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Soil Health Awareness: Soil Science at Doorsteps of the Farmers

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Title Soil Health Awareness: Soil Science at Doorsteps of the Farmers
 
Creator Wani, S P
Chander, G
Sahrawat, K L
 
Subject Soil Science
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Rainfed semi arid tropics (SAT) are hot spots of poverty and malnutrition, and
population explosion is further aggravating the problem. Out of 852 million hungry and
malnutritioned poor worldwide, 221 million are in India. Attaining food and nutritional
security for these regions is a big challenge particularly in view of climate change which
is expected to hit hard again these areas. Poor soil health in addition to water scarcity,
largely due to mining of soil nutrients and inappropriate nutrient management options
adopted by the farmers, is a major constraint leading to sub optimal crop yields (1-1.5
t ha•') and lower economic returns inspite of existing potential (2.5-7.0 t ha•' ). Poor soil
health is also responsible to low water use efficiency due to limiting nutrients and
exhausted C. Now, there exists a vicious poverty-food security-land degradation nexus
in which a farmer is trapped......
 
Date 2012
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6127/1/SoilHrealth_CP_2010.pdf
Wani, S P and Chander, G and Sahrawat, K L (2012) Soil Health Awareness: Soil Science at Doorsteps of the Farmers. In: National Seminar on , 27th to 28th Feb 2012, College of Agriculture, Nagpur.