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Acknowledgments
We sincerely wish to thank Margaret Deignan, Jill Ritchie, Susan Westendorf and
Chandhini Kuppusamy from Springer for their editorial support, guidance, and
cooperation. Rajan Chaurasiya is grateful to CSIR for a Junior Research Fellowship.
P.C. Abhilash is grateful to ICAR for the Lal Bhadur Shastri Outstanding Young
Scientist Award in Natural Resource Management. Dhananjaya Pratap Singh and
Cherukumalli Srinivasa Rao are grateful to ICAR for financial support. Special
thanks go to Prof. Panjab Singh, The President, National Academy of Agricultural
Sciences (NAAS) for his continuous motivation and encouragement.