ADVANCEMENT AND INNOVATIONS IN AGRICULTURE

India is agriculturally based country because our most of the population depends on agriculture field. Currently, 42% of the world’s population depends on agriculture for its livelihood and agriculture drives the economy of most developing countries like India. Therefore, human life on our earth depends on its sustainability. By the excessive use of chemical manures and fertilizers, insecticide and pesticide the soil health as well as human health also affected during recent era. So to maintain the soil health and their nutritional status sustainable agriculture is a Wright way. According to demand of future, way of agriculture also require changes.

Today various techniques are used in agriculture from field to market. In advance technologies like sustainable agriculture various techniques are used for crop production like use of integrated pest management (IPM), integrated nutrient management (INM) and integrated disease management (IDM), Application of Artificial Intelligence, precision farming etc. By the use of these techniques farmers can increase their produce quality as well as yield also. Now more than ever, people are trying to making the world a greener place. Therefore, it is compulsory on everyone in the agriculture industry to find ways to make their practices more sustainable. In this book we cover a few new agriculture technologies like protected cultivation, hydroponics, propagation methods of horticultural crops that are rising to the surface that focus on sustainability. The innovations like development of biofortified varieties of cereal crops which increase the nutritional level of food grains. In this book various objective like planning urban spaces, improvement in irrigation water use efficiency, use of nonconventional water sources in agriculture and development of management practices and crops that can adapt to the impact of climate change.