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Contents Overview 1 Hill agriculture status and strategies in Indian HimalayasUC Sharma Vikas Sharma and Vishal Sharma Natural resources management 2 Rain water harvesting for sustainable Montane Agro-ecosystemsK Bassi and Rajesh Singh 3 Harvested water based farming system for production sustenance in drylandsHL Sharma and Raje…sh Singh 4 Degradation of catchments in lower Shiwaliks of Jammu and KashmirVikas Sharma Sanjay Arora and KR Sharma 5 Management of problematic soils of Northwest Himalayas for sustainable hill agricultureRD Gupta Anil Kumar and BC Sharma 6 Soil erosion and conservation in lower shiwaliks of PunjabSS Kukal and SS Bawa 7 Natural resource conservation technologies for sustainable crop productionSK Raina and Abha Chohan 8 Agroforestry for the hillsSandeep Sehgal and NS Raina 10 Agroforestry a potential land use in conservation of natural resources and sustainability of farming systemsSK Gupta and Sandeep Sehgal Agronomical Interventions 10 Potential of integrated nutrient supply and soil health improvement in sustainable cropping systems of Indian HimalayasVK Suri and Anil Kumar 11 Agro-technological advances for sustainable crop production in cold arid regionJag Paul Sharma and Anand K Singh 12 Integrated weed management in hill agricultureAnil Kumar BC Sharma AS Bali and Neetu Sharma 13 Integrated pest management in food security-an overviewRM Bhagat 14 Bio-intensive pest management in high altitude cropsRK Gupta 15 Pest management in hill agro-ecosystem for sustainable productionUma Shankar and Deepak Kumar 16 Seed hardening techniques for rainfed farmingS Manoharan M Mohamed Yassin and M Mohamed Amanullah Crop Improvement 17 Conventional and advanced breeding approaches for maize improvement under North West HimalayasG Katna and RK Salgotra 18 Promotion of Hybrid rice towards food security in Hilly regionsBB Gupta and RK Salgotra 19 Prospects of Upland rice improvement for sustainable hill agricultureRK Salgotra and Manmohan Sharma 20 Sustainable upland rice cultivation in hills a case study in Himachal PradeshBS Mankotia PK Sharma and J Shekhar 21 Agro-biodiversity conservation in North Western Himalayas and implications in crop improvementManmohan Sharma BB Gupta and RK Salgotra 22 Cold stress defense system towards physiological biochemical and molecular mechanismGyanendra Kumar Rai and Pradeep K Rai Horticulture 23 Cultivation of Saffron Crocus Sativus L a high value low volume crop in temperate region of Jammu with reference to Kishtwar an overviewCS Kalha and Vishal Gupta 24 Prospects of sustainable horticulture in Hill agricultureParshant Bakshi and Akash Sharma 25 Improved agronomy for hill orchardsRakesh Kumar and Akash Sharma 26 Vegetable cultivation in hills principles and practicesSatesh Kumar and Deep Ji Bhat 27 Vegetable seed production in hillsSanjeev Kumar and Puja Rattan Post harvest 28 Post harvest considerations for temperate cropsMonika Sood 29 Hill agriculture and its marketing problems and prospectsSudhakar Dwivedi and Tarunvir Singh Subject indexAgriculture is the predominant livelihood activity in hills In India this region is spearhead over an area of 538 million ha which is inhabited by 337 million people of who more than 90 live in rural setup Agriculture is much more important for hills economy as scope for industrializations limited due to topographical constraints and environmental concerns There are vast forests pastures grazing lands miscellaneous groves and trees much higher rainfall moderate temperate and intensive natural vegetation which add lot of organic matter every year to soils Naturally the fertility of soils in hills is comparatively high as compared to plain areas Hills also have a comparatively advantage of niche over plains for production of the off-season vegetables; hi value vegetable seeds sub temperate and temperate fruits like apple almond kiwi etc medicinal plants and other high value cash crops However sustaining productivity in the hills is a major.
