Agrotechnology

Sustainable assessment of different agro-horticultural practices of western Indian Himalaya

4^th International Conference on Agriculture & Horticulture

July 13-15, 2015 Beijing, China

Gopal Shankar Singh

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: Agrotechnol

Abstract:

Like other parts of the Himalayan region, western Himalaya also harboured a variety of traditional agricultural practices since generations. Indigenous knowledge based such practices nurtured biodiversity in general and agro-biodiversity particular in Himalaya. Such traditional systems are being increasingly influenced by technological innovation and market based economy which needs to be discussed. The State of Himachal Pradesh represents north western Himalaya, is one such area where a change from traditional food crop agriculture to apple-based horticulture has been advancing from few decades. Introduction of horticulture in the area has altered not only land use and land cover practices but also imperils traditional crop races causing depletion of agrobiodiversity. Further, cultivation of high yielding variety of crops equally shared contribution. This study deals with the comparison of high yielding variety of crops with local varieties and apple introduction effect both on energy and economy level. Ecological and environmental factors were also evaluated in view to infrastructure development. Policies favouring organic to inorganic based land use systems were also evaluated. New dimension of this paper is we have evaluated various subsystem at socio-economic point of view which emphasised various levels of sustainable development. This paper deals with how various tire systems of land use management system which will be discussed in details.