The book presents a comprehensive overview of the potential areas for transformative Indian agriculture, focusing on innovations in science, technology, institutional, and policy affairs, with the goal of building a self-reliant India (Atmanirbhar Bharat). It addresses the challenges of eradicating hunger, poverty, and undernutrition, and offers interventions that prioritize inclusivity, sustainability, peace, and prosperity, as well as resilience to climate and other uncertainties. The book 36 chapters cover a range of priority areas, including: accelerated and sustainable agricultural production, doubling farmers income through diversification and market linkages, promoting entrepreneurship, leveraging innovations in science and technology, managing value chains and preventing post-harvest losses, ensuring remunerative prices and market reforms, implementing climate-smart agriculture, developing secondary agriculture, securing water resources, improving soil health, managing crop health and pests, adopting agro-biodiversity, investing in renewable energy, utilizing Artificial Intelligence, and creating a knowledge platform to transform India.Â
Theme 1: Agriculture Sector in India: Challenges Now and in Future
1. Indian Agriculture: Issues, Challenges and Priorities
P.K. Ghosh, P.N. Sivalingam, Debashis Chakraborty, Debashis Mandal and Prabhat Kumar
2. Innovations in Agriculture: An Overview Theme 2: New Trends and Future Research and Development in Crop Improvement
Jagdish Kumar, P.N. Sivalingam, Mallikarjuna, J, S.K. Jain Sridhar, J, K. Kiran Kumar, Sujay Anand and P.K. Ghosh
Theme 2: New Trends and Future Research and Development in Crop Improvement
3. New Plant Breeding Techniques and Current Trends in Plant Breeding Research
Kumar Durgesh, Gyan P. Mishra, Rekha Joshi and S.M.S. Tomar
4. Innovations in Seed Sector and Its Regulations for Atmanirbhar Bharat
D. Vijay
5. Innovations on Agrobiodiversity for Sustainable Agriculture in India
K.K. Gangopadhyay, Anuradha Agrawal, Gowthami R.
6. Innovations to Make India Self-Reliant in Edible Oil Production: The Story of Oil Palm Theme 3: Innovations and Strategies for Abiotic Stress Management
R.K. Mathur, K. Manorama, B. Kalyanababu, G. Ravichandran, K. Ramachandrudu and M.V. Prasad
Theme 3: Innovations and Strategies for Abiotic Stress Management
7. Natural Resource Management for Building a Self-Reliant India
Debashis Mandal, Nishita Giri, Gopal Kumar and Raman Jeet Singh
8. Innovations in Water Management in Agriculture
K.G. Mandal, Dibakar Ghosh, Amod K. Thakur and R.K. Mohanty
9. Innovations of Controlling Desertification and in Renewable Energy
Priyabrata Santra, Mahesh Kumar, N.R. Panwar, R.K. Goyal, H.M. Meena, R.N. Kumawat, Akath Singh and B.L. Manjunatha
10. Innovations on Climate Smart Agriculture and Structural Reforms for Self-Reliant India
Gouranga Kar and Ritesh Saha
11. Carbon Neutral Roadmap for Green India
Shrikant Badole, Dibakar Roy, Love Kumar Singh, Ashim Datta
12. Innovative Solutions to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
P. Bhattacharyya, S. Neogi, S.R. Padhy, P.K. Dash
13. Disaster Management: New Strategies
Joydeep Mukherjee and K.K. Bandyopadhyay
Theme 4: Innovations and Strategies for Biotic Stress Management
14. New Innovations and Approaches for Biotic Stress Management of Crops
Kiran Kumar, J. Sridhar, V.K. Choudhary, H.K. Singh, B. Parameshwari, K.M. Senthil Kumar, Bhimeshwari Sahu, Narasimham Dokka, P.N.Sivalingam
15. Pest and Disease Monitoring and Surveillance for Ensuring Food Security
S.N. Mandal and Parimal Sinha
16. Novel Approaches for Biotic Stress Management in the Emerging Production System
Jeer, M, Sahu, M.P.and Choudhary, V.K.
Theme 5: Innovative Technologies for Agroecosystem Development
17. Innovations on Farming System Models
U. K. Behera
18. Innovative Farming Systems for Self-Reliance of Farmers in Eastern India
M.S. Malik, P.K. Ghosh, Pinaky Rai, Nikita Kumari and Christina Minz
19. Agroforestry for Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Necessary Structural Reforms for Self-Reliancy
R. Kaushal, S.B. Chavan, A.K. Handa, R. Dhiman, D. Mandal, Chhavi Sirohi, and O.P. Chaturvedi
20. Innovations on Hill Agriculture: Research and Development
Anup Das, Lopa Mudra Sahoo, Subhra Saikat Roy, Jayanta Layek, Raghavendra Singh, G.S. Yadav, Saurav Saha, M.A. Ansari, Vinay Singh, Subhash Babu, K.P. Mohapatra and B.K. Kandpal
21. Innovative Approaches for Agriculture in Coastal Fragile Ecosystem in India
Uttam Kumar Mandal, Subhasis Mandal, Tashi Dorjee Lama and Dhiman Burman
22. Structural Reforms for Inclusive Agricultural Growth and Self-Reliance of Bundelkhand Region
Sunil Kumar, Gaurendra Gupta, A.K. Handa and P.K. Ghosh
Theme 6: New Science and Speciality Agriculture
23. New Vistas in Secondary Agriculture
Krishnasree, V., Sujatha R., Seema, B.R. and Archana, P.
24. Trends in Hi-Tech Agriculture Sector
Prabhat Kumar, S. Gorantiwar, S.M. More, Awani Kumar Singh and Pinaki Roy
25. Use of Space Technology in Agriculture: Innovations for a Change of Paradigm
Debashis Chakraborty, Sunayan Saha and Saurav Saha
26. Role of Digital Solutions in Agricultural Sector
Gopal, U. Shinde, Prabhat Kumar and P.K. Ghosh
27. Waste to Wealth: Innovative Ideas and Technological Initiatives
Shiv Dhar, Renu Singh, Manoj Shrivastava and Seema Sangwan
28. Post-harvest Management Through Convergence of Innovation and Technology
Sudheer K.P., Sreelakshmi, K. Unni and Vithu Prabha
Theme 7: Research and Development in Allied Sectors
29. Research and Development, Innovations in Livestock and Fodder Sector
Sunil Kumar, B.G. Shivakumar, S.K. Mahanta, Deepak Upadhyay and P.K. Ghosh
30. New Developments in Fisheries Sector Theme 8: Agricultural Education, Extension and Socio-economic Reforms
Gopal Krishna
31. Innovations and Reforms in Agricultural Marketing
R.S. Pundir, Ganga Devi and Rachana Bansal
32. Innovations in Infrastructure Development for Agricultural Growth
Pawanexh Kohli, Raka Saxena, Ritambhara Singh and Vinita Kanwal
33. Innovations on Extension Models for Self-Reliant India
P. Mooventhan, R. Roy Burman and Souvik Ghosh
34. Innovations on Agricultural Education and Policy
Prabhat Kumar and P.K. Ghosh
35. Structural Reforms of KVK for Atmanirbhar Bharat
Subrata Kumar Roy, Jyotirmayee Udgata and Partha Pratim Pal
Theme 9: Governance and Policy Reforms
36. Governance and Policy Reforms
P.K. Ghosh, P.N. Sivalingam, Debashis Mandal, Debashis Chakraborty and Prabhat Kumar