Designing profitable, resource use efficient and environmentally sound cereal based systems for the Western Indo-Gangetic plains.

ABSTRACT: In the western Indo-Gangetic plains, issues of deterioration in soil, water, and environment quality coupled with low profitability jeopardize the sustainability of the dominant rice-wheat (RW) system. To address these issues, crop diversification and conservation agriculture (CA)-based management hold considerable promise but the adoption of both approaches has been low, and additional evidence generation from a multi-criteria productivity and sustainability perspective is likely required to help drive the change. Compared to prevailing farmers' practice (FP), results suggest that CA-based rice management increased profitability by 13% and energy use efficiency (EUE) by 21% while reducing irrigation by 19% and global warming potential (GWP) by 28%. By substituting CA-based maize for rice,

SUBMITTER: Jat HS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7648623 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature