Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture

lt;b>Prof. Arvind Kumar, a renowned educationist and researcher having more than four decades of experience has been given the responsibility since May, 2014 by the President of India as first Vice Chancellor of Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi to develop the campus and academic programme as an Institution of National Importance. Prior to this assignment Prof. Kumar worked as Deputy Director General (Education), ICAR, New Delhi from 2009-2014, held the additional charge of Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR, New Delhi about 5 months and was the Director of Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research (DRMR), Bharatpur from 2002 to 2009. He is Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2012) and Fellow of International society of Noni Science (2018). He has been president of Indian Society of Oil Seeds (ISOS), Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA) and Society for Rapeseed Mustard Research (SRMR). Dr. Kumar received the Life time Achievement Award for his significant contributions in Agronomy & Rapeseed Mustard by Indian Society of Agronomy and Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research. He has been the member of the Board of Management of several national reputed institutions like IARI, GBPUA&T, CAU, Imphal, SKUAS&T, Jammu, NDRI, Karnal. During his professional career at GBPUA&T, Pantnagar for about 27 years, was involved in teaching, research and extension education and also assigned various responsibilities including Joint Director Extension. For his outstanding contributions to the field of Rapeseed-Mustard research, he was given "Membership" by the International Consultative Group for Research on Rapeseed, Paris (France), from India. Dr. Kumar has been recognized for his professional achievements by several awards and fellowships. He has published more than 160 research papers in Indian and foreign journals, 90 popular articles, 60 books/ booklets/ chapters and presented more than 200 papers in National and International Conferences on aspects of oilseed research and management. He has vast National and International experience and visited 24 countries for Professional reasons.

Dr. Pavan Kumar is Assistant Professor at Department of Forest Biology and Tree Improvement, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, U.P., India. He obtained his Ph.D. degrees from Faculty of Natural Sciences, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. He did B.Sc (Botany) and M.Sc (Environmental Science) from Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India and subsequently obtained Master's degree in Remote Sensing (M. Tech) from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra Ranchi, India. His current research interests include resilient agriculture and Climate Change studies. He is recipient of Innovation China National academy award for Remote Sensing. Dr. Kumar has published more than 60 research papers in international journals as well as authored several books and presented more than 40 papers in National and International Conferences. He has visited countries like USA, France, the Netherlands, Italy, China, Indonesia, Brazil and Malaysia for various academic/scientific assignments, workshop and conferences. Dr. Kumar is member of International Associations for Vegetation Science, USA and Institution of Geospatial and Remote Sensing, Malaysia.

Dr S.S. Singh is the Director Extension Education, Rani Laxmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi U.P. He has served as Director, ICAR- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute, Kolkata, WB (2017-2020). Dr. Singh has handled 16 foreign / external funded projects on Natural Resource Management, Crop Management, livelihood Development and Crop Improvement funded by DFID, IFAD, USAID, BMGF, IRRI, CIMMYT, Ford Foundation and European Union. As Agronomist, he has contributed in development of five rice varieties which have been released by CVRC and Bihar SVRC and are suitable for aerobic drought prone, la

Chapter1. Drone Technology in Sustainable Agriculture: The future of farming is precision agriculture and mapping.- Chapter2. Revolutionizing Crops and Soil Resources' Resilience to Climate Change. A case for Best-fit Agronomic Practices in Low and High Input Systems.- Chapter3. Drought-resilient climate smart sorghum varieties for food and industrial use in marginal frontier areas of Kenya.- Chapter4. Optimizing nitrogen management for improved productivity, nitrogen use efficiency, food and nutrition security: African context perspectives.- Chapter5. Soil carbon pools under different farming practices.- Chapter6. Effect of conservation agriculture on energy consumption and carbon emission.- Chapter7. Plant Molecular Farming: A Marvelous Biotechnological Approach in Agricultural Production.- Chapter8. Examining the outcome of coupling machine learning with dual Polarimetric SAR for rice growth mapping.- Chapter9. Mapping prominent cash crops employing ALOS PALSAR-2 and selected machine learners.- Chapter10. Crop assessment and decision support information products using multi-sensor and multi-temporal moderate resolution data.- Chapter11. Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture: Advances for Smallholder Farming System.- Chapter12. Mobilizing Pig Resources for Capacity Development and Livelihood Security.- Chapter13. Agricultural Value Chains: A Cardinal Pillar for Future Development and Management of Farming.- Chapter14. Climate Smart Eco-management of Water and Soil Quality as a Tool for Fish Productivity Enhancement.- Chapter15. Advances in nutrient resource management for fisheries and aquaculture.- Chapter16. Conclusion.