Main description:

This book presents advanced knowledge and techniques to improve food quality, such as organic farming, fertilization using waste, reducing arsenic in food, soil restoration, forage production in arid regions and weed control. Agriculture is actually facing two major challenges, feeding an ever-growing population and providing safe food in the context of pollution, climate change and the future circular economy.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Organic cultivation of vegetables; Margit Olle
Chapter 2. Reducing arsenic accumulation in rice using advances in physiology genetics and breeding; Dibakar Das
Chapter 3. Speciation analysis of trace antimony in environmental and biological samples based on cloud point extraction and spectrometric methods; Ingrid Hagarova
Chapter 4. Groundwater status and challenges in Bangladesh; Md. Shajedul Islam
Chapter 5. Influence of organic amendments on soil properties, microflora and plant growth; Shweta Kulshreshtha
Chapter 6. Basics of waste management and disposal practices in the Indian context; Kalpna Varshney
Chapter 7. Impact of the invasive Prosopis juliflora on terrestrial ecosystems; M. Iftikhar Hussain
Chapter 8. Perennial forage grass production on the marginal Arabian Peninsula land; M. Iftikhar Hussain
Chapter 9. Agricultural sustainability and food security in agro-ecological zones of Tanzania; Msafiri Yusuph Mkonda
Chapter 10. Soil degradation, resilience, restoration and sustainable use; M. Iftikhar Hussain
Chapter 11. Integrated weed management for sustainable agriculture; M. Iftikhar Hussain
Chapter 12. Electrical impedance spectroscopy in plant biology: theory, modeling and data processing ; M. Iftikhar Hussain
Chapter 13. Non-symbiotic bacteria for soil nitrogen fortification; Renitta Jobby
Chapter 14. Nutritional and medical benefits of Moringa Oleifera, the miracle tree; Iqra Aslam and Ali Asghar