The book titled, URBAN AGRICULTURE discusses the farming situation in and around the city of Tezpur. Urban growth and its effects on various land uses, particularly agriculture, are the main topics of the book. This book is written to provide readers with a thorough grasp of the Tezpur area’s urban, fringe, and peri-urban farming scenarios as well as the marketing patterns. Additionally, the GI-tagged fruit, i.e. Tezpur Litchi is given a prominent place in the book.

The book also examines the challenges and opportunities faced by peri-urban and urban farmers from a variety of angles. It is anticipated that the book will serve a wide range of readers inclusive of students, learners, research scholars, agricultural specialists, and policymakers who are interested in the field of Urban Planning, Land Use, Environment and Regional Planning in general.

Prof. Nishamani Kar is an academician at present
teaching Geography , Regional Planning and Disaster
management at Rajiv Gandhi University, Arunachal
Pradesh. He is a position holder in the M.Sc. of Utkal
University, Bhubaneswar and in the MRP at IIT,
Kharagpur. He has also worked as Senior Research
Fellow ( UGC ) in CSRD, SSS besides completing M.Phil

and Ph.D at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Prof. Kar has produced seventeen Ph.D scholars covering areas
like Forest Fire, Net work Anaslysis in NE India, Animal Husbandry, Rural
Development and Primitive and Vulnerable Tribes of Arunachal Pradesh.
A Fellow Member of ITPI, New Delhi, Prof. Kar has been working
in the field of Ecology, Envionment, Social Geography, Livestock Economy
besides Disaster management.
He has been one of the selected authors of ICSSR Research Survey
in Economic Geography. Prof. Kar is an Active researcher, analyst and
commentator and published a number of papers in Journals and edited books.

Dr. Sameer Baruah hails from Assam’s Biswanath
District and holds a graduate degree from THB College
with Geography as Honors subject and a masters degree
from Gauhati University with Fluvial Geomorphology
as Specialization. In addition, he is interested in medical
geography, agricultural geography, and rural
development. Dr. Baruah received his M.Phil and PhD
degrees from Rajiv Gandhi University in 2018 and 2022, respectively, under

the guidance of Prof. Nishamani Kar. He has published papers in peer-
reviewed, Scopus, and Web of Science journals. Furthermore, he has

delivered over 15 research papers at national and international seminars.
Dr. Baruah is currently employed as an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Geography at Moirabari College, Government of Assam.