Farm management is a process of making and implementing the decisions involved in organizing and operating a farm for maximum production and profit. Farm management draws on agricultural economics for information on prices, markets, agricultural policy, and economic institutions such as leasing and credit. It also draws on plant and animal sciences for information on soils, seed, and fertilizer, on control of weeds, insects, and disease, and on rations and breeding; on agricultural engineering for information on farm buildings, machinery, irrigation, crop drying, drainage, and erosion control systems; and on psychology and sociology for information on human behaviour. This book is a landmark text in the field of agricultural management studies. With its quality of admirable presentation, this book will be of immense interest to the students and scholars of agricultural economics, state and central marketing personnel and other interested in the area of agriculture, problems of rural development and farmer’s welfare.
