INTEGRATED NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT FOR FOOD SECURITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY.

The challenge that the world is facing has been to maximize food production to feed the increasing population. Further, agriculture at present encompasses many problems such as stagnating food-grain production, multi- nutrient deficiency, declining fertilizer response, reduction in land availability for cultivation, environmental pollution and land degradation. To manage long term soil fertility, productivity as well as environment quality, integration of organic and inorganic fertilizer can be the most sustainable practices to adopt. Several nutrient managements have been practiced; however, current studies on long term experiments indicated that integrated nutrient management proved to be the best approach for sustainable crop production as well as reducing environmental pollution. This paper explains the importance and strategies of integrated nutrient management.