Conservation Practices for Efficient Resource Utilization

¿The soil is the great connector of lives, the source and destination of all. It is the healer and restorer and resurrecter, by which disease passes into health, age into youth, and death into life. Without proper care for it we can have no community, because without proper care for it we can have no life.¿- Wendell Berry. Agriculture often places significant pressure on natural resources and the environment. Sustainable agricultural practices are intended to protect the environment, expand the Earth¿s natural resource base, and maintain and improve soil fertility. This book is prepared in such a way to cover wide range of topics such as natural resource management option for different agro-ecosystems, climate change, land management options, water management options, technological interventions, possible mechanization in sustainable agriculture and different farming systems options.