for sustainable agriculture and land management
Amir Kassam
Moderator
Global CA-CoP
URL: http://www.fao.org/conservation-agriculture
Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to regenerative sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical application of context-specific and locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil mulch cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (economically, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and/or perennials, including legumes and cover crops). These practices are complemented with other good agricultural production and land management practices.
[Sent on behalf of Dr. Bhag Mal, Secretary, TAAS, [log in to unmask]]
Dear Dr. Kassam,
I am sure you are aware that a book entitled, “Reorienting Indian Agriculture: Challenges and Opportunities” by Dr R.S, Paroda was published about a year back by CABI, London. This book nicely covers journey from green to an evergreen revolution. It also suggests the need for reorientation of Indian agriculture critical to address emerging challenges. It focuses on global agriculture, genetic resource management, crop breeding (including biotechnology), seed production technology, agronomy, innovative extension, motivation of youth (including women), climate change and policy reforms for improving farmers' income.
Further, this book has received excellent reviews from many eminent agricultural experts from all over the world (copy enclosed).
Considering importance of this book and its demand by the students, teachers, scientists and policymakers, CABI has decided, as an exception, to include it in open access category and reduced the price of hard copies by half. For more details, please see the following attachments:
• A revised flier, which emphasises on open access nature of the book with provision of an OA icon to be downloaded for the PDF version.
• Sample copy for social media posts
• Some impressive book reviews from many experts.
I, therefore, request you to kindly circulate this letter to your network members and also post details on your website. For procuring hard copies at now concessional rates (£39 / Rs.3,999/- approx), one can place orders with :
CABI Book Supplier (In India):
Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt Ltd
7/22,
Ansari Road, Darya Ganj,
New Delhi. ( INDIA ) Zip Code -110002
Telephone: +91-11-4077 5252, 4077 5214; 2327
3880, 2327 5880; Fax : +91-11-2328 5873
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CABI Publishing Sales Contact:
Tirumal Rao
Area Sales Manager
CABI South Asia Office – New Delhi
Mob: +91 (0) 9866000357
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Visit us at : www.cabi.org
With best regards,
Bhag Mal
Secretary
TAAS
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