At present, there is no comprehensive text book on 'Soil Fertility and Nutrient Management'
and applied aspects suitable for farmers. This book will provide comprehensive
information on the subject matter and fulfil the needs of students and other
professionals. This book makes an attempt to present the available information
on soil conservation and fertility management for agriculture in a cogent and
easily understandable manner. This is a book containing all sorts of chapters
on soil conservation and soil fertility management for farming. Though this
book primarily written to serve as a text book/reference for the students of
agriculture in under graduate and post graduate levels and technologists in
developing organizations, it is hoped that this book will be valuable for
similar groups in the third world countries of Asia and Africa. This book also
serves as a valuable reference for the candidates preparing Agricultural
Research Services and other competitive examinations. Professional Institutions
in Soil Conservation, Krishi Vigyan Kendra's and Rural Institutions and similar
other Institutions would find this book very much helpful. The farmers may
refer this book to practice integrated farming and cropping systems as the
considerable emphasis is placed for obtaining maximum, profitable production
per unit area per unit time.
The book contains fourteen chapters which include all
aspects of SoilFertility and Nutrient Management such as Introduction, Soil
Fertility and Productivity, Source of Plant Nutrients, Fertilizers,
Bio-Fertilizers, Soil Organic Matter, Soil Fertility Management and Fertilizer
Use, Loss of Nutrient from the Soil, Organic Farming, Farming Systems,
Sustainable Agriculture, Nutrient Management, Agronomic Measures in Soil and
Water Conservation and Moisture Stress and Conservation in Dry lands with
adequate references. Each chapter is brief, comprehensive full-fledged with
respect to technical information.
It is hoped that the book will serve a good reference source
for those interested in soil conservation and fertility management for
agriculture.
Introduction
Soil
Fertility and Productivity
Sources of
Plant Nutrients
Fertilizers
Biofertilizers
Soil Organic
Matter
Soil
Fertility Management and Fertilizer Use
Loss of
Nutrients from Soil
Organic
Farming
Farming
Systems
Sustainable
Agriculture
Nutrient
Management
Agronomic
Measures in Soil and Water Conservation
Moisture
Stress and Conservation in Drylands
References
Dr. Panda SC
Dr. S. C.
Panda, born on 1.11.1939 at Kantipur, under Baisinga P.S. in the district
of Mayurbhanj, Orissa is graduated in Agriculture from Utkal University in
1962, post graduated from OUAT, Bhubaneswar in 1965 and Ph.D. from Utkal
University in 1972. He has involved in various research fields such as Rice
Research, Water Management Research, Cropping System Research, Plastic use in
Agriculture, research on weather study on rice based cropping system and Weed
Research as Research Scholar, Research Scientist, Chief Scientist (Water
Management), Associate Director of Research, Professor and Head, Agronomy,
Chief Agronomist (CSR) and Dean (Post Graduate Faculty cum Director Residential
Instruction), Dean of Research and Dean, College of Agriculture from 1962. He
has also served as Regional Coordinator, NDP (Eastern Region of India) in the
year 1987 to 88. He also worked as Programme Associate (Ford Foundation) in
Multiple Cropping Research at IARI, New Delhi and RRS (OUAT), Chiplima,
Sambalpur from 1969 to 1971. He has been working as Emeritus Scientist under
ICAR operating at OUAT, Bhubaneswar after retirement from Dean, College of
Agriculture, Bhubaneswar on October 31, 1999.
He has over three decades of experience in
teaching, research, rural development and agricultural extension. Dr. Panda has
scientific papers on numerous International and National conferences and has to
his credit of more than 112 numbers of research papers published in various
International and National journals. Also a widely accepted twenty one text
books entitled, Principles and Practices
of Water Management, Cropping and
Farming Systems, Dry land Agriculture, Agronomy, Crop Management and Integrated Farming, Soil Management and Organic Farming, Soil
Water Conservation and Dry Farming, Crop Production and Tillage, Farm
Management and Agricultural Marketing, Mechanization
of Agriculture, Soil Conservation and
Fertility Management, Post Harvest
Technology and Farm Mechanization, Rice
Crop Science, Maize Crop Science, Agrometeorology
and Contingent Crop Planning, Sustainable
Food and Nutrition Security in National Economy, Modern Concepts and Advanced Principles in
Crop Production, Contingent Planning for
Disaster Management, Principles and Practices of Organic Farming ; Organic Farming for Sustainable Agriculture and A
Hand Book of Agriculture aid value to
his name. Under his guidance and supervision, fifty students of M. Sc. (Ag.)
and ten students of Ph.D. have got their degrees. Presently he is working as
Consultant, World Bank and Sutra Consulting, Bhubaneswar.