The New
Education Policy 2020 (NEP-2020) of India has proposed several changes in the
present higher
agriculture education system such as holistic multidisciplinary education while
continuing focus
on agriculture and developing professionals with the ability to understand
anduse local knowledge, traditional knowledge and emerging technologies, while
being cognizant ofcritical issues of declining profitability and/or
productivity but enhanced economic aspirations offarmers, climate change, food
sufficiency, etc. The rainfed production systems in a watershedinclude i) crop
and cropping systems; ii) diversified land use including agro-forestry,
drylandhorticulture including fruit trees on homestead, farmland, fisheries,
etc, iii) livestock and animalhusbandry including poultry, pisciculture
(fishery), rabbit rearing, apiculture, etc, and iv)grazing ground and pasture
including grazing practices, grazing/cut and carry systems, stallfeeding, etc.
This book ‘Sustainable Rainfed Agriculture and Watershed Management’ coversthe
local knowledge, traditional knowledge and emerging technologies on rainfed
agriculture,rainfed based farming systems, conservation agriculture,
alternative land use systems for drylandareas, wasteland Development aspects
and watershed planning and management from differentcountries that suite India
and neighbouring countries. Horticulture, agroforestry, seed spices,medicinal
and aromatic plants, animal husbandry fishery, livestock and beekeeping, etc.,
areintegral component of rainfed farming systems. As this book covers the
principles and practicesof rainfed agriculture, rainfed based farming systems,
agroforestry and watershed planning andmanagement, it is suitable all
agricultural universities in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka,African
counties, etc. This book will be a ready reckoner for under graduate students
ofAgriculture, Horticulture, Forestry and Agricultural Engineering as well as
to the extension
officers and
personnel interested in rainfed agriculture and watershed management. This book
can be also used
as a reference book for the M.Sc. (Ag) students in Agronomy. This book is
valid for a
minimum period of ten years.
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