Contents: Preface. 1. Agro-physiological basis of variation in yield. 2. Recent advances in soil plant-water relationship. 3. Globalization of Agriculture and WTO. 4. Precision Farming. 5. Contract Farming. 6. Organic Farming. 7. Crop Residue Management. 8. Latest Developments in Plant Management. 9. Weed Management. 10. Cropping Systems. 11. Grassland Management. 12. Agroforestry. 13. Allelopathy. 14. Global Warming. 15. Genetically Modified Crops. 16. Seed Science Technology. 17. Holistic approach in Farming Systems. 18. Dryland Farming. 19. Sustainable Agriculture. 20. Research Methodology in Agronomy. 21. Conservation Agriculture. 22. New Technologies in Agriculture. 23. Important Formulas related to Agriculture. Suggested Reading.

In Indian agriculture, crop production system developed over the years had witnessed innovative changes, including introduction of manmade factors in combination with natural resources to affect changes in productivity to meet the demand of food. These manmade factors comprised manipulation in magnitude and type of tillage, time of sowing, selection of crop and varieties and lately in the form of high yielding varieties, nutrients, water, weed management and resource conservation technologies etc. The book will be helpful in fulfilling the objective of holistic knowledge of crops about current trends in crop production for increasing the income of farmers and sustainability to the production system. This book will be useful to the students, teachers and field officers alike pursuing the sacred mission of increasing food availability to the hungry millions.