Abstract
Soil is a vital natural resource. To ensure optimum agricultural production, it is imperative to know the basic facts of the soils, their potential and limitations and management strategies needed to overcome the limitations. To improve the productive capacity of soils and further degradation of soil resources, there is a need to develop soil-based technologies and their assessment through participatory approach for quick and wider adoption. Identification of biophysical, socio-economic setup and need of the stakeholders will help to design sustainable, acceptable and economically viable land use plans. In this chapter, impact of soil-based agrotechnology transfer in two agroecological subregions of India has been reported. These plans are based on participatory and integrated farming system approach, where soil-specific agrotechnologies improved the productivity of soils and also the livelihood of farming community.
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Ramamurthy, V. (2018). Soil-Based Land Use Planning: Impacts on Livelihood Security. In: Reddy, G., Singh, S. (eds) Geospatial Technologies in Land Resources Mapping, Monitoring and Management. Geotechnologies and the Environment, vol 21. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78711-4_26
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