Participatory approaches to enhance farm productivity of salt affected soils

Abstract

The book entitled “Participatory Approaches to Enhance Farm Productivity of Salt Affected Soils” is focused to enhance practitioners’, knowledge and skills in the effective application of participatory approaches for accelerating the adoption of appropriate and improved technologies for livelihood security of sodic land farmers and to strengthen their capacities for communicating the participatory approaches to stake holders for enhancing farm productivity of salt affected soils. The book covers wide range of topics comprising concepts of participatory approaches, experiences in agricultural technology dissemination, recourse conservation, integrated farming system, on farm water management, nutrient management, plant protection, weed management and crop diversification approaches under sodic environment based on experiences while working in field with people’s participation. This publication will help the researchers, extension workers and developers in the field of agriculture to deal with participatory technology development processes.