Modern Techniques of Raising Field Crops with Colour Plates

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Salient Features Various aspects of crop cultivation have been included for making it a unified source of information under one cover. Efforts have been made to include latest climate resilient and biofortified varieties/hybrids to address the issues of climate change and eradicating malnutrition. Special efforts have been made to insert latest information of new pesticides which can be used as alternative to the banned pesticides for successful control of pests. The book contains the latest, authentic, reliable and readily usable information on important aspects of raising field crops for stepping up crop productivity.

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ISBN	9789354660696
Published Year	2022
Binding	Paperback
Subject	Agricuture & Horticulture
Pages	610
Weight	0.8 (In Kg)
Dimension	17 × 5 × 1.2
Readership	BSc Agriculture

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Chhidda Singh

Chhidda Singh is an Ex-Professor of Agronomy (Extension) at G. B. Pant University of Agriculture and Technology, Pantnagar, Uttarakhand. A gold medalist of the same university, he completed his BSc (Hons) in Agriculture and Animal Husbandry in 1963. He received a special fellowship and assistantship from the University of Illinois, USA, where he earned his MS (Agronomy) in 1965 and PhD in 1968. He began his academic career in 1969 as an Assistant Professor at G. B. Pant University. Dr. Singh later served as an agricultural consultant for World Bank–financed irrigation projects in Nepal from 1987 to 1997. He has authored more than 300 scientific and popular articles on crop production and has written five books in this field.

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Rajbir Singh

Rajbir Singh is currently Director of the Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute (ICAR-ATARI), Ludhiana. He has over 25 years of experience in research, extension, coordination, and management. Under his leadership, ICAR-ATARI, Ludhiana, achieved ISO 9001:2008 accreditation and made significant advances in technology application, frontline extension, and capacity development. He has published over 150 research papers, worked in advanced laboratories, and received several prestigious awards, including the Swami Sahajanand Saraswati Award (2016), Nanaji Deshmukh ICAR Award for Outstanding Interdisciplinary Team Research (2019), Fellow of the Indian Society of Agronomy (2014), and Fellow of the Horticultural Society of India (2016).

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Prem Singh

Prem Singh is an Ex-Principal Scientist at the ICAR–Indian Institute of Farming System Research, Modipuram. He completed his BSc (Agriculture), MSc (Agronomy), and PhD from Agra University, Agra, securing first rank and receiving bronze and gold medals at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, respectively. He has over 35 years of research experience and has participated in international training programs in Germany, Denmark, Spain, Nepal, and other countries. He has published and presented numerous research papers in reputed journals and is deeply committed to collaborative work with farmers.

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