Concepts of Tropical Agriculture

Indian agriculture has witnessed a remarkable progress during the past three decades. The Indian agriculture is standing at the cross roads because of the fast changing scenario in global economy of which Indian economy is an integrated part and agriculture continues to be backbone of Indian economy. The book discuss exhaustive studies on various aspects of agricultural sciences. The present book provides the state of agro-ecosystem vis-a-vis environment and outlines future directions so that sustainable agriculture is achieved without causing extensive damage to the fragile agro-ecosystem. The present book entitled Concept of Tropical Agriculture is the compilation of some most recent research articles of eminent scientists from different parts of the country. With its application-oriented and inter-disciplinary approach, the book would be immensely useful to everyone dealing with agriculture sciences, such as University teachers, farmers, academics, technocrats, politicians, researchers and postgraduate students as well. Contents Chapter 1: Alternative Agricultural Practices: A Sustainable Approach for Conserving Biodiversity as well as Developing an Eco-friendly Environment by Arvind Kumar; Chapter 2: Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Rice: A Review by M Senthil Kumar and S P Sundaram; Chapter 3: Indirect Organogenesis through Pseudostem Callus in Turmeric Variety Suguna of Curcuma longa L by M C Gayatri, V Roopadarshini and R Kavyashree; Chapter 4: Resource Productivity and Allocation Efficiency in the Production of Sunflower and Groundnut in Andhra Pradesh by Y Sudhakar Reddy and G P Reddy; Chapter 5: Identification of Radish (Raphanus sativus L) and Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) Varieties by Gel Electrophoresis and Isozyme Analysis by Adarsh Pal Vig and Navneet Kaur; Chapter 6: Effect of Different Levels of NPK on the Growth Behaviour of Leucaena leucocephala (Lam) de Wit and Yield of Zea mays L in Mizoram by U K Sahoo, P C Vanlalhluna and R Mohan; Chapter 7: Correlation of Physiological and Biochemical Characters in Seed Conservation Studies of Cucumber and Watermelon by C Vanniarajan, Sanjeev Saxena and T Nepolean; Chapter 8: Integrated Weed Management in Soybean (Glycine max) by Pardeed Kumar and Sat Paul Mehra; Chapter 9: Response of Eugeia bracteata (Wild) Roxb to VAM, Rhizobium and molybdenum Source by Ramesh H Ratageri and H C Lakshman; Chapter 10: Seasonal Variation in Population of Microtermes obesi Holmgren in Rose Plantations of MJP Rohilkhand University, Bareilly (Uttar Pradesh) (Insecta: Isoptera) by Sachin Srivastava, Sudhakar Gupta, Puspha Singh and Kamna Singh; Chapter 11: Management of Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer through Insecticidal Application and Varietal Resistance by Rabindra Prasad, Muneshwar Prasad, Rajesh Kumar and Devendra Prasad; Chapter 12: Medicinal Plants of Ethnobotanical Importance Curing Diabetes from Namakkal District (Tamil Nadu), India by M Rajasekara Pandian, G Sharmila Banu, G Kumar and K H Smila; Chapter 13: Consumptive Use, WUE and Moisture Extraction Pattern by Rapeseed and Greengram as Influenced by Fertility Levels and Straw Mulch by B Mitra, P Bose, B K Mandal and S K Hansda; Chapter 14: Relative Salt Tolerance of Selected Perennial Tree Species by B R Gurumurthy, M B Shivanna Naryan S Mavarkar and H V Rudramurthy; Chapter 15: Effect of Fly Ash-Soil Amendment on the Cultivation of Root Crops: A Case Study by N Tripathi, R S Singh, P K Mishra and P S M Tripathi; Chapter 16: Distribution and Uses of Euryale ferox Salisbury in Manipur by P K Singh; Chapter 17: Evaluation of Basmati Rice Based Crop Sequences for Productivity, Economic Returns and Soil Health by M S Sidhu and R Sikka; Chapter 18: Assessment of Phytotoxicity of SO2 and NH2 of Poaceae and Fabaceae Crop Plants by Nirmal Babu Rao, Amena and I Sobha; Chapter 20: Genetic Diversity Studies in Introgressed Lines of Gossypium hirsutum Cotton using Cluster Analysis by J S V Samba Murthy and N Chamundeswari; Chapter 21: Seed Borne Fungi of Celastrus paniculatus, Wild and their Control by R K Aher, L S Gund, A A Kulkarni and R R Saswade; Chapter 22: Effects of Neem Leaf Extract on Growth Characteristics and Organic Constituents of Trigonella foenum-graceum, L by S L Khapme, R K Aher, D A Bandal, G V