Description

Growing suitable salt-tolerant crops, managing seedbeds, and grading fields to reduce local salt accumulation are the main components of crop management practises for the safe use of salt-affected soils and saline water. Other practises include soil management, improving irrigation efficiency, and soil, water, and salinity monitoring for determining leaking and drainage requirements. An entire farm management approach called "integrated farming" strives to provide more sustainably produced food. It is a flexible strategy that may be used with any farming system in the world. You must also choose how to best integrate cover crops into your systemówhether they should be planted after the main crop, intercropped throughout some or all of the main crop's growth, or grown for the full growing season to improve the soil. The ideal situation would be to always have something growing in your fields, even if it is dormant during the winter. The book satisfies the need for a current, comprehensive text on crop management and integrated farming in a range of contexts and thoroughly covers the material covered in the Field Crops and Farming Systems in Agronomy courses offered to students at the undergrad and grad levels of agricultural universities across the nation.