Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture

Chapter1. Drone Technology in Sustainable Agriculture: The future of farming is precision agriculture and mapping.- Chapter2. Revolutionizing Crops and Soil Resources' Resilience to Climate Change. A case for Best-fit Agronomic Practices in Low and High Input Systems.- Chapter3. Drought-resilient climate smart sorghum varieties for food and industrial use in marginal frontier areas of Kenya.- Chapter4. Optimizing nitrogen management for improved productivity, nitrogen use efficiency, food and nutrition security: African context perspectives.- Chapter5. Soil carbon pools under different farming practices.- Chapter6. Effect of conservation agriculture on energy consumption and carbon emission.- Chapter7. Plant Molecular Farming: A Marvelous Biotechnological Approach in Agricultural Production.- Chapter8. Examining the outcome of coupling machine learning with dual Polarimetric SAR for rice growth mapping.- Chapter9. Mapping prominent cash crops employing ALOS PALSAR-2 and selected machine learners.- Chapter10. Crop assessment and decision support information products using multi-sensor and multi-temporal moderate resolution data.- Chapter11. Agriculture, Livestock Production and Aquaculture: Advances for Smallholder Farming System.- Chapter12. Mobilizing Pig Resources for Capacity Development and Livelihood Security.- Chapter13. Agricultural Value Chains: A Cardinal Pillar for Future Development and Management of Farming.- Chapter14. Climate Smart Eco-management of Water and Soil Quality as a Tool for Fish Productivity Enhancement.- Chapter15. Advances in nutrient resource management for fisheries and aquaculture.- Chapter16. Conclusion.

Prof. Arvind Kumar, a renowned educationist and researcher having more than four decades of experience has been given the responsibility since May, 2014 by the President of India as first Vice Chancellor of Rani Lakshmi Bai Central Agricultural University, Jhansi to develop the campus and academic programme as an Institution of National Importance. Prior to this assignment Prof. Kumar worked as Deputy Director General (Education), ICAR, New Delhi from 2009-2014, held the additional charge of Deputy Director General (Fisheries), ICAR, New Delhi about 5 months and was the Director of Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research (DRMR), Bharatpur from 2002 to 2009. He is Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (2012) and Fellow of International society of Noni Science (2018). He has been president of Indian Society of Oil Seeds (ISOS), Indian Society of Agronomy (ISA) and Society for Rapeseed Mustard Research (SRMR). Dr. Kumar received the Life time Achievement Award for his significant contributions in Agronomy & Rapeseed Mustard by Indian Society of Agronomy and Society for Rapeseed-Mustard Research. He has been the member of the Board of Management of several national reputed institutions like IARI, GBPUA&T, CAU, Imphal, SKUAS&T, Jammu, NDRI, Karnal. During his professional career at GBPUA&T, Pantnagar for about 27 years, was involved in teaching, research and extension education and also assigned various responsibilities including Joint Director Extension. For his outstanding contributions to the field of Rapeseed-Mustard research, he was given "Membership" by the International Consultative Group for Research on Rapeseed, Paris (France), from India. Dr. Kumar has been recognized for his professional achievements by several awards and fellowships. He has published more than 160 research papers in Indian and foreign journals, 90 popular articles, 60 books/ booklets/ chapters and presented more than 200 papers in National and