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Comparison of data mining approaches for estimating soil nutrient contents using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy
Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) operating in wavelength range of 350–2500 nm is emerging as a rapid and noninvasive
approach for estimating soil nutrient content. The success of the DRS approach relies on the ability ...
Balanced and integrated nutrient management for enhanced and economic food production: case study from rainfed semi-arid tropics in India
Soil degradation in the semi-arid tropics (SAT) is mainly responsible for low crop and
water productivity. In Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan states in India, the soil analyses
of farmers’ fields revealed widespread deficiencies ...
Carbon Sequestration in Indian Soils: Present Status and the Potential
India’s growing self-sufficiency in food production
and food stocks since independence suggest that
soils have the capacity to produce. Therefore, a review of
Indian soils and their capacity to sequester carbon; and ...
Assessing village-level carbon balance due to greenhouse gas mitigation interventions using EX-ACT model
Under National Initiative on Climate Resilient
Agriculture (NICRA) project, a range of climate smart
agricultural practices were evaluated with on-farm
demonstrations during 2011–2013 in eight climatically
vulnerable ...
Soil information system: web-based solution for agricultural land-use planning
The soil-forming factors, especially climate, vegetation
and topography, act on a range of rock formations
and parent materials leading to the development of
different kinds of soils. Through concerted efforts, soil
datasets ...
Soil fertility in flooded and non-flooded irrigated rice systems
The lowland rice system in Asia makes a major contribution to the global rice
supply and is often cited as an example of a sustainable system in which two or
three crops of rice are grown in sequence under submerged ...
Natural chemical degradation of soils in the Indian semi-arid tropics and remedial measures
Most published research on soil degradation in general
emphasizes the role of anthropogenic factors.
Even among the natural soil degradation processes the
regressive pedogenic processes that lead to the formation
of CaCO3 ...
Comparative Evaluation of Ground and Unground Pearl Millet and Sorghum Grain Samples for Determining Total Iron and Zinc
Rapid and effective methods are needed to analyze large numbers of grain samples for iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn) to select cultivars that are denser in these minerals. This study was conducted for the comparative evaluation ...
Bhoochetana: Building Resilience and Livelihoods through Integrated Watershed Management
Rainfed areas are hotspots of poverty and malnutrition, and are prone to severe land degradation of natural resources. Globally, 80% of
agriculture is rainfed providing 62% of the world’s staple food. With increasing ...
Diversification of rice (Oryza sativa L.) based cropping systems for higher productivity, resource-use efficiency and economic returns in South Gujarat of India
Continuous adoption of rice-rice cropping system has led to deterioration of soil quality
resulting in a serious threat to its sustainability in high rainfall zone of South Gujarat, India.
Therefore crop diversification ...