1st Edition

Smart Farming Technologies to Attain Food and Nutrition Security

By P. Parvatha Reddy Copyright 2024
376 Pages
by CRC Press

376 Pages
by CRC Press

376 Pages
by CRC Press

The concept of Rainbow Revolution is an integrated development of crop cultivation, horticulture, forestry, fishery, poultry, animal husbandry, and food processing industry. The concept of Smart Farming Technologies in agriculture is a step towards sustainability. India has already achieved resilience in agriculture, including the horticultural sector, through effective agricultural technology... Read more

Preface

About the Author

1. Rainbow Revolution: An Overview

2. Green (Food Grain Production) Revolution

3. Evergreen (Sustainable Food Grain Production) Revolution

4. Golden (Horticultural Crop Production) Revolution

5. Yellow (Oil Seed Production) Revolution

6. Pulse Revolution

7. Silver Fiber (Cotton Production) Revolution

8. Golden Fiber (Jute Production) Revolution

9. Pink (Onion Production) Revolution

10. Round (Potato Production) Revolution

11. Gene Revolution

12. White (Milk Production) Revolution/ Operation Flood

13. Blue (Fisheries Production) Revolution

14. Silver (Poultry Egg and Meat Production) Revolution

16. Green (Renewable) Energy Revolution

17. The Way Ahead

References

Index

Biography

P. Parvatha Reddy served as the Director of the prestigious Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) in Bangalore from 1999 to 2002. He also served as the Head, Division of Entomology and Nematology at IIHR and gave tremendous impetus and direction to research, extension and education in developing bio-intensive integrated pest management strategies in horticultural crops. Dr Reddy has about 34 years of experience working with horticultural crops and is involved in developing an F1 tomato hybrid “Arka Varadan” resistant to root-knot nematodes.