P K Shukla – författare

In the face of rising climate variability, population growth, and shifting agro-ecological challenges, ensuring sustainable and profitable horticultural production is a national priority. This book, Agro-Advisory Services in Horticulture, provides a comprehensive and science-based exploration of how real-time, location-specific advisories can support fruit and spice crop growers across India diverse agro-climatic zones.The book compiles contributions from leading scientists, extension specialists, and agronomists who have worked extensively in the field of horticulture. It emphasizes the importance of agro-advisory systems as a bridge between research and field-level application, particularly for small and marginal farmers facing the impacts of climate extremes.Topics include canopy management, insect and disease control, nutrient scheduling, harvesting and post-harvest protocols, and ICT-based mobile advisory systems. Specific focus is placed on subtropical fruit crops like mango, guava, and citrus, as well as spice crops such as cardamom, turmeric, and black pepper. Region-specific case studies, including those from Maharashtra, Kerala, and saline-sodic zones, offer actionable insights into field-level impacts and adaptive management practices.The book also highlights the critical role of women in horticultural sustainability, the significance of farmer engagement through micro-level advisories, and the necessity of resource conservation practices for long-term productivity.This publication is an invaluable resource for:Extension professionals involved in agri-communicationResearchers and academicians in horticulture and climate-resilient agricultureStudents of agricultural sciencesPolicy planners and development agencies aiming to strengthen farmer support systemsBy combining scientific knowledge with field-tested advisory models, the book aims to empower India horticulture sector to thrive amidst both environmental and market challenges.

During the last decades frontieres in various branches of physics have been investigated, especially for describing coherent effects, with very similar methodologies. In particular, the quantum-like formalism has recently received a great deal of attention for describing a number of "classical topics", such as charged particle beam optics and dynamics in accelerating machines, plasma physics, nonlinear optics, transmission lines, solid state physics. On the other hand, proper quantum models that have been applied to coherent correlated states, squeezed states, macroscopic quantum coherence in superconductivity, superradiance in condensed matter, stochastic mechanics, have also been recently developed in way fully similar to the one used for quantum-like models. The quantum-like approach seems, therefore, to form a common basis for understanding the observations in many diverse field of science.This volume collects very significant examples of these common methodologies that have been given by various quantum-like approaches for describing numerious physical scenarios in the above branches of physics.