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Agriculture is a complex system, and understanding of the system's behavior is too complex and involves biotic and abiotic interaction. Significant work in the past have been reported, which...
08 August 2016 4,349 7 View
N-fixation by various leguminous and non-leguminous plants is important and its quantification as function of nature of crop, crop growing condition, soil environment, soil N availability and...
02 February 2016 7,166 5 View
Examples of products/technologies- fertilizer types (customized, fortified, foliar, organic, PGP), newer pesticides, new cultivars, agri-implements, reource conservation technologies. Few Examples...
02 February 2016 6,896 20 View
In soil, there may be deficiency of N/P/K/Ca/S/Zn/Fe/Mn etc, everyone looks into one's compartment and gives excellent recommendation, which may not be application over space and time as many...
02 February 2016 6,210 20 View
Tropical and sub-tropical regions- higher temperatures, rate of OC degradation faster Residue incorporation- provides benefit to the current ongoing crop, may be next crop in rotation??? question...
02 February 2016 9,274 27 View
pedo-transfer function for computing soil moisture retention from soil texture are reported in literature, but the coefficient of prediction from independent datasets is very poor. Our interest is...
02 February 2016 8,672 9 View
Boron deficiency is becoming a concern n south asian environments. There is a need to identify suitable inorganic/organic materials, understand the interaction between various nutrients for...
02 February 2016 3,094 4 View
Nano-fertilizers, as published in literature, enhance uptake efficiency of the component nutrient, eg works reported in case of nano-zinc, but from cost-benefit analysis do not look quite...
01 January 2016 6,043 4 View
1. Lot of information on soil test values (spatio-temporal)) available 2. Soil quality indices e.g. SQI by Ratan Lal et al, Cornell soil health index, STCR network ar Indian Institute of Soil...
01 January 2016 8,581 28 View
Mineral N (nitrate and ammonical form) is highly dynamic, and is generally not measured by most of the researchers, who most of the time take total N or available N in consideration for evaluating...
01 January 2016 1,919 6 View
The concern of salinity/sodicity development makes us to identify alternate land use and management options for sustainable agricultural production. We are interested to specifically develop...
01 January 2016 6,972 6 View
Inter-sectoral interaction plays an imp role in evaluating the impact. Sectors have been evaluated in isolation, there is strong need to integrate them, we are all interested to develop the...
01 January 1970 5,600 5 View
Future scenarios of rapid change in land use and land cover change need to be linked with bio-physical and socio-economic aspects to evaluate the impact of climate change. Crop models are...
01 January 1970 9,016 0 View
Key words for this question are north-west himalayas, carbon balance, nitrogen balance, carbon sequestration, short- and long-term consequences, effect of climate change and extreme events on the...
01 January 1970 6,670 2 View
With increased population, the need is to produce more food. The answer is adoption of intensive agriculture. If this happens in soils poor in organic carbon, synptoms of soil nutrients...
01 January 1970 1,304 1 View
Soil managers for 1.nutrients managemen 2. water managemen 3. tillage management 4. lime calculator 5. residue management calculator 6. OC predictor 7. pedo-transfer functions The interest is to...
01 January 1970 7,006 0 View
Several soil quality indices reported in literature, most of them are non-operational on regional applications and confined to basic research platform. Soil biological health is generally...
01 January 1970 1,137 11 View
The major points coming into discussion could be: 1. nutrients use efficiency (agronomic, physiological as well applied) 2. target yield based balanced fertilization 3.scope of foliar nutrition 4....
01 January 1970 5,095 0 View
Net primary productivity, although available through satellite images and are commonly employed, but the validation with few of the case studies lacking. There is a need to evolve simple models...
01 January 1970 5,020 2 View
Soil health assessment to be used for irrigation/nutrients management, tillage options, identification of suitable resource conservation technologies Soil health assessment in terms of soil...
01 January 1970 5,935 7 View
Positive features to be within a researcher- Selfless service Non-materialistic approach Love to society Impartial approach Critically assessing own's work for direct / indirect relevance to the...
01 January 1970 7,364 0 View