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I. DROUGHT AND DESERTIFICATION : -
1. Ecological Fluxes in the Thar Desert/R.P. Dhir
2. Role of Space Technology in Assessment and Monitoring of Drought and Desertification/D.P. Rao, R.S. Dwivedi and A.T. Jayaseelan
3. Desertification in Arid Kachchh Region of Gujarat : Present Status and Responsible Factors/Amal Kar and Nepal Singh
4. Agro-Ecological Assessment of arid Regions of Gujarat for Crop Planning/B.L. Jain, R.S. Singh, J.D. Giri, J.P. Sharma and R.L. Shyampura
5. Impact of human Activities on land use Changes in arid Rajasthan: Retrospect and Prospects/Balak Ram
6. Malaria Conflagration Under the Impact of Changing Thar Desert Environment/B.K. Tyagi
7. Micro-Climatic Quantification and Drought Impacts on Productivity of Green-Gram Under Different Cropping Systems of Arid Zone/R.S. Singh, J.P. Gupta, A.S. Rao and A.K. Sharma
8. Estimation of Reference Evapotranspiration: a Case Study/R.K. Goyal and V.P. Gupta
9. Climatic Fluctuations and Trends at Banaskantha, Gujarat/K.I. Patel, S.B.S. Narasimha Rao, A.M. Shekh, M.B. Savani, Vyas Pandey, B.K. Bhatt, A.J. Dave and R.S. Parmar
10. Terrain Modeling to Understand Fluvial Erosion Hazards/P.C. Moharana
II. LAND AND Water Management : -
1. Status of Land Resources in Drought Prone Areas/M. Velayutham, R.L. Shyampura and R.K. Saxena
2. Four water Concept: a new Paradigm for Indira Gandhi Canal Area/J. Venkateswarlu
3. Rainwater Harvesting and Utilization/H.P. Singh and K.D. Sharma
4. Integrated Watershed Management for Sustainability/M.A. Khan and Pratap Narain
5. Effects of Soil and Water Conservation in Jhanwar Watershed/T.K. Bhati and R.K. Goyal
6. Integration of Mining Activities and Environment in Thar Desert/P.B. Rastogi
7. Technology Approach for Rehabilitating Degraded Arid Lands/S.S. Rathore and J.P. Gupta
8. Characterization of Limestone Mine Spoils for Rehabilitation in Thar Desert/B.K. Sharma, K.D. Sharma and Suresh Kumar
9. Effect of Tree Plantation on Soil Fertility in Arid Region of Rajasthan/Pramila Raina
10. Model Prediction of Physico-Chemical Changes in Brackish Water-Irrigated Sodic Soils During Amelioration/D.C. Joshi, Tibor Toth and Diana Sari
11. Performance of Vegetative Barriers on Sloping land in Semi-Arid Region/S.C. Sharma, J.S. Mann, R.S. Mehta and L.R. Meena
12. Studies on in Situ Rain Water Harvesting in Ber/K. Satyanarayana Reddy and P. Umamaheswari
13. Vegetation Status of a Salt-Affected Soil Five years After Plantation/Ranjana Arya
14. Comparative Efficiency of Olsen and Modified Kelowna Soil Tests for Available Phosphorus in Rajasthan Soils/V.K. Garg
15. Assessment of Industrial Effluents Induced Degradation of Natural Resources in Arid Environment/Balak Ram and I.C. Gupta
III. CROP PRODUCTION : -
1. Sustainable Crop Production in Arid Region : Strategies and Research Priorities/J.P. Gupta and Pratap Narain
2. Systems Analysis and Simulation in Agronomy/N.L. Joshi
3. Simulation of Pearl Millet Yield Under arid Environment/G.J. O’Leary, N.L. Joshi and E.J. van Oosterom
4. Response of Pearl Millet to N and FYM Under Rainfed condition/N.D. Yadava and B.K. Beniwal
5. Guar Breeding : What has been Done and what lies Ahead?/J.V. Singh and R.N. Arora
6. Clusterbean : An Industrial Crop for Arid Zone/A. Henry
7. Influence of Spacing on Performance, Water use and Nutrient uptake of Clusterbean/B.K. Garg, S. Kathju, S.P. Vyas and A.N. Lahiri
8. Effect of Single and Multiple Inoculation of Clusterbean on Growth, Nutrition and Tolerance to Infection by Macrophomina Phaseolina/P.P. Gupta, Vivek Gupta, Rakesh Kumar, J.V. Singh and D.S. Jatasara
9. Variability and Correlation Studies for Seedling Traits in cowpea/R.N. Arora and D.S. Jatasara
10. Studies on Seed Microflora of Cowpea/P.P. Gupta, Vivek Gupta, A.S. Rathi and D.S. Jatasara
11. Effect of Fertility Levels and Azotobacter Inoculation on Yield Attributes and Yield of Barley/N.K. Gaur, O.P. Sharma and T.K. Bhati
12. Importance of Udaipur Rock Phosphate as P Fertilizer/R.S. Yadav
13. Impact of Changing Cropping Patterns on the Insect pest Spectrum in the arid Agroecosystem/M.P. Singh, Satyavir and Nisha Patel
14. Incidence of Indian Field Mouse, Mus Booduga Gray in Thar Desert/Mohd. Idris, R.S. Tripathi, V. Chaudhary and B.D. Rana
15. Management of Die-Back in Chilli Through Seed and Spray Treatments/Arun Kumar and N.L. Vyas
