Rice plays a unique role in providing calories to the majority of Asian and Latin American countries. The exploitation of high yielding indicas has brought a major break through in rice production. India continues to be a major rice producing country but the plateuing productivity is causing concern to every body. At the current rate of population growth in India, the requirement of rice by turn of the century is estimated to be around 150 million tons of paddy.
This book Useful for Agronomy.
1. Legends about Origin of Rice
2. Nursery and main field Management
3. Soil-Plant- Nutrient Systems in Wetland Rice
4. Management of Major Nutrients
5. Secondary and Micronutrients
6. Integrated Nutrient Management
7. Nutrient management by leaf colour
8. Biofertilizers for Supplementing Nutrients
9. Water Management for rice fields
10. Weed Management
11. Insect Pest Management
12. Disease Management
13. Rodent Biology and their Management
14. Integrated Rice-Fish Culture
15. Second Generation Problems after Green Revolution
16. Ecological Consequences of Intensification
References
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