Advances in Organic Farming

Agronomic Soil Management Practices

Vijay Singh Meena, Sunita Kumari Meena, Amitava Rakshit, Johnson Stanley, Srinivasa Rao

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9780128223581
• eBook ISBN: 9780128223598
• Topic: Biological Sciences
• Subtopic: Botany
• Index: Biological Sciences

Advances in Organic Farming: Agronomic Soil Management Practices focuses on the integrated interactions between soil-plant-microbe-environment elements in a functioning ecosystem. It explains sustainable nutrient management under organic farming and agriculture, with chapters focusing on the role of nutrient management in sustaining global ecosystems, the remediation of polluted soils, conservation practices, degradation of pollutants, biofertilizers and biopesticides, critical biogeochemical cycles, potential responses for current and impending environmental change, and other critical factors. Organic farming is both challenging and exciting, as its practice of "feeding the soil, not the plant provides opportunity to better understand why some growing methods are preferred over others. In the simplest terms, organic growing is based on maintaining a living soil with a diverse population of micro and macro soil organisms. Organic matter (OM) is maintained in the soil through the addition of compost, animal manure, green manures and the avoidance of excess mechanization. - Presents a comprehensive overview of recent advances and new developments in the field OF research within a relevant theoretical framework - Highlights the scope of the inexpensive and improved management practices - Focuses on the role of nutrient management in sustaining the ecosystems

Table of contents

• Advances in Organic Farming
• Chapter 1 Concept and global scenario of organic farming
• Chapter 2 Conservation agricultural practices under organic farming
• Chapter 3 Soil fertility management in organic farming
• Chapter 4 Microbial community structure in organic farming and their management
• Chapter 5 Use of microbial biostimulants in organic farming
• Chapter 6 Remediation of salt affected soils through microbes to promote organic farming
• Chapter 7 Improving soil micronutrient availability under organic farming
• Chapter 8 Organic plant nutrient, protection and production management
• Chapter 9 Role of biofertilizers and biopesticides in organic farming
• Chapter 10 Toward the mitigation of biotic and abiotic stresses through plant growth promoting rhizobacteria
• Chapter 11 Organic seed production and certification with special reference to Rajasthan
• Chapter 12 Organic vegetable production and its impact on soil, environment and society
• Chapter 13 Toward the organic product certification: Participatory Guarantee System (PGS) in the certification process and the contribution of Ecovida Agroecology Network
• Chapter 14 Challenges and prospective trends of various industrial and solid wastes incorporated with sustainable green concrete
• Chapter 15 Conventional versus organic farming: Nutrient status
• Index