Social Necessity of an Efficient Management and Conservation of Bio-resource and Stress Management

Abstract

The growth and economy of a society is highly dependent on profitable utilization of bio-resource, plants and animals for livelihood and survival. This chapter discusses the efficient utilization of native plants, trees and other bio-resources as well as various abiotic stress factors affecting crop productivity under sustainable agriculture. Various innovative techniques, agrotechnology and organic fertilizers need to evolve for increasing productivity under sustainable agriculture. The reserve of organic carbon fixed in the soil by soil microorganisms is the long-term carbon that is released into the environment by increased burning of fossil fuels. It helps to limit the global changes that are continuously increasing due to rapid changes in the amounts of greenhouse gases. Certain tree species have the capacity to capture about 50 % of carbon, viz. Leucophyllum frutescens, Forestiera angustifolia, Bumelia celastrina and Acacia berlandieri which may be recommended for planting in highly contaminated areas to reduce pollution and carbon dioxide load in the atmosphere. This chapter urges the necessity for judicious utilization and conservation of native species and also the ethnic knowledge on plant uses inherited from generation to generation.