Objective Soil Science - Hardcover

Reddy, Raghavendra M; P N, Prasad Siva; A, Sathish

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9388305949 ISBN 13: 9789388305945

Publisher: BS Publications, 2020

Synopsis

Soil science and Agricultural chemistry is one of the major subjects in Agricultural Sciences. It became a deciding subject to become candidature for most of the aspirants for competitive exams in Agriculture. This book contains major divisions of the subject having various formats of objective questions which are frequently found in different examinations. This book will be a great asset to aspirants for Junior Research Fellow (JRF), Senior Research Fellow (SRF), NET conducting by Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR ) and other competitive exams. Authors are highly acknowledged to the fundamental reference books of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry.

 

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About the Authors

M. Raghavendra Reddy graduated from Faculty of Agriculture, Annamalai University. He obtained his M.Sc. (Ag.) from Tamilnadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore and Ph.D. (ICAR-SRF) from GKVK, University of Agricultural Science, Bangalore in Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry. He cleared NET-2014 conducted by Agricultural Research Board, New Delhi. He has an experience of two years in research and teaching in SAU and ICAR institutes. He has to his credit about 10 scientific papers published in National and International journals. He achieved University gold medal and STCR gold medal from UAS (B) for his merit in Ph.D. He was also recipient of various prizes and awards during his graduation and post-graduation.

P. N. Siva Prasad obtained his B.Sc. (Ag.) from S. V. Agricultural College, Tirupathi, ANGRAU, M.Sc.(Ag.) from Agricultural College, Mahanandhi, ANGRAU and Ph.D from University of Agricultural Sciences, GKVK, Bangalore. He is recipient of two gold medals for his post graduate studies in the decipline of Agriculture and in the decipline of Soil Science and cleared NET conducted by ASRB in 2015. He was awarded with DST-INSPIRE fellowship for pursuing his doctoral studies by GOI. He received best oral presentation of doctoral degree research award for his Ph.D studies under the theme of Crop Production during PG Science week-2018 at UAS (B). He has published 10 research papers in reputed scientific journals and 15 multi disciplinary popular articles. He attended various conferences and seminars both at National and International level.

A. Sathish working as Associate Professor in the department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, GKVK, University of Agricultural Science, Bangalore. He has an experience of 14 years in research, teaching and extension activities in soil science. He is specialized in Remote Sensing and GIS. He awarded with Vasantha Rao Naik award for his outstanding research in dry land agriculture. He guided 7 M.Sc. students and 2 Ph.D. scholars. He visited several countries to attend conferences, meetings and seminars. He published more than 45 peer reviewed research papers. Currently he is Principal and Co-Principal Investigator for several projects. He is actively involved in projects collaborated with University of Kassel, Germany and University of Basel, Switzerland.

Edition details

• Publisher: BS Publications
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9388305949
• ISBN 13: 9789388305945
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 294