A textbook of Rainfed Farming

By Anil Chavan

Indian agriculture is a gamble of monsoon." Out of 143 m ha of cultivated land 85 m ha is rain fed, which is 60% of the cultivated land. Such land suffers from low rainfall, draught and excess rainfall. Despite considerable progress in irrigation development over the FYP, 85% of coarse cereals, 83% pulses, 42% in rice, 70% in oil seeds and 65% in cotton is still cultivated as rain fed. More over 40% of food grains production comes from dry lands. India will need 308.5 m tons of food grains by 2030 to feed the population. Hence Dry Land agriculture management becomes very much significant.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3659781967
• ISBN13: 9783659781964
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"