Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

Muhammad Farooq Kadambot H.M. Siddique Editors Innovations in Dryland Agriculture ...

Innovations in Dryland Agriculture ...

Muhammad Farooq • Kadambot H.M. Siddique Editors Innovations in Dryland Agriculture ...

ISBN 978-3-319-47927-9 ISBN 978-3-319-47928-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-47928- Library of Congress Control Number: 201695953 ...

v Foreword Given the pressure on the world’s ecosystems, dryland agriculture—a sector that has been neglected in the past—is bec ...

vi tailor crop management practices according to the local climatic conditions. Practices such as residue burning and fallow per ...

vii Preface Agriculture provides the basic life requirements for the society, drives economic development and contributes to pov ...

viii areas around world. This book is divided into five sections and 20 chapters as detailed below. Introduction Chapter 1 desc ...

ix soil C sequestration potential in drylands and its management in diverse soils and agroecosystems. Chapter 18 discusses the ...

xi Contents Part I Introduction Dryland Farming: Concept, Origin and Brief History ................................ 3 Bob A. Ste ...

xii Breeding and Genetic Enhancement of Dryland Crops .............................. 257 Quahir Sohail, Hafsa Naheed, and Reza M ...

xiii Contributors Akhtar Ali Environment, Agriculture and Natural Resources Division, Asian Development Bank, Mandaluyong City, ...

xiv Muhammad Farooq Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan The UWA Institute of Agriculture, Th ...

xv Ahmad Nawaz Department of Agronomy, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan Ahmad Nawaz Integrated Pest Management La ...

xvi Admassu Tsegaye College of Development Studies, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia G. Venkatesh Indian Council of ...

Part I Introduction ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 3 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.1007 ...

4 development and practice of dryland farming in North America since its beginning in the latter half of the nineteenth century. ...

5 always implies farming under a comparatively small annual rainfall. Even though he coined the term dry farming, Widtsoe ( 1920 ...

6 upward water movement. Widtsoe ( 1920 ) also understood the benefit of spreading straw or other litter over the soil. He repor ...