Agriculture & Allied Sciences

Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture
New Research and Strategies

Editors: Nintu Mandal, PhD
Abir Dey, PhD
Rajiv Rakshit, PhD

Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture

Published. Available now.
Pub Date: June 2022
Hardback Price: see ordering info
Hard ISBN: 9781774630235
E-Book ISBN: 9781003184881
Pages: 624pp w/index
Binding Type: hardback / ebook
Notes: 17 color and 55 b/w illustrations

Soil Management for Sustainable Agriculture: New Research and Strategies explores the various soil management techniques and the latest improvements in soil management. Taking a sustainable approach, the volume begins with an overview of the elementary concepts of soil management and then delves into new research and novel soil management tools and techniques.

Key features:

  • Explains how clays are a critical component in sustainable agriculture with respect to carbon sequestration in conjunction with its interaction with soil enzymes
  • Discusses potential utilization of microbes to mitigate crop stress
  • Presents resource conservation technologies and prospective carbon management strategiesCovers the use of smart tools for monitoring soils
  • Shares a number of nutrient management approaches
  • Explores nanotechnological interventions for soil management
  • Presents techniques for the remediation of soils contaminated by metals and pesticides
The recommendations and future research directions presented in this valuable book will be helpful to students, researchers, farmers, and policymakers from the disciplines of agronomy, soil science, and natural resource management around the world.

CONTENTS:

Preface

PART I: CLAY: THE CRITICAL COMPONENT IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE WITH RESPECT TO CARBON SEQUESTRATION VIS-A-VIS ITS INTERACTION WITH SOIL ENZYMES
1. Advances in Clay Research for Sustainable Agriculture
Debarup Das, Sonalika Sahoo, Ruma Das, and Samar Chandra Datta

2. Clay-Enzyme Interactions and Implications
Ranjan Paul and Sonalika Sahoo

3. Short Range Order (SRO) Minerals and Implications in Sustainable Agriculture
Dibyendu Chatterjee, S. C. Datta, K. M. Manjaiah, and Nintu Mandal

PART II: POTENTIAL UTILIZATION OF MICROBES FOR STRESSED AGRICULTURE
4. Rhizospheric Microbes for Nutrient Fortification in Crop Plants
Shaloo Verma, Dikchha Singh, Malay Kr Das, Gyan Prakash Srivastav, Kumar Murugan, and Hillol Chakdar

5. Managing Abiotic Stressed Agriculture through Microbes
Chirsmita, Bhola Nath Saha, Shyamashree Roy, and Rajiv Rakshit

6. An Overview of Biochar Application on Biological Soil Health Indicators and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Ifeoluwa Adesina, Arnab Bhowmik, Harmandeep Sharma, and Abolghasem Shahbazi

PARTT III: RESOURCE CONSERVATION TECHNOLOGIES AND PROSPECTIVE C MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES
7. Resource Conservation Technologies for Sustainable Soil Management
Abir Dey, Pravin K. Upadhyay, Mahesh C. Meena, and Brahma S. Dwivedi

8. Soil Organic Carbon, Its Retention, and Implication for Sustainable Agriculture
Anupam Das, Suborna Roy Choudhury, and Samrat Ghosh

9. Hydrothermal Sensitivity of Soil Organic Carbon under Imminent Moisture and Temperature Stress
Avijit Ghosh, Abir Dey, Ranjan Bhattacharyya, M. C. Manna, and S. K. Chaudhari

PART IV: SMART TOOLS FOR MONITORING SOILS
10. Application of Remote Sensing Technology for Estimation of Soil Moisture
Koushik Banerjee and Bappa Das

11. Spectral and Smartphone-Based Tools to Monitor Plant and Soil Nitrogen Status for Site-Specific N Management in Crop Plants
Gopal Ramdas Mahajan, Bappa Das, Bhaskar Gaikwad, Dayesh Murgaokar, Kiran Patel, and Rahul M Kulkarni

12. Innovative Extension Approaches for Diffusion of Nutrient Management Technologies
Sujit Sarkar, G. S. Mahra, V. Lenin, R. N. Padaria, and R. R. Burman

PART V: NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT APPROACHES
13. The Panorama of Phosphorus Fertilization in Crop Production
Trisha Roy, I. Rashmi, Abhijit Sarkar, and K. Justin George

