Research Advances and Challenges in Agricultural Sciences Vol. 8

This book covers key areas of agricultural sciences. The contributions by the authors include crop production, climate change challenges, socio-economic characteristics, food sufficiency, genetic variation, heritability, polymorphism, molecular profiling of mutants, forest fire, soil organic matter, nutrients, water repellency, post fire management, tillage methods, agro morphology, soil granulometric fraction, microbial community changes, walkley-black method, natural chemical fertility, simple agroforestry systems, mixed agroforestry systems, physico-chemical results, floristic diversity, polyethylene glycol (peg-6000), drought stress, radicle and plumule length, germination of upland rice, watershed programme, socioeconomic circumstances and crop productivity, increase the income of the village community, organic manures, cucurbits, azotobacter, biofertilizers, organic manures, internodal distance, chlorophyll index, vermicompost, enzymatic kinetics, polyphenoloxidase, Michaelis-Menten constant, maximum reaction speed, integrated pest management, technology communication, machine learning, farmers field school, carbon nanotubes, plant growth regulation, multi-walled carbon nanotubes, nano-torus particles, nano-photonics applications. This book contains various materials suitable for students, researchers, and academicians in the field of agricultural sciences.