Text Book on Agricultural Heritage

Abstract

Agriculture is the backbone of our society, way of life and not an occupation.
History is dened as the continuous record of past events, whereas heritage
denotes the values and traditional practices adopted in ancient India, and
agriculture heritage relates to the values and the traditional agricultural
practices adapted in ancient time and world, which are more relevant for
present day system. Likewise, one should be proud of our agriculture as it has
lot of inherited sustainable practices passed from one generation to other
generation. The objectives of the book are to increase awareness and implant a
sense of pride amongst the people of the rich unique heritage of Indian
agriculture, to know as our agriculture has sustainable practices for
generations and to stimulate scientic research based on traditional
technology.
This book is intended as a text book for under-graduate students in agriculture.
Hopefully, the information contained herein will be a valuable reference to
professional faculty members, agricultural scientists and students.
Citations are avoided in the text so that the reader is not distracted. At the end of
the book, a list of references has been given from which most of the material in
the book is drawn. Theses references will also help students for further
readings.
The authors acknowledge with greater indebtedness the authors of various
books, bulletins, monographs, periodicals and published papers from which
most of the information for this book have been collected.