Research. He is a Scientist, Agronomy at ICAR-RC for NEH Region, Manipur Centre Imphal, he has been engaged in farming system research including soil management crop production and the development of integrated farming system (IFS) model suitable and profitable for Jhumland hill farming.