Emerging Technologies and Management of Crop Stress Tolerance

Preface

Parvaiz Ahmad and Saiema Rasool

Before the onset of agriculture, Man was a forager. Man used wild animals and plants to aid survival. This was the only issue to satisfy his hunger. Some 10,000 years ago, Man started to live in groups around the world, beginning to gather and cultivate cereals, along with domesticated animals for meat, milk, skin, etc. From that period, agriculture became the most important part of life. The changes from a nomadic to very settled way of life form started due to early agricultural practices. Now you can see how much development has taken place in agriculture. We have every possible type of machinery, a multitude of technologies, and the latest methods to produce more and more food.

But no matter how developed ...