Vyavahae, Y B Agre, D B Shelake and Miss R K Shaikh; Chapter 23: Study of Important Medicinal Plants from Parner Tahasil, Dist, Ahmednagar, India by S K Aher, V S Shinde, R B Ghogare, A R Thube, Y P Date, S R Paimode and A R Kale; Chapter 24: Phytochemical Studies of Ethnobotanically Significant Plant, Evolvulus alsinoides, Linn from the Tribal Region of Deoghar District of Santal Paraganas by B N Jha and S K Chaudhury; Chapter 25: Physiochemical Parameters and Elemental Analysis of the Soils of Sugarcane Fields with and without Red Rot Disease Incidence by S Velmurugan, R Narayanaswamy and S Ravi; Chapter 26: Inhibitory Effect of Hamidesmus indicus R Br on Calcium Oxalate Crystal Growth in vitro by T Vimala, S Gopalakrishnan and Y M Fazil Marickar; Chapter 27: Effect of Saline irrigation on Cholorophyll and Proline Contents in Selected Tree Species by B R Gurumurthy, S P Nataraja, Naryan S Mavarkar and M B Shivanna; Chapter 28: Interaction Studies on Bioinoculant and Inorganic Fertilizers on Growth Performance of Cole Crops by N S Kulkarni, J V Jaiswal and M G Bodhankar; Chapter 29: Sol-gel Synthesis and Photoelectrochemical Behaviour of Si-doped a-Fe2O3 by Anshul Agarwal, Yatendra S Chaudhary, Vibha R Satsangi, Sahab Dass and Rohit Shrivastav; Chapter 30: Assessment of Relative Efficacy and Economics of Chemical and Bioinsecticides for Management of Fruit Borer of Okra by Rabindra Prasad, Muneshwar Prasad, Rajesh Kumar and Devendra Prasad; Chapter 31: Fertilizer and Spacing Affect Cabbage Quality by Devesh Tripathi and Rakesh Kumar Upadhyay; Chapter 32: Effect of Fertilizer and Spacing on Days Taken to Head Formation and Yield of Cabbage by Devesh Tripathi and Rakesh Kumar Udadhyay; Chapter 33: Yield and Quality of Gossypium arboreum Hybrid (AKDH-7) as Influences by Plant Density and Nitrogen Levels by P V Mahatale, T K Tiwari and A V Patil; Chapter 34: A Comparative Study of Leaf Architecture of Three Plants Species of Family Solanaceae by Archana Nigam; Chapter 35: Association of Stability Parameters in Pigeon Pea by C Vanniarajan, P Rangasamy and T Nepolean; Chapter 36: Woody Vegetation Structure in a Sacred Grove of Pudukottai District, Tamil Nadu, South India by B Muthukumar, S Dhanasekar, S Soorairaj, N Nagamurugan, B Balaguru,; Chapter 37: Diversity, Relative and Rank Abundances of Predatory Coccinellids in an Irrigated Rice Ecosystem, Madurai, Tamil Nadu by M Khandibane, S Rahuraman and N Ganapathy; Chapter 38: Storability of Corcyra cephalonica Stainton (Galleridae: Lepidoptera) Eggs for Trichogrammtid Production by J R Kadam, S R Parate, A P Chavan, D B Kadam and B M Mhaske; Chapter 39: Stability Analysis is Sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L) Moench] by S P Patil, M R Manjare, S R Kamdi and A M Dethe; Chapter 40: Effect of Salinity on the Growth of Rhizobium and their Interrelationship Between Different Osmotica Like Aspartate, Calcium Chloride and Trehalose by S Manju, K Vijayalakshmi, C Sheela Sasikumar; Chapter 41: Integrated Weed Management in Kharif Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L) by A P Chaudhari, T K Tiwari, C B Gaikwad and A V Solanke; Chapter 42: Response of Rice (Oryza sativa L) Crop to Integrated Nutrient Management by K Henna, G Swarajya Lakshmi, B V Seshaiah and B Venkateswarlu; Chapter 43: Effect of Lactational Order on the Physico-chemical Properties of Milk in Deccani Sheep by A S Hulge, A P Chavan, S P Kalhapure, S V Kale and R B Walujkar; Chapter 44: Efficacy of Different Insecticides Against Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer (Leucinodes orbonalis Gn) by B M Mhaske, A P Chavan, D B Kadam and V C Girhe; Chapter 45: Somatic Embryogenesis in Bamboo (Bambusa arundinacea) by M P Meshram, Priti A Sonkamble, A M Sonkamle and D A Joshi; Chapter 46: Stability of Yield and its Components in Urdbean (Vigna mungo L Hepper) by Ch Mallikarjuna Rao, Md Mujeed Khan and Y Koteswara Rao; Chapter 47: Detection of Tomato Virus on Cumcumber by Rama Murthy, D M Sawant and G P Deshmukh; Chapter 48: Variation in the Morphological Characters of Brachiaria mutica Due to Urban Sewage Water Irrigation by S T Girisha and S Umesha; Chapter 49: Relationship of Mosaic Disease of Chilli with its Aphid Vectors by C Reddy, D M Sawant and G P Deshmukh; Chapter 50: Regional Agricultural Land Use in Bihar: A Sectoral Analysis by Tara Shankar.