6th Revised Edition of “Handbook of Agriculture” Published

The Handbook of Agriculture is one of the most popular publications of the ICAR with a wider readership. The present edition presents science-led developments in Indian agriculture, the ongoing research efforts at the national level and with some ideas on the shape of future agriculture. While information in some chapters such as Soil and water, Land utilization, Field and forage crops has been updated with latest developments, many new topics such as the Environment, Agrobiodiversity, Resource conservation technologies, IPM, Pesticides residues, Seed production technologies, Energy in agriculture, Informatics, Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Rights, Agricultural marketing and trading and Indigenous Technical Knowledge have been included in the present edition. For those who take intelligent interest in agriculture—and their number is increasing fast-the present edition would serve as a useful book.

The Handbook of Agriculture is a  treasure-trove of valuable agricultural knowledge for a large audience of scientists,  policy-planners,    researchers,   extension-workers,   students,   progressive farmers and other stakeholders. This expanded edition of the handbook encapsulates research information on the present science-led developments in Indian agriculture, on-going research efforts at the national level and ideas on the future needs of the agriculture. The contents of Handbook are: