1st Edition
Smart Farming Technologies to Attain Food and Nutrition Security
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 generation and is now on the threshold of a “rainbow revolution” that will ensure both household nutrition security and prosperity for its people.
This book will be of immense value to the scientific community involved in teaching, research and extension activities related to strategies for achieving Rainbow Revolution for enhancing farmers’ income, food, and nutrition security. The book can also serve as a very useful reference for policymakers and practicing farmers.
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.
