food soil conservation and pest management

Integrated Pest Management - Integrated pest management (IPM) refers to techniques of managing the pest by making use of cultural, chemical and biological methods in the form of integrated module (specific to each crop and each situation)...

Promoting the sustainable system of agriculture which encourages use of as less chemicals as possible in agricultural operation. Reduced use of fertilizers in a method called Integrated Farming System - which promotes the use of all natural resources along with fertilizers. Replacement of c..

Mutual relation exists between forests (trees), rainfall concentration, the amount of water in rivers and conservation of wild animals. Felling of forest trees (deforestation) decreases the rainfall in that area. Due to less rainfall, new trees will not germinate and grow, production of h..

. For example, more land was converted to cropland in the thirty years since 1950 than had been converted in the whole of the period 1700 to 1850 (The Biodiversity Synthesis Report in the UN Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project). Forty percent of the earth's land surface is now used to grow crop..

1) Indiscriminate deforestation should be prohibited. 2) Wastage of timber and fuel wood to be avoided. 3) Alternative sources of energy, such as biogas should be used to supplement fuel wood. 4) Forest fires should be prevented. 5) Pests and diseases of the forest trees should be contro..

Summary - Although India's food production has increased by 300 percent, percapita availability of food has reduced, in the last 50 years. Human food needs are met by cereals, millets, pulses, oilseeds, fishes, milk products, poultry birds, eggs and fishes. There is se..

Crop Production - Crop improvement technologies improve the potentialities of higher yield and food quality in crops. New varieties and hybrids of various crops released by various crop improvement techniques are ultimately aimed to increase the yield and better quality. But, these potent..

Sustainable Agriculture - Crop yields remaining stagnant, pesticides polluting the eco-systems, increasing cost of fertilizers, reducing soil fertility, imbalance in host - parasite and predator - parasite relationships have pushed agriculture into dangerous mode. Scientists have looked b..

Rotation of crops improves the fertility of the soil and hence, brings about an increase in the production of food grains. Rotation of crops helps in saving on nitrogenous fertilizers, because leguminous plants grown during the rotation of crops can fix atmospheric nitrogen..

1) They enrich the soil with their excreta 2) Insects help in pollination and some birds and animals help in dispersal of fruits and seeds. 3) Burrowing animals like earthworm make soil porous to facilitate plant growth. 4) They provide food (meat, eggs, oil) fur, woo..