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Dr. Suresh Kumar Chaudhari Indian Council of Agricultural Research New Delhi, India Deputy Director General (Natural Resource Management) Source: Indian Council of Agricultural Research 08.06.2021

Agriculture is not only a key driver for inclusive growth of the economy in Asian countries but also has become means to elevate poverty, employment generation, and food security to the millions of growers, consumers, and other stakeholders in the continent. In addition, the forward and backward linkage effects of agriculture growth have also scaled up the incomes in the nonagriculture enterprises. Within the agricultural sector, smallholder farmers remain central to agricultural development and continue to play important roles for promoting an ecologically rational and socially available food system.

The primary aim of this book on “Sustainable Agriculture Systems and Technologies” is to advance the scientific understanding and application of technologies addressing a variety of areas related to food security within the context of sustainable productivity, system diversification, irrigation practices, precision agriculture, climate change, crop modeling, big data analytics, farmer's livelihood, and agricultural policy framework in the twenty‐first century. This book will serve as a hand book encompassing several scopes of interests on sustainable agricultural technologies toward improved livelihoods, income generation and addressing sustainable development goals through agriculture, livestock, and fishery resources. A variety of scholars will also be benefited to explore risks and potential solutions in different agricultural systems under changing climate scenario, which can further be transmitted to the producers, policy makers, and other stakeholders. Further, this book will extend knowledge support for academics, researchers, and environmental consultant working within the framework of agricultural sciences.

I compliment the contributors and the editors for this worthy publication.

S.K. Chaudhari