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ABOUT THE BOOK

Very often, we ignore or miss the basic knowledge or information on which the multi-storeyed, multidisciplinary approach of crop production stands. It is strenuous strive to keep pace with the progress of such a vast subject like agronomy which is in practice throughout the world. Efforts have been made in this textbook to collet; collate new concepts of agronomy into a single unit understandable to the undergraduate students and useful as a remedial course to the workers and scientist of agriculture, and allied disciplines.

All our strains will be worthy if the text containing basic concepts and scope  of agronomy, classification of crops, sowing and planting, crop growth and development, tilth and tillage,nutrient management, weed management, irrigation and water management, organic farming, crop rotations and cropping systems concisely dealt in separate chapters becomes helpful for whom this is made. The book will be very helpful for B.Sc. Agriculture students throughout the country as it covers nearby the entire syllabus for Agronomy courses framed by ICAR as suggested by 5^th Dean’s Committee.

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dr. Jagdish Choudhary is working as Assistant Professor in Departments of Agronomy, Rajasthan College of Agriculture, Maharana Pratap University of Agriculture and Technology, Udaipur, Rajasthan. He holds over 11 years of research and teachning experience. He has handled several research projects as principal Investigators. His work was appreciated on several plateforms. He has guided 6 M. Sc. and 2 Ph. D students for their thesis work and taught many subjects in agronomy desipline. He is project incharge of All India Coordinated Research Project on Wheat and Barley since 2008. His work and invented technologies are included in package of practices for Rajasthan.  He has published more than 30 research papers in NAAS rated journals. He attended several workshops, seminars and symposia.

L.L. Somani is Retired Director, Resident Instructions, MPUAT, Udaipur. He went To Waite Agricultural Research Institute, Adelaide, Australia for undertakinf post-doctoral work (1975-77). He has over 400 research and technical articles to his credit. He has authored/edited over a dozen of books related to Agronomy.