About the Book: Dynamics of Conservation Agriculture: Energy, Climate and
Knowledge
The worst of the existential crisis for civilization seems looming very close
since we are confronting with water crisis, soil degradation and biodiversity
erosion. Around 20 tons top soils are being eroded per hectare per year due to
coercive effect of mechanization ; the availability of per capita water has been
slashed down from 5000 cubic meter to 1300 cubic meter between 1950 to 2025.
While agriculture as a whole is pumping out ground water to the level of 70 per
cent of total ground water reserve, four crops mainly rice, wheat, sugarcane,
cotton are responsible