Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies

About the Editors Pavan Kumar, Assistant Professor, Wildlife Biology, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, UP, India. A. K. Pandey, Dean, College of Horticulture and Forestry, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, UP, India. Susheel Kumar Singh, Assistant Professor, College of Agriculture, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, UP, India. S. S. Singh, Director of Extension Education, Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi, UP, India. V. K. Singh, Director, Indian Council of Agricultural Research-Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, Telangana, India.

List of Contributors viii

Preface xiv

About the Editors xvi

Foreword 1 xix

Foreword 2 xxi

Section 1 Food Security and Agrarian Livelihood 1

1 Agriculture and Nutritional Security in India 3
Shubhi Patel, Anwesha Dey, Rakesh Singh, and Ramesh Chand

2 Diversification for Restoration of Ecosystems and Sustainable Livelihood 21
Sanjay S. Rathore, Kapila Shekhawat, R.K. Singh, S. Babu, and V.K. Singh

3 Impact of Total Mixed Ration on Performance of Heifers and Homemade Concentrate Feeding on Milk Yield in Dairy Animals 37
A. Dey, B.P. Bhatt, and J.J. Gupta

4 Multifaceted Impact of Lockdown During COVID-19 on Food Security and Smallholder Agricultural Systems 49
Aishwarya, Meenu Rani, Bhagwan Singh Chaudhary, Bharat Lal, Rajiv Nandan, and Pavan Kumar

Section 2 Climate Change and Agriculture 63

5 Crop Diversification: An Approach for Productive and Climate-Resilient Production System 65Rakesh Kumar, Bal Krishna, Prem K. Sundaram, Narendra Kumawat, Pawan Jeet, and Anil Kumar Singh

6 Impacts of Climate Variability on Food Security Dimensions in Indonesia: Reference from the Nusa Tenggara Timur Province 81
Boubacar Siddighi Balde, Martiwi Diah Setiawati, I. Wayan Nampa, and Mohamed Esham

7 Knowledge-Intensive Livestock Resource Management in a Changing Environment 117
Avijit Haldar, Indranil Samanta, and Amlan Kumar Patra

8 Aquaculture Resources and Practices in a Changing Environment 169
Shib Kinkar Das, Amit Mandal, and Sachin Onkar Khairnar

Section 3 Water Management in Agricultural Systems 201

9 An Approach to Understand Conservation Agriculture 203
Anwesha Dey, Shubhi Patel, and H.P. Singh

10 Quality of Irrigation Water for Sustainable Agriculture Development in India 224
Bharat Lal, Abhishek Kumar Shukla, Pavan Kumar, and Susheel Kumar Singh

11 Agricultural Water Footprint and Precision Management 251
V.K. Singh, G.A. Rajanna, V. Paramesha, and Pravin Kumar Upadhyay

12 Drip Fertigation for Enhancing Crop Yield, Nutrient Uptake, Nutrient, and Water Use Efficiency 267
V. Paramesha, G.A. Rajanna, Parveen Kumar, M.S. Sannagoudar, and H.M. Halli

Section 4 Precision Agriculture 279

13 Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies 281
Amit K. Singh, Avijit Ghosh, Manjanagouda S. Sannagoudar, R.V. Kumar, Sunil Kumar, Prashant Deo Singh, and Safik Ahamad

14 Geoinformatics,Artificial Intelligence, Sensor Technology, Big Data: Emerging Modern Tools for Sustainable Agriculture 295
Abhishek Singh, Riya Mehrotra, Vishnu D. Rajput, Pavel Dmitriev, Anil Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Ram Sewak Tomar, Omkar Singh, and Awani Kumar Singh

15 Investigation of the Relationship Between NDVI Index, Soil Moisture, and Precipitation Data Using Satellite Images 314
Shilan Felegari, Alireza Sharifi, Kamran Moravej, Ahmad Golchin, and Aqil Tariq

16 Artificial Machine Learning–Based Classification of Land Cover and Crop Types Using Sentinel-2A Imagery 326
Ram Kumar Singh, Pavan Kumar, Manoj Kumar, Keshav Tyagi, and Harshi Jain

17 Geoinformatics and Nanotechnological Approaches for Coping Up Abiotic and Biotic Stress in Crop Plants 337
Abhishek Singh, Vishnu D. Rajput, Sapna Rawat, Ragini Sharma, Anil Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar, Awani Kumar Singh, Tatiana Minkina, Rudra Pratap Singh, and Shashank Singh

Index 360