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Modern Concepts and Advances Principles in Crop Production

 
S C Panda (Author)
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This book entitled Modern Concepts and Advanced Principles in Crop Production is written to serve a text/reference/guide book for the students of agriculture, agricultural meteorology, agronomy, veterinary, soil conservation, agricultural engineering-farm machinery and power, Agricultural Economics and field practitioners. The book fills the need for an up-to-date comprehensive text on Increase the crop production by controlling the physical environment and more accurate forecasting for the students at under graduate and post graduate levels. Forecasting may be of weather, it may be the predictions of crop yield and quality, or it may the estimation of livestock production and climatic hazards. The control of the physical environment consists in preventing frost, growing windbreaks, adopting flood control measures, controlling temperature and humidity in livestock barns. Contingent crop planning for different aberrant weather situations like flood, drought, cyclone, hail storm, land slide, heat and cold waves, epidemic out breaks and industrial hazards should be taken up in appropriate time to increase the crop production minimizing the loss or damage for adopting alternate methods or techniques for management.

This book will be of immense use in imparting knowledge on the basic principles and applied aspects of the agricultural meteorology, Natural disasters and its management and contingent crop planning for increasing crop production through the greenhouse and adopting modern scientific agricultural practices for students, teachers, scientists, extension workers and professionals engaged in agricultural development.

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About the author

S C Panda

Dr. S.C. Panda, born on 01-11-1939 at Kantipur, Mayurbhanj, is graduated in Agriculture from Utkal University in 1962, Post graduated from OUAT, Bhubaneswar in 1965 and Ph.D. Utkal University in 1972. He has involved in various research fields such as Rice Research, Water Management Research, Cropping System Research, Plastic Use in Agriculture, research on weather study on rice based cropping system and weed research as Research Scholar, Research Scientist, Chief Scientist (Water Management), Associate Director of Research, Professor and Head, Agronomy, Chief Agronomist (CSR) and Den (Post Graduate Faculty-cum-Director Residential Instruction) Dean of Research and Dean college of Agriculture from 1962. He has also served as Regional Co-ordinator, NDP (Eastern Region of India) in the year 1987-88. He has over three decades of experience in teaching research, rural development and agricultural extension. Dr. Panda has scientific papers on numerous International and National conferences and has to his credit of more than 102 numbers of research papers published in various international and national journals. Under his guidance and supervision, fifty students of M.Sc. Ag. And ten students of Ph.D. have got their degrees. Presently he is working as Emeritus Scientist under ICAR operating of OUAT, Bhubneswar.

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Bibliographic information

Title Modern Concepts and Advances Principles in Crop Production
Author S C Panda
Format Hardcover
Date published: 01.01.2012
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Agrobios (India)
Language: English
isbn 9788177544350
length xl+728p., References; Index; 24cm.