"Food and Nutrition is one of the basic needs of human existence, to feed the growing millions. For this purpose it necessary to adopt modern farm technologies and management practices in agriculture.

The book on "Agriculture and Nutrition in Rural Andhra Pradesh" deals with food cropping pattern and systems, agricultural yield and production of food crops, carrying capacity of land and man land ratio, nutrient supply and nutrient availability, food consumption and nutritional standards.

This book provides a good feed back to policy makers, planners, development executives and researchers. It also throws open many issues for further research in the context of sustainable agriculture.

The book represents very systematic attempts to present a comprehensive text for courses on rural geography, medical geography, and agriculture geography etc. in the Indian context.

The content and the text have shown and exercised as to meet the requirements of students and scholars in taking up related courses at post-graduate level in colleges/ universities as well as in research institutions of rural planning and development all over the country."
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Contents

Foreword

1. A Perspective on the Research Theme

2. Geographical Environment of the Study Region

3. Changing Spatial Concentration of Food Cropping Systems

4. Carrying Capacity of Land and Man-Land Ratio

5. Environment, Demographic Structure, Agriculture, Nutrient Supply and Nutrient Availability of Sample Villages

6. Food Consumption and Nutritional Standards of Agricultural Holdings at Microscale

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