A Handbook of Soil Science
Soil Science Division, NARC
Researcher, Students and academicians in Nepal have constantly felt necessity of reading materials in the field of Soil Science. Recognizing the shortage of text book, Soil Science Division, NARC decided to make a handbook of Soil Science to fulfill the needs of Soil Science researchers, students and soil related academicians to some extent. Different contributors from Soil Science Division have put their effort to bring their articles in the form of this book.
The purpose of this book is to supply or disseminate information's on the role of Soil Science in food production and its implications on the environment. We are aware that soil is the basis of all living things. We grow our crops in soils and the nutrients required by the plants are taken up from the soils. In recent years our soils have been depleted of the plant nutrients because of so many causes such as land degradation, unbalanced use of fertilizers, soil erosion, deforestation, increase in soil acidity, depletion of soil organic matter and so on. We need to protect our soils from depletion of plant nutrients by the generation of appropriate environmentally friendly technologies which help increase our crop productivity. Healthy soils produce healthy crops.
Nepalese agriculture is at watershed, less attention is given to the Soil Science. Many technologies have already been developed but only some of these have been reached to the farmers. We are running short of the productive land and are forced to produce more or increase crop productivity per unit area of land. This is only possible if we can enrich our soils and increase soil productivity.
This book covers some of the important sectors of Soil Science. Information's on GIS, Soil Fertility, Soil Microbiology, Soil Chemistry and Soil Environment are briefly described in this book. I believe that this book will be very much beneficial to the students, farmers, researchers and scientists of the country.
At last, I would like to thank and acknowledge to all the Authors for their great contributions in publishing this book.
Bishnu Hari Adhikary
Chief Soil Scientist
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Author(s)
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Soil Science Division, NARC
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Place of
Publication
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Nepal
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Publisher
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Nepal Agricultural Research Council
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Publication
year
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2015
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Editor(s)
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BH Adhikary
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Total
pages
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110
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Language
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English
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