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Agriculture plays a key role in global food security, stability, medicine, and prosperity. A nation’s economy depends heavily on its agricultural sector, which is also the most susceptible to the effects of climate change. An addition to some bio-resources such as biodiesel, bio-hydrogen, bio-methane, and so on promotes the efficiency of agriculture and increases the water storage capacity of plants for cultivation. Long-term sustainability might necessitate a progressive shift away from synthetic inputs and toward legume-based crop rotation, including continuous cover cropping systems, where they may be feasible in some regions of the world depending on climatic circumstances. This chapter discusses sustainable agriculture toward food security, discusses perspectives and insights into the sustainability of food production and security through sustainable agriculture toward the future using traditional and recent advancements of technologies and strategies by sustainable production through plant and animal origin; productivity growth through pest management; and sustainable food security.
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Editors: Sukanta Mondal, ICAR-National Institute of Animal Nutrition and Physiology, India, Pankaj Singh, Dr Rammanohar Lohia Avadh University, Ayodhya, India, and Professor Ram Lakhan Singh, Nilamber-Pitamber University, Medininagar, Palamu, India
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