Agricultural Geography is the study of natural features of the earth's surface including climate, soil, vegetation, topography etc. and man's response to them.

The encyclopaedia work encompasses authentic information on all aspects of geography.

Soil, earthen resources, water, rainfall, winds, climate, atmospheric condition, agricultural regions and cropping patterns etc., are given elaborate scientific treatment.

The authoritative information with facts and figures contained herein will benefit students, researchers, teachers and scientists in the field.

The common flowering plant of Western India by Mozelle Issacs is a unique of its kind. This book is meant to help to identify the common plants, which are either out of print or too expensive, and therefore not easily accessible to those who are in need of it.

The members of vegetable kingdom are numerous and it is impossible to study them without classifying. There are two systems of classification
(1) The artificial system
(2) The natural system.

The keynote to classification lies in conception of species and genus. Classification determines naming of plants. The same plant has often been described under different names or different plants been designated by the same name, by different botanists, it is necessary, in order to avoid confusion, to add the name of the botanist who is the authority for it. This book is highly useful to the students of Botany particularly dealing in flowering plants of Western India.

Complex and intricate problems arising from land degradation in Himalaya have made environmentalists conscious of the immediate need of conservation and optimal use of the land resource. On account of the formidable problems issuing from the stagnant and deteriorating agricultural conditions, the ever increasing pressure of population on limited land resource, the poor condition of livestock wealth, the serious consequences of thoughtless deforestation, indiscriminate grazing and consequent soil leaching, erosion, landslides, rockfalls, floods and siltation, have made the need of landuse planning more than ever necessary.

A comprehensive survey of these problems should ultimately be conducted individually besides taking the country as a whole. Plan for improvements should therefore be based on carefully prepared local surveys. The present work is an attempt at filling a part of this need. A attempt is made here at presenting a vivid account such as Geology, Morphometry, Rainfall, Temperature, Natural vegetation, Soil Type, Soil Erosion, Landslides, population in general and agricultural landuse of Kotadun which is characterised by highly undulating topography to the north and represents the landuse characteristic of outer Himalaya in particular.

For further details three sample villages are selected at random from three well identified physical strata of dun floor or valleys, midslops and uplands. The conclusion about agricultural efficiency, land evaluation, nutrition, and deficiency diseases are based on the findings pertaining to the sample villages. It would be valuable contribution to the existing knowledge on Himalayan Environment.

The science of ecology, born at the beginning of the last century after a gestation period of several hundred years, has now not only matured into an honoured and respected scholarly discipline and field of research but has also become a household word as it relates to the general condition of the environment. This book is an effort to summarize the basic concept and principles of the subject, to present the elementary factual information with which a person to be competent in the field should be familiar, and to show how these principles and facts may be applied in a practical way to the interests and welfare of man. Although the book relates especially to animals, enough material is given concerning plants to bring out their essential place in the system of nature and to emphasize the bioecological point of view.

The book has several main themes-first, it is broad in coverage, second main theme is to present both sides of an argument. It is very easy to present an ecological principle with a "happy ending", that is, a nice tidy explanation with no loose ends, that appeals to the student and is intellectually satisfying.

The entire information is organised in 18 chapters. Profusely illustrated the book will serve as an ideal text book to the users.