14. Novel Potassium Management Strategies for Improvement of Soil Health
Rajeev Padbhushan, Amarjeet Kumar, Upendra Kumar, Arun Kumar, Ragini Kumari, and Anshuman Kohli

15. Micronutrient Management in Soils and the Route to Biofortification
Amit Kumar Pradhan, Kasturikasen Beura, and Mahendra Singh

PART VI: NANOTECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS
16. Escalating Nutrient Use Efficiency through Nanotechnological Intercessions
Akhila Nand Dubey, Samrat Adhikary, Satdev, Nintu Mandal, and Nilanjan Chattopadhyay

17. Hydrogel Formulations for Increasing Input Use Efficiency in Agriculture
Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar and Anupama Singh

18. Nanotechnological Interventions for Increasing Nutrient Use Efficiency in Horticultural Crops
Nintu Mandal, Satdev, Chandini, Manoj Kundu, and Hidaytulla Mir

19. Advances in Micronutrient Fertilizer Production and Its Efficacy in Plant Nutrition
Mandira Barman, Rahul Mishra, and Vivek Trivedi

PART VII: REMEDIATION OF METALS AND PESTICIDES CONTAMINATED SOILS
20. Heavy Metal Pollution in Soil and the Remediation Strategies
Jajati Mandal, Debasis Golui, Prasenjit Ray, and Pradip Bhattacharyya

21. Advancement in Pesticide Chemistry for Sustainable Agriculture
Pritam Ganguly and Prithusayak Mondal

22. Resource Recovery from Bio-Waste for Agriculture through Composting and Microbial Technology
Pc Moharana, Avijit Ghosh, Md Meena, Nintu Mandal, and Biswas

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Nintu Mandal, PhD
Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

Nintu Mandal, PhD, is an Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. He has published 20 research/review papers in national and international journals and has authored one book, Agricultural Nanotechnology: Basics and Practicals. He also co-authored several book chapters. He has field one patent for “A Superabsorbent Polymer (NSP) and Process for Preparing the Same.” His current research areas are nanoformulations for increasing input use efficiency, soil chemistry, and clay mineralogy. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees from the Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. During his MSc, he received an ICAR Junior Research Fellowship, followed by ICAR Senior Research Fellowship, IARI Merit Scholarship and UGC Junior Research and DST INSPIRE Fellowship during his PhD tenure. He received an Indian Society of Soil Science (ISSS) Zonal Award (North Zone) (2011) for best presentation of an MSc dissertation. Other awards include the Indian Society of Soil Science (ISSS) Best Doctoral Thesis Award 2015 for Outstanding Doctoral Research and Dr. S. P. Raychaudhary Gold Medal for Outstanding Doctoral Research.

Abir Dey, PhD
Agricultural Research Scientist, Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India

Abir Dey, PhD, is an Agricultural Research Scientist in the Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-IARI, New Delhi, India. He published 19 research/review papers in national and international journals. He also co-authored one book and several book chapters. His current research areas are conservation agriculture, soil carbon dynamics, quality of soil organic matter, soil fertility, and plant nutrition. He earned his MSc and PhD degrees from the Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India.. During his MSc he received an ICAR Junior Research Fellowship, followed by an ICAR Senior Research Fellowship, IARI Merit Scholarship, and UGC Junior Research Fellowship during his PhD tenure. He received the Indian Society of Soil Science (ISSS) Zonal Award (North Zone) for best presentation of MSc dissertation. He received the Golden Jubilee Award for Outstanding Doctoral Research in Fertilizer Usage by the Fertilizer Association of India and the ISSS Commendation Certificate for Best Presentation of Doctoral Research Work done in Soil Science.

Rajiv Rakshit, PhD
Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India

Rajiv Rakshit, PhD, is an Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist in the Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Bihar Agricultural University, Sabour, Bhagalpur, Bihar, India. He has published 25 research/review papers in national and international journals and has co-authored five book chapters. He has also reviewed many research papers for internationally reputed journals. His research interest is focused on soil quality, soil microbial interactions, soil carbon, and nutrient dynamics. His aim is to improve the understanding of how fertilization affects nutrient cycling and microbial interactions in soils. Dr. Rakshit received his MSc and PhD degrees from the Division of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India. During his MSc, he received an ICAR Junior Research Fellowship followed by IARI merit scholarship during his doctoral program.




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