Integrated Land and Water Resource Management for Sustainable Agriculture Volume 2

This book covers up-to-date research on various emerging technologies in agriculture and agricultural engineering with discussing the advancement and gap between different techniques. In this sense, this book features the application of the newly developed technologies for effective farm management and precise agriculture to improve the crop yield with maintaining the soil conditions. This book includes the application of allied engineering branches to agriculture including robotics, drone technology, remote sensing & GIS, computational modeling, ICT tools, sensing techniques, agricultural mechatronics, nano-biotechnology and applied mechanics, etc. Any upcoming early stage researchers and scientist working in this research domain get idea and knowledge about various aspects and dimensions of water resource engineering advancement and give directions to solve real field challenges for sustaining in future water demand.

Dr. Dipak Ashok Jadhav did PhD from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur on Scaling up of microbial fuel cell and development of scaling up microbial fuel cell for sanitation applications. Earlier, he was associated as a Research Professor at Department of Environmental Engineering at Korea Maritime and Ocean University (KMOU) Busan, South Korea. He also worked as Assistant Professor, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, India. During his Master thesis research, he received DAAD fellowship in 2011-2012 to work in Technical University Braunschweig Germany. He has received several prestigious awards and fellowship including Young Technological Innovation Award (GYTI) at Rashtrapati Bhavan, IEI-Young Engineers Award, IEI-Promising Engineers Award, NRF-BP fellowship, Swachhta Sarthi Fellow, DAAD fellowship, IGCS fellowship, Silver medal for post graduate studies at IIT Kharagpur, etc. His research area is microbial fuel/electrolysis cell, Bioelectrochemical system, Sanitation, Bioenergy research, Waste to Energy recovery. Field demonstration of Bioelectric toilet concept developed by him was appreciated by Ministry, Govt of India with Swachthon 1.0 Award in 2018. Recently, he also featured in the Top 2% scientist in the world as per data compiled by Stanford University, USA and Elsevier. He has presented research work at national and international conferences in the area of bioelectrochemical system and bioenergy. He delivered keynote lectures in IITs, NITs, foreign universities based on waste-to-resource recovery. He is also serving as associate editor, editorial board member /reviewers for many International Journals and member for several scientific societies in the field of microbial fuel cell, microbial electrochemical system and bioenergy research.

Dr. S. B Khaple is working as an Associate Professor in Civil Engineering Department at the JSPM Narhe Technical Campus, Narhe-41, Pune-Maharashtra (India). He obtained his Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil Engineering from PDA College of Engineering, Kalaburagi-Karnataka. Further, he gained Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, West Bengal- India. He worked as an Assistant Professor in Department of Civil Engineering, Central University of Karnataka, Kadaganchi, Kalaburagi (Karnataka) and has extensive teaching experience in the area of Fluid Mechanics, Hydraulics and Water Resources Engineering.

He is a member of the institution of Engineers (India); Member of Indian Society for Hydraulics, Member of Indian Society of Technical Education and Member of Indian Concrete Institute and many more. He awarded the Senior Research Fellow (SRF) from Research Designs & Standards Organisation (RDSO), Lucknow, Govt. of India and He is having experience in research related to Turbulence: Velocity Distribution, Turbulence Intensity, Secondary Currents and Dip Phenomenon, Fluvial Hydraulics: Sediment transport, Local Scour around hydraulic structures. Open Channel Hydraulics: Experimental Fluid Mechanics, Numerical flow modeling, free overfall, Hydraulic Engineering and Water Resources Engineering. He is working as R&D coordinator at institute level. He is also serving as Editorial Board Member/Reviewers for National and International Journals.

Currently, Dr. S. B Khaple is actively working as Head of the Department, Civil Engineering, JSPM-Nathe Technical Campus, Narhe Pune-41, Maharashtra (India).

Pawan S. Wable (PhD, IIT Kharagpur) is a researcher specializing in hydrology and watershed management. His research is particularly focused on drought indices, water balance studies, and innovative conservation practices tailored for semi-arid and forested ecosystems.

He earned his B.Tech in Agricultural Engineering from Mahatma Phule Krishi Vidyapeeth (MPKV), Rahuri, followed by M.Tech and PhD in Land and Water Resources Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. His doctoral research focused on Drought Assessment and Management in the Sina River Basin of Maharashtra, where he developed methodologies for evaluating drought severity, forecasting droughts and implementing adaptive management strategies to enhance resilience in water-stressed regions.

Dr. Wable has amassed over five years of experience in watershed management at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), where he played a key role in developing field-based solutions for effective water conservation, groundwater recharge, and sustainable land-use practices. His work integrated scientific research with real-world applications, benefiting rural and agricultural communities’ dependent on limited water resources.

In the past two and a half years, he has expanded his research focus to forest hydrology, a field that explores the intricate relationship between forests and water dynamics. His current work emphasizes evapotranspiration estimation, hydrological modeling in forested watersheds, and the impact of eco-restoration efforts on water balance. By integrating advanced monitoring techniques, including IoT-based hydrological instrumentation, he aims to bridge knowledge gaps in forest-water interactions, particularly in the Western Ghats of India.

Currently, he serves as Scientist-C at KSCSTE-Kerala Forest Research Institute.

Mrs. Ashvini D. Chendake did M.Tech in Renewable Energy Sources from Junagadh Agricultural University, Gujrat, India. She received B.Tech in Agricultural Engineering from BSKKV Dapoli, India in 2010. She has more than 10 years of experience in teaching and research for Agricultural Engineering. Earlier, she served as an Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Engineering, Maharashtra Institute of Technology, Aurangabad, India. She is awarded Best Teacher Award, Best presentation award and several prestigious awards in academic field. Her research areas include Agricultural Engineering, Water management, Renewable and Bioenergy sources, Farm management and agricultural mechanization, Agricultural structure designs, Agricultural system management, etc. She is also serving as Editorial Board Member/Reviewers for International Journals and member for several scientific societies in the field of agriculture and allied sciences. She has published many papers in international journals as well as presented the work at national and international conferences in the area of water resource engineering.