Contents Foreword Preface I Concept and definition 1 History evolution and scope of farming systems research and development in IndiaIC Mahapatra and UK Behera 2 Overview of farming system research in IndiaUK Behera 3 Integrated farming systems-the only pathway for small and marginal farmers of IndiaIC Mahapatra and UK Behera 4 Integrated farming systems-to improve input use efficiency employment and income in Eastern IndiaBC Biswas II Farming systems procedures and methodologies 5 Impact of water saving technologies demonstrated on farmers fields on cane yield water use efficiency and economy of cane growersDV Yadav RP Verma Rajendra Gupta and Kamta Prasad 6 Participatory rural appraisal for identification and prioritization of researchable problemsUK Behera and P Panigrahi 7Modeling processes and operations with linear programming for optimization of resource useUK Behera and PK Sahoo III Multi criteria decision making and optimization 8 Multiple criteria decision making and optimization techniques for designing integrated farming systemsUK Behera 9 Optimization methodology for farm resource planningDipankar De 10 Optimizing farming system for sustainable management and use of land and water resource in western zone of Tamil NaduKR Karunakaran and M Chandrasekaran 11 Multi-criteria decision analysis concept and applicationRN Sahoo IV Decision support in agriculture 12 Development of decision support systems and its use in agricultureA Sarangi 13 Use of simulation model for improved nutrient managementH Pathak 14 A decision support system based approach for recommending long term sustainable conjunctive water use and crop rotationRavinder Kaur V Integrated farming systems 1 Rice fish farming systems in AsiaDP Sinhababu 16 Fish based integrated farming systemRK Langer 17 Farming systems and resource conservation technologies for sustainable hill agriculturePK Ghosh and Anup Das 18 Advances in agroforestry research and development in IndiaSK Dhyani 19 Bio-energy management for sustainable farming systemPK Sahoo and UK Behera 20 Mushrooms as a component of sustainable farming systemManjit Singh 21 Biodynamic farming for sustainable agricultureBS Rath and B Mishra 22 Rice fish culture in North East India a case study of lower Brahmaputra ValleySK Rautaray and UK Behera 23 Multiple uses of water for higher productivity through diversified farming systemsUK Behera AR Sharma and P Panigrahi VI Cropping systems and component technologies for efficient resource use in farming systems 24 Assessment of efficiencies in crops and cropping systemB Gangwar 25 Crop diversification for efficient resource management and sustainable farming systemsUK Behera Billu Singh and AR Sharma 26 Tropical tuber crops based farming systems an overviewM Nedunchezhiyan SK Jata and RC Ray 27 Management strategies for improving water productivity in high rainfall area of Eastern IndiaRavender Singh 28 Micro-irrigation and fertigation for higher water and fertilizer use efficiency in crop productionP Panigrahi and UK Behera 29 Improving input use efficiency and profits in rice cultivation through system of rice intensificationDinesh Kumar 30 Weed dynamics of innovations in weed management researchTK Das and NT Yaduraju 31 Integrated weed management for sustainable crop productionTK Das and UK Behera VII Conservation farming systems 32 Conservation farming systems for rainfed areasSuraj Bhan 33 Resource conserving techniques for sustainable farming systemsAR Sharma and UK Behera 34 Conservation agriculture for sustainable agriculture and mitigating climate changeUK Behera and AR Sharma 35 Tillage and mulching for conservation and production in northwest hilly mountain agro-ecosystemsKS Dadhwal and VN Sharda VIII Entrepreneurship and post harvest and value addition in farming systems 36 Harvesting cleaning sorting and grading techniques for fruits and vegetablesDVK Samuel 37 Water as enterprise attempting and PPP model for poverty alleviation at grass root leve.