Soil Quality Indicators and Indices in Semi Arid Tropics
Sharma, K. L. / Grace, Kusuma / Venkateswarlu, B.
According to the statistics of Food and Agriculture organization, agriculture is practiced on 12% of the total land area, hosting around 42% of the global population. Out of this area, about 80% is under rainfed agriculture contributing about 60-70 % to global food basket and plays a predominant role in global food production. In India, nearly 59.8% of the net cultivated area is rainfed. These areas are constrained by poverty, malnutrition, wa...