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A challenge for today’s agriculture is to ensure food and nutritional security for the rapidly growing global population. The global population is expected to reach 8.55 billion by 2030, 9.77 billion by 2050, and 11.18 billion by 2100 (UN 2017), along with the concomitant increase in global food demand. It is estimated that about 795 million of the 7.55 billion global population, or one person in nine, are prone to hunger (UN 2015). Of these, about 782 million are living in developing countries, representing 12.5% of the population of the regional population (UN 2015), signifying the key role of agricultural improvement. Therefore, the agriculture is under tremendous pressure to (1) manage food and nutritional security for the growing population,(2) mitigate climate change and its adverse effects, and (3) improve soil quality and the natural resource base (Lal 2015; Meena et al. 2015a). Hence, there is a need to incorporate …