The book “Climate Smart Technologies for Improving Farm Productivity” is a compiled version of lectures delivered in the training programme sponsored by the National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad. It consists of a total of 15 chapters that synergistically integrate various production systems for alleviating adverse climate change impacts and improving farm productivity. Each chapter is a contribution from eminent scientist(s) working in pioneer national and/ or international organizations. In each chapter, efforts were made to correlate the contents with adaptation and/or mitigation strategies to address the issues of climate change. This book starts with an introductory outlook of climate smart technologies and ends with varietal interventions as adaptation strategies to alleviate the adverse impacts of climate change. Important topics, such as integrated farming systems, livestock and fishery resources management, conservation agriculture, crop diversification for climate resilient agriculture, harnessing potential of solar energy, and of farm mechanization have been covered in some detail under changing climate scenario. This book also covers climate resilient weed management and crop establishment practices, crop residue management, nutrient mineralization, solar energy for clean energy and carbon neutral farming, enhancing water productivity, development of climate smart villages, and insect-pests and disease management strategies under changing climate scenario. One chapter is exclusively devoted to mushroom production, which is a typical example of low-cost production technology. In addition, the book also includes scalable technologies for sustainable intensification of small holder farms in Bihar. To our opinion, contributors have tried their best to focus on utilization of climate smart scale neutral technologies. However, individual chapter in the book conveys the perspective of respective author(s), and they are entirely responsible for advanced statements and opinions, if any. Editors firmly believe that this publication will prove to be highly useful to the researchers, policy-makers, students and all those who are engaged in the task of achieving sustainable agricultural development under changing climate scenario.
A.K. Choudhary, Principal Scientist & Head Division of Crop Research ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region Patna-800014 (Bihar).
Rakesh Kumar, Senior Scientist Division of Crop Research ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region Patna-800014 (Bihar).
Dhiraj Kumar Singh, Senior Scientist Division of Socio-economics and Extension ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region Patna-800014 (Bihar).
Ujjwal Kumar, Principal Scientist & Head Division of Socio-economics and Extension ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region Patna-800014 (Bihar).
1. Climate Smart Agriculture for Livelihood Security in Eastern Gangetic Plains..................................... 1 Ujjwal Kumar
2. Climate Smart Technologies to Enhance Land and Water Productivity..........................................13 Ashutosh Upadhyaya
3. Climate Smart Agriculture: Constraints, Issues and Potential Opportunities in the Eastern India ....................35 R.K. Malik and Ashok Yadav
4. Crop Residues Management for Sustainable Intensification in Rice-Wheat Cropping System Under Climate Smart Agriculture ..............................................................55 Narendra Kumar
5. Climate Smart Integrated Farming System for Doubling the Farm Incomes ............................................................67
Sanjeev Kumar and Shivani
6. Climate Smart Village and Its Role in Mitigating Climate Change and Improving the Farm Profitability.............85
Abhay Kumar, Anirban Mukherjee and A.K. Choudhary
7. Climate Change: Mitigation Options through Farm Power Machinery to Improve Crop Productivity ............97
Prem K. Sundaram, Rakesh Kumar, Bikas Sarkar, Pawan Jeet and Ashutosh Upadhyaya
8. Farmers Friendly On-farm Management Practices for Better Animal Health ...............................................................105
A. Dey, P.C. Chandran, Reena Kamal and Rajni Kumari
9. Fish Production for Doubling the Farmers Income Under Climate Change Scenario .................................................119
Kamal Sarma and Jaspreet Singh
10. Scalable Technologies for Sustainable Intensification of Small Holder Farms in Bihar.........................................................135 Raj Kumar Jat, Deepak Bijarniya, J.M. Sutaliya and M.L. Jat
11. Solar Energy Approach in Agriculture for Improving Farm Productivity ...........................................................................167 Atiqur Rahman
12. Climate Resilient Cropping System: A Way Forward to Sustainable Production..............................................................179 Rakesh Kumar, A.K. Choudhary and Dhiraj Kumar Singh
13. Improving Livelihood Security of Poor People through Mushroom Production Technology .............................................189 Sudarshan Maurya
14. Climate Resilient Weed Management Technologies for Higher Crop Productivity ...............................203
J.S. Mishra
15. Varietal Intervention for Improving the Rice Productivity of Drought-Prone Ecology .....................................219
Santosh Kumar, A.K. Choudhary, Rakesh Kumar, Surajit Mondal and Dhiraj Kumar Singh
