Books by Ramesh Biswas

Nutrient use efficiency is a measure of how efficiently plants use the availablemineral nutrients to produce economic produce. Improving nutrient use efficiencyis very much essential under current scenario besides an understanding of thenutrient dynamics in soil-plant system."Enhancing nutrient use efficiency:Concepts, methods, and management interventions" is a comprehensive bookwhich has a compilation of topics related to enhancement of nutrient useefficiency of various crops and cropping systems. Although it depends on theability to plants to take up the nutrients from the soil, management practiceshave a key role to intervene the use efficiency. This book has 27 chapterswritten by eminent researchers in the field and addresses multifacetedapproaches to enhance the nutrient use efficiency. Improving nutrient useefficiency is a prerequisite to reducing production costs in the wake of escalatingcost of agricultural inputs in farming besides minimizing environmentalcontamination. Soil physical management is the foremost strategy to enhancethe nutrient use efficiency. Hand held devices are popular among the farmersfor nitrogen management in rice in several parts of the country, besides slowrelease nitrogenous fertilizers. Experiences from Long term fertilizerexperiments and soil test crop response correlation are of immense use tounderstand the nutrient dynamics in soil and in turn designing practices forhigher use efficiency. Besides describing the concepts and methods of nutrientuse efficiency, management practices for dry land crops and cropping systems,cereal based cropping systems, rainfed pulses based cropping systems, soybeanbased cropping systems, sugarcane based cropping systems, cotton basedcropping systems, tobacoo and oil seed based cropping systems, rapeseedmustardbased cropping systems and spices based cropping systems are alsodealt in this book and would serve as a resource guide for enhancing nutrientuse efficiency in various crops and cropping systems