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ABOUT THE BOOK

Healthy, sustainable and inclusive food systems are critical to achieve the world’s development goals. Agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 10 billion people by 2050. Growth in the agriculture sector is two to four times more effective in raising incomes among the poorest compared to other sectors.

Agriculture is also crucial to economic growth:

The growing impact of climate change could further cut crop yields, especially in the world’s most food-insecure regions. At the same time, our food systems are responsible for about 30% of greenhouse gas emissions.

Current food systems also threaten the health of people and the planet and generate unsustainable levels of pollution and waste. One third of food produced globally is either lost or wasted. Addressing food loss and waste is critical to improving food and nutrition security, as well as helping to meet climate goals and reduce stress on the environment.

THIS book introduces to primary aspects of NEW DIMENSIONS OF agriculture to enable our graduates to the elements of agriculture and challenges of agriculture production to meet food and nutrition requirements of growing world population more so of developing countries.

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS 

1. Dr. P. N. Kalla (Editor) Dean, Department of Agriculture, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur DOMAIN Agriculture Extension Education
2. Dr. S. L. Sharma, HOD (Agronomy), Department of Agriculture Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
3. Dr. M. C. Bohra, Professor (Soil Science), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
4. Dr. Geeta Mohan, Professor (Agriculture Extension Education), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
5. Dr. J. K. Sharma, Professor (Livestock and Poultry Management (LPM), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
6. Dr. Ranjeeta Soni, Professor (Environmental Science), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
7. Dr. Aparna, Assistant Professor (Genetics and Plant Breeding), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
8. Dr. Ramawatar Bajia, Assistant Professor (Entomology), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
9. Mrs. Sarita Meena, Assistant Professor (Agricultural Economics), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
10. Mr. Anjelo F. Denis, Assistant Professor (Agricultural Engineering), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
11. Mr. Sanjiv Kumar, Assistant Professor (Agribusiness Management), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
12. Mr. Praveen Bhardwaj, Assistant Professor (Agronomy), Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
13. Dr. Rajni Sharma Assistant Professor (Education) Department of Education, Jagan Nath University, Jaipur
14. Dr. M. R. Apoorva, Department of Soil Science & Agricultural Chemistry, COA, Rajendra Nagar, Hyderabad.
15. Dr. L. L. Somani, Retired Director, Resident Instructions MPUAT, Udaipur.

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Dr.P.N. KALLA is dean, faculty of science, JAGAN NATH UNIVERSITY, chaksu, jaipur. He holds a bright academic career and has served as professor and head, department of extension education at rajasthan college of agriculture and has superannuated in february 2015 as director, extension educationb, s.k. rajasthan agricultural unive4rsity, bikaner. He holds over 32 years of experince in teaching and research. He has guided 33 m.sc. (ag) and 12 ph.d. students for their thesis work. He has published several papers in journals on national and international repute. He has authored/edited five books and five manuals. Dr. Kalla has visited u.s.a., canada, israel, germany and ethiopia. He has been honoure with several awards including prestigeous “yuva ratna” award from the chief minister of rajasthan state besides best teacher award.