Contributors ............................................... vii
Foreword .................................................. xiii
Preface ..................................................... xv
About the editor ........................................... xix
Section I: Water and agricultural sustainability challenges
1 Sustainable water systems for agriculture and 21st
century challenges ........................................... 3
Ramesh Kanwar
2 Challenges in securing India's water future ................. 21
Kapil K. Narula & Upmanu Lall
Section II: Sustainable water management strategies
3 Soil water management in India .............................. 29
R. Lal
4 Conserving and optimizing limited water for crop
production .................................................. 43
D.G. Westfall, G.A. Peterson & N.C. Hansen
5 On watershed management ..................................... 57
Hemant Chowdhary & Vijay P. Singh
6 Water management in northern states and the food security
of India .................................................... 71
G.S. Hira
Section III: Sustainable soil management strategies
7 Sustainable management of Vertisols in central India ........ 93
R.P. Rajput, D.L. Kauraw, R.K. Bhatnagar, Manish Bhavsar,
M. Velayutham & R. Lal
8 Sustainable management of dryland Alfisols (red soils)
in South India ............................................. 109
S.P. Palaniappan, R. Balasubramanian, T. Ramesh,
A. Chandrasekaran, K.G. Mani, M. Velayutham & R. Lal
Section IV: Soil and water quality management
9 Soil and water quality: Integral components of watershed
management ................................................. 133
K.R. Reddy & J.W. Jawitz
10 Water pollution related to agricultural, industrial, and
urban activities, and its effects on the food chain: Case
studies from Punjab ........................................ 143
Milkha S. Aulakh, Mohinder Paul S. Khurana & Dhanwinder
Singh
Section V: Soil and water management in dryland or
rainfed agriculture
11 Manipulating tillage to increase stored soil water and
manipulating plant geometry to increase water-use
efficiency in dryland areas ................................ 169
B.A. Stewart
12 Integrated watershed management for increasing
productivity and water-use efficiency in semi-arid
tropical India ............................................. 181
Piara Singh, P. Pathak, S.P. Wani & K.L. Sahrawat
13 Strategies for improving the productivity of rainfed
farms in India with special emphasis on soil quality
improvement ................................................ 207
K.L. Sharma, Y.S. Ramakrishna, J.S. Samra, K.D. Sharma,
U.K. Mandal, B. Venkateswarlu, G.R. Korwar & K. Srinivas
Section VI: Biotechnological and agronomic strategies
14 Biotechnology and drought tolerance ........................ 229
Satbir S. Gosal, Shabir H. Wani & Manjit S. Kang
15 Transgenic strategies for improved drought tolerance
in legumes of semi-arid tropics ............................ 261
Pooja Bhatnagar-Mathur, J. Shridhar Rao, Vincent Vadez &
Kiran K. Sharma
16 Viable alternatives to the rice-wheat cropping system in
Punjab ..................................................... 279
B.S. Kang, Kuldeep Singh, Dhanwinder Singh, B.R. Garg,
R. Lal & M. Velayutham
17 Weed management in aerobic rice in northwestern Indo-
Gangetic plains ............................................ 297
G. Mahajan, B.S. Chauhan & D.E. Johnson
Subject index .............................................. 313
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