Soil Health and Sustainability in India (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Bhattacharyya, Ranjan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An in-depth resource that explores soil health issues in India

Soil Health and Sustainability in India delivers a comprehensive overview of the problems surrounding soil health in the different regions of India, The book documents both soil degradation and soil health improvements in agricultural systems. It looks at how to mitigate soil health hazards such as waterlogging, acidity, soil salinity, and soil compaction. It also discusses soil health constraints in different ecoregions and suggests potential solutions for enhancing environmental and socio-economic issues regarding soil in the sub-continent.

Past and current soil conservation programs in India are reviewed in detail to better understand how production and policy-related issues affect soil and water conservation. Incentives needed to address the most critical problems are also discussed. Encouraging results associated with watershed-scale soil and water conservation programs together with effective interventions to reduce land degradation and improve productivity are covered. Finally, pervasive physical, chemical, and biological soil health constraints present in different ecoregions are also discussed in detail.

Soil Health and Sustainability in India explores

• Deforestation and removal of natural vegetation through overgrazing and land use change
• Depletion of organic matter in soil, by excessive tillage, heavy machinery used for harvesting, and lack of adequate soil conservation measures
• Salt pollution from the textile, glass, rubber, animal hide processing, metal processing, and pharmaceutical industries
• Soil erosion by water, wind, and cyclonic storms, and different types of soil, including brown and red hill soils, alluvium-derived soils, lateritic soils, and podzolic soils

Soil Health and Sustainability in India is a timely resource on soil health in India. It is aimed at soil scientists, agronomists, industry professionals, and students of soil health, crop science, and agriculture seeking to understand India's soil conservation problems and find solutions to improve soil health in such a regionally diverse country.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 827
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780891187417
• Artikelnr.: 74732304

Autorenporträt

Dr. Ranjan Bhattacharyya, PhD, joined the IARI in 2011. Since then, he has been working on soil carbon stabilization and sequestration, nitrogen dynamics, soil health and crop productivity as affected by various conservation tillage, conservation agriculture, long-term fertilization, and organic farming practices and different land uses under diverse cropping systems and land configurations. Previously, he was a Scientist at the VPKAS, Almora. He earned his PhD from the University of Wolverhampton, UK in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Soil Health Insights From India ix Preface xi 1 Agricultural Ecoregions and Soil Health Challenges Within the Indian Sub-Continent 1 Shrila Das
Dibyendu Mukhopadhyay
and Ranjan Bhattacharyya 2 Soil Health in the Indian Himalayan Region 29 D. Mandal
P. Jha
Raman Jeet Singh
Rajesh Kaushal
M. Madhu
S. Barman
and Ranjan Bhattacharyya 3 Arid Eco-Region and Dryland Soil Health 70 Sumanta Kundu
Ch. Srinivasarao
V. K. Singh
and J. Naveen 4 Regional Soil Health Assessments: Central Semi-arid Region of India 112 Avijit Ghosh
Sukanya Misra
and Ranjan Bhattacharyya 5 Regional Soil Health Assessments: Eastern Sub-humid Soil Health in India 128 Dibyendu Chatterjee
Rajendiran Selladurai
Mohammad Shahid
Dibyendu Sarkar
and Saikat Ranjan Das Copyrighted Material 6 Coastal Region Soil Health: Problems and Perspectives from India 161 Uttam Kumar Mandal
V. Ramesh
Sudipa Mal
T. D. Lama
S. K. Sarangi
Sourav Mullick
Amit Ghosh
Dibyendu Bikas Nayak
and Dhiman Burman 7 Soil Health and Its Quality in Southern Peninsular India 189 K. S. Anil Kumar
M. Lalitha
K. M. Nair
Rajendra Hegde
and B. S. Dwivedi 8 Soil Health in Indian Vertisols 212 Pramod Jha
K. M. Hati
N. K. Lenka
B. L. Lakaria
M. V. Coumar
B. P. Meena
J. K. Thakur
A. K. Biswas
and A. K. Patra 9 Strategies for Restoring Soil Health in Indian Himalayan Region 243 Anup Das
Christi B. K. Sangma
Mahasweta Chakraborty
Saurav Saha
Amit Kumar
Bappa Das
Jaynata Layek
Subhash Babu
and Prashant Pandey 10 Strategies for Restoring and Enhancing Soil Health in India: Management Practices to Restore Soil Health in Arid
Semi-Arid
and Plateau Regions 320 Avijit Ghosh
Pramod Jha
Sukanya Misra
and Ranjan Bhattacharyya 11 Enhancing Soil Health by Mitigating Salinity in India 352 Ashim Datta
Nirmalendu Basak
Bholanath Saha
Piu Basak
Arvind Kumar Rai
and Rajender Kumar Yadav 12 Mitigating Soil Acidity and Waterlogging Impacts on Soil Health in India 385 Ruma Das
Samrat Ghosh
Khushboo Rani
Amit Phonglosa
and B. N. Ghosh 13 Conservation Agriculture Strategies for Enhancing Soil Health 423 Amit K. Dash
Abir Dey
Ranjan Bhattacharyya
T. K. Das
Arti Bhatia
and Shrila Das 14 Managing Crop Residue for Soil Health Improvement in India 451 Dibyendu Sarkar
Siddhartha Mukherjee
G. Pratibha
and Sumanta Kundu 15 Recommendations for Long-Term Soil Health Enhancement in India 487 Kuntal M. Hati
Ranjan Bhattacharyya
Pramod Jha
J. Somasundaram
B. N. Ghosh
Avijit Ghosh
and Douglas L. Karlen