<mods:mods version="3.3" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-3.xsd" xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><mods:titleInfo><mods:title>Technology Frontiers for Soil Management</mods:title></mods:titleInfo><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">CH</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Srinivasarao</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Lal</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">D L N</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Rao</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K L</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Sahrawat</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">R K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Gupta</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">S S</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Balloli</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:name type="personal"><mods:namePart type="given">K</mods:namePart><mods:namePart type="family">Srinivas</mods:namePart><mods:role><mods:roleTerm type="text">author</mods:roleTerm></mods:role></mods:name><mods:abstract>The challenge of producing more food would be much greater in the coming decades&#13;
as the much-needed growth rates of food production is now supported by weak&#13;
land-resource base with several soil-related production constraints in lesser available.&#13;
cultivable land area. It is projected that by 2030 India will require a minimum of&#13;
304 million tons CMt) of foodgrains, 175 Mt of vegetables, 96 Mt of fruits, 170 Mt&#13;
of milk and 21 Mt of meat, eggs and fish. Climate change in terms of increased&#13;
number of droughts years, reduced number of rainy days, improper distributi~g&#13;
of rainfall, cyclones, hailstorms and other adverse events, besides several biotic&#13;
stresses are important challenges to achieve agricultural production and growth.&#13;
The need of the hour is to (i) refine the existing technologies to meet the needs&#13;
to contemporary agricultural systems, (ii) cope with the weather aberrations and&#13;
(iii) meet the demands of diversified food preferences of the Indian population.&#13;
Some of the technologies are discussed here after, which have the potential to&#13;
improve the soil health, protect natural resources such as land and water, safe-guard&#13;
environment, besides offering mechanisms to cope with the weather aberrations&#13;
and extreme events...</mods:abstract><mods:classification authority="lcc">Soil Science</mods:classification><mods:classification authority="lcc">Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics</mods:classification><mods:originInfo><mods:dateIssued encoding="iso8061">2015</mods:dateIssued></mods:originInfo><mods:originInfo><mods:publisher>National Academy of Agricultural Sciences(NAAS)</mods:publisher></mods:originInfo><mods:genre>Book Section</mods:genre></mods:mods>