Climate Change And Agriculture

by T. Bhattacharyya, D.K. Pal

Overview

Rain fed agriculture is gaining importance throughout the globe in view of its inherent problem of low or sparse rainfall which is accentuated further by climate change. To sustain agriculture and other related activities, we need to know more about the soils and other natural resources including plants, insects and other biological elements which are experiencing climatic stress due to global warming. On the basis of expertise by a team of leading scientists from national and international organizations, the 16 chapters of this book discuss the issues and priorities for agricultural and related managements. Covering areas such as north-eastern Himalayas, semi-arid tropics, eastern and north-eastern India and the Indo-Genetic Plains with an overall global scenario of the rain fed agriculture, this book will be necessary for both the academics and policy makers in understanding natural resources and their management for sustainable agriculture.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789387813205
Publisher:	Arts & Science Academic Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	328
File size:	11 MB
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About the Author

Dr. Tapas Bhattacharyya was born in November, 1956. He is an agricultural graduate and a Ph.D. from the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi. As a Soil Scientist he is working in the National Bureau of Soil Survey and Land Use Planning (NBSS & LUP) under Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi for the last 28 years. He is carrying out basic and fundamental pedological research in terms of soil genesis, classification, survey and mapping. He has also been working for various national and international projects with special reference to soil carbon sequestration and soil carbon modelling to address global warming and climate change. He has nearly 100 referred journal papers and review articles in books. Dr. Bhattacharyya is now working as Head, Soil Resource Studies Division at NBSS & LUP, Nagpur.



Dr. Dilip Kumar Pal graduated in 1968 with honours in Chemistry, obtained the M.Sc. (Ag) degree in Agricultural Chemistry with specialization in Soil Science in 1970 and earned his Ph.D. degree in Agricultural Chemistry in 1976. Research activities of Dr. D.K. Pal, for the last 33 years on Benchmark alluvial{Indo-Gangetic Alluvial Plains (IGP)}, ferruginous and shrinkswells of India, expanded the basic knowledge in soil genesis,soil micromorphology, paleopedology. Dr. Pal has contributed immensely for the cause of soil science through his publications in national and international journals. Currently he is working as a Visiting Scientist at RP1: Resilient Dryland Systems,ICRISAT, Hyderabad.