16. Economic Assessment of Cropping Systems for Western arid Zone/Anurag Saxena, D.V. Singh and N.L. Joshi
IV. Biodiversity AND ALTERNATE LAND USE : -
1. Thar Desert Biosphere Reserve and Conservation of Phytodiversity of Thar/M.M. Bhandari
2. Agroforestry for Sustainability in arid Regions/R.M. Singhal and G. Singh
3. Potential of Certain Multipurpose Tree Species Under Rainfed Condition in North Gujarat/S.N. Jaimini, S.B.S. Tikka, J.M. Patel, N.M. Patel, P.M. Patel and S.B. Patel
4. Influence of Intercropping and Tree Density on Forage Production in Ardu-Based Silvopasture System/l.r. Meena, s.c. Sharma, j.s. mann and r.s. Mehta
5. Effect of tree Species on Inter Space Grass yield under Silvopastoral System/A.K. Kothari and P.M. Jain
6. Quick Raising of Salvadora Oleoides (Decne) Saplings/R.S. Mertia and T.K. Kunhamu
7. Propagation Techniques to Conserve Endemic and Threatened Plants in arid Region/M. Nagarajan and R.S. Mertia
8. In Vitro Multiplication of Important Desert Trees/R. Raj Bhansali
9. Improved Biomass Production and Nutrient Uptake in Acacia Leucophloea by Inoculation with AM Fungi/Jitendra Panwar and Anil Vyas
10. Effects of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal (AM) Fungi on the growth of Desert tree Saplings/Sher Mohammed and Pawan K. Kasera
11. Arresting the Degradation of Productivity of Marginal lands Through Silvopasture System in Dry Areas/R.S. Mehta, J.S. Mann, S.C. SHARMA and L.R. Meena
12. Suitable Land use Model for Maximization of Production on Sandy Loam Soils/J.S. Mann, S.C. Sharma and R.S. Mehta
13. Studies on Some Multipurpose Tree Species as a Source of Rural Energy/D.I. Gohil and S.P. Singh
14. Increased Production of Gum-Arabic from Acacia Senegal/Hamid A. Khan, L.N. Harsh and M.D. Bohra
15. Prospects of Saffron Cultivation in Cold arid Zone of Kargil (Ladakh)/A.M. Munshi, Gul Zaffar and G.H. Zargar
16. Microbial and Soil C, N and P in Prosopis Cineraria and Acacia Nilotica- Based Agroforestry Systems/S.K. Mehar, Usha Purohit, M. Nagarajan and S. Sundaramoorthy
17. Arid Horticulture/B.S. Chundawat
18. Genetic Diversity in Pomegranate Germplasm in arid Regions/B.B. Vashishtha, D.K. Samadia and P. Nallathambi
19. Advances in Jujube Cultivation in arid Zone/P.R. Meghwal and S.K. Purbey
20. Studies on the Maturity Standards of Date Palm (Phoenix Dactytlifera L.)/G. Lal, M.S. Fageria, R.S. Dhaka, N.L. Sen and J.P.S. Pundeer
21. Diversity in Kachari and Matira in arid Region of Rajasthan/N.K. Dwivedi, D.C. Bhandari, Neelam Bhatnagar and D.K. Samadia
22. Propagation and Production Techniques for five Important Medicinal Plants of the Thar Desert/Pawan K. Kasera, Jitendra K. Shukla, Jai Prakash, Priya Saharan and D.D. Chawan
V. LIVESTOCK AND RANGE MANAGEMENT : -
1. Breeding and Selection for Disease Resistance in Farm Animals/S.C. Mehta and V.K. Singh
2. Livestock: Human need for Sustainability in arid Environment/B.K. Mathur
3. Marwari sheep: its Improvement in hot arid Rajasthan/Gopal Dass and V.K. Singh
4. Effect of grass Legume Intercropping on soil properties in the arid zone of Rajasthan/K.P. Tripathi and K.C. Singh
5. Relative Performance of Prominent Grasses under Varying Rainfall Situations in arid Gujarat/S.P. Vyas
6. Degradation of soil Resources of Rajasthan due to biotic Stress/Vimlesh Chaudhary, B.L. Kakralya and Karan Singh
VI. ENERGY MANAGEMENT : -
1. Energy Management in arid zone/Anwar Alam
2. Design and Development of Solar Devices for arid Region/P.C. Pande
3. Energetics of Crop Production in arid region/Harpal Singh, D. Mishra and N.M. Nahar
4. Tillage for Moisture and Energy Conservation in Clusterbean-Pearl Millet Rotation in Arid Zone/M. Patidar and A.K. Singh
VII. PEOPLES’ PARTICIPATION AND IMPACT ASSESSMENT : -
1. Impact Assessment of farm Technologies for Desert Development/Mruthyunjaya
2. Socio-Cultural Practices and Peoples’ Perception in Desertification Processes in an Indian arid Village/D.K. Saha, A. Tsunekawa, K. Anantha Ram and T. Miyazaki
3. Resource use Efficiency in vegetable Production in arid Region of Rajasthan/Pratibha Tewari, Z.D. Kavia, B.L. Gajja and T.K. Bhati
4. Achievement Motivation of Farmers and Extension Personnel/Amtul-Waris, M.P. Singh and K.N.K. Chauhan
5. Participation of Farmers in tree Plantation in Western Rajasthan/Rajendra Prasad, R.K. Gupta and R.R. Lohra
Author Index