Meet the editor

Dr. Amanullah is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Faculty of Crop Production Sciences, University of Agriculture Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Amanullah obtained a PhD in Agronomy from the University of Agriculture Peshawar in 2004 and a post doctorate from Dryland Agriculture Institute, WTAMU, Canyon Texas, USA, in 2010. He has published more than twenty books and more than 200 research

papers in peer-reviewed journals, including 100 papers in impact factor journals. He has edited three books: *Rice–Technology and Production* (2017), *Nitrogen in Agriculture-Updates* (2018), and *Corn: Production and Human Health in Changing Climate* (2018). Dr. Amanullah has been awarded three Research Productivity Awards by the Pakistan Council for Science and Technology (PCST), Islamabad. He represented Pakistan in the FAO Intergovernmental technical panel on soil of the Global Soil Partnership (2015–2018). Dr. Amanullah also won first prize in the innovative research proposal competition arranged by DICE at the University of Gujarat in 2013–2014.

Contents

Development Goals

*and Mustafa Yildiz*

Hidden Hunger

*and Prashant Kaushik*

*by Amanullah and Shah Khalid*

Factors Affecting Yield of Crops

**Preface XI**

**Chapter 1 1**

**Chapter 2 9**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 35**

**Chapter 5 55**

**Chapter 6 73**

Agronomy-Food Security-Climate Change and the Sustainable

Possible Impacts of Climate Change on Sunflower Yield in Turkey *by Hudaverdi Gurkan, Yasin Ozgen, Nilgun Bayraktar, Huseyin Bulut* 

Breeding for Biofortification Traits in Rice: Means to Eradicate

*by Vinay Sharma, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Ashish Kumar, Hari Kesh* 

*by Navjot Singh Brar, Dinesh Kumar Saini, Prashant Kaushik,* 

*by Pablo Gonzalez-De-Santos, Roemi Fernández, Delia Sepúlveda,* 

Directing for Higher Seed Production in Vegetables

*Jyoti Chauhan and Navish Kumar Kamboj*

*Eduardo Navas and Manuel Armada*

Unmanned Ground Vehicles for Smart Farms

*by Tandzi Ngoune Liliane and Mutengwa Shelton Charles*
