Innovative Saline Agriculture

1. Introduction (JC Dagar and PC Sharma).- 2. Climate Change Vis-À-Vis Saline Agriculture: Impact and AdaptationStrategies (JC Dagar, PC Sharma, SK Chaudhari, HS Jat and Sharif Ahamad).- 3. Diagnosis and Prognosis of Salt-affected Soils and Poor-quality Waters using Remote Sensing and Proximal Techniques (MadhuramaSethi , DS Bundela and Rajkumar).- 4. Influence of Nano-particles on Soil Biological Processes for Enhancing CropProductivity (AK Patra, AK Bhardwaj andTapanAdhikari).- 5. Rhizosphere Engineering- an Innovative Approach for Sustainable Crop Productionin Sodic Soils (T Damodaranand VK Mishra).- 6. Physico- hydraulic Properties and Solute Movement in Black Alkali Soils (AK Singh and SK Verma).- 7. Removing Bottlenecks in Fertilizing Salt-affected Soils for Agricultural Production (AK Bhardwaj, S Srivastava, JC Dagar, RK Yadav and DK Sharma).- 8. Agroforestry for Ecological Restoration of Salt-affected Lands (SR Gupta and JC Dagar).- 9. Integrated Drainage Solutions for Waterlogged Saline Lands (SK Gupta).- 10. Sodic Irrigation Management for Sustaining Crop Productivity (OP Choudhary).- 11. Innovations in Utilization of Poor-quality Waters for Sustainable Agricultural Production (RK Yadav and JC Dagar).- 12. Low Cost Remediation and On-farm Management Approaches for Safe Use of   Wastewater jn Agriculture (Khajanchi  Lal, Ravinder Kaur and Neelam Patel).- 13. Use of saline/ industrial effluents in diverse crop interventions in Vertisols (G Gururaja Rao, Sanjay Arora and Anil R Chinchmalatpure).- 14 Investigating Abiotic Stress Response Machinery in Plants: The Metabolomics Approach (Khalid Anwar, Nita Lakra, Sneh L Singla-Pareek, AshwaniPareek).- 15. Physiological and Molecular Insights into Salt Tolerance Mechanisms in Plants (PC Sharma, Rama Parshat G, Ashwani Kumar and Anita Mann).- 16. Fluoride and Arsenic in Groundwater: Occurrence and Geo-chemical Processes Controlling Mobilisation (SK Jha and VK Mishra).- 17. Homestead Production

Dr Jagdish Chander Dagar has been well recognized both nationally and internationally and grown professionally through strong pursuit in ecological and agroforestry research which is evident from his 140 research papers published in peer-reviewed Journals, 120 book chapters and papers in proceedings of conferences/symposia, 12 books authored/edited, 10 research bulletins and more than 50 popular articles. He was the Assistant Director General at the head-quarters of ICAR and Emeritus Scientist. His research interest has been in the areas of biosaline agriculture, agroforestry, management of natural resources, rehabilitation of degraded lands, biodrainage, ethnobotany, plant ecology, climate change, sustainable agriculture and policy. Recognizing the research contributions, Dr Dagar has been conferred with several awards and honours: Sajjad Memorial Gold Medal (1973-74), Hari Om Asharam Trust Award of ICAR (2005), Swami Pranavananda Saraswati National Award (2005), CSSRI Excellence Award on Soil Salinity & Water Management (2007-09), Bharat Excellence Award & Gold Medal (2009), Dr KG Tejwani Award for Excellence in Agroforestry Research & Development (2010-11). Further, he is Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, 2007 and Fellow & Life Member of several other professional societies: International Society of Tropical Ecology, 1982; Indian Botanical Society, 1993: National Institute of Ecology, 1996; Range Management Society of India, 2007; National Environmental Science Academy, 2014; Andaman Science Association, 2015. He has also been consulting several national and international agencies such as FAO of UN, CIMMYT, and Haryana Forest Department. Dr Dagar has travelled in several countries in different capacities and had been member of several Research Advisory Committees and Management Committees of several ICAR Institutes and Board of Studies in Universities.

Dr ParbodhChander Sharma did his M.Sc. (1982) and