Showing posts with label cropping systems. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cropping systems. Show all posts

Monday, 5 June 2023

Quantifying Major Crops, Cropping Systems and Farming Systems: A Case Study in the Mid Central Table Land Zone of Odisha State in India | Chapter 6 | Current Perspectives in Agriculture and Food Science Vol. 4

 The dropping trend of per capita land chance with shy operational holding height poses a serious challenge to the sustainability and productivity of existent farming structures especially in marginal and narrow households. Food security, contracting generation, conservation of water, maintenance of soil health, pertaining to food security and preservation of natural resources are the emerging issues in present scenario and appropriate cropping system and culture system can guarantee the highest standard of food result and meet with household demand for equalized food and improve the reusing of organic waste and increasing the job opportunity. Integration of locally free farm resources with renovation of environment is essential for providing household food and digestive security to billion plus populace. The overall aim in the case study to build sustainable country livelihood and promote tumor of rural commerce. The Mid-central table land zone of Odisha state covers the precinct Angul, Dhenkanal, part of Cuttack and Jajpur. Although edible grain is the district's main crop, vegetables like brinjal yield the maximal net returns. The two main cropping systems in the neighborhood are rice-produce and rice-groundnut, and the edible grain-brinjal cropping system offers the best net return due to larger system productivity than additional cropping structures.  Crop-horticulture-poultry ranching systems, which are reasonable from an economic and output standpoint, have produced ultimate profit. As a result, the current rice-based cutting system maybe effectively diversified by contain vegetables like brinjal in cutting sequences and crop-horticulture-poultry cultivation systems, both of that are sustainable for maintaining production and increasing profit.

Author(s) Details:

Tiryak Kumar Samant,
Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Orissa University of Agriculture and Technology, Angul-759132, Odisha, India.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/CPAFS-V4/article/view/10790


Monday, 23 May 2022

Identification of Economically Viable Cropping Systems for Vertisols of Northern Telangana, India: A Recent Study| Chapter 9 | Research Developments in Science and Technology Vol.4

This research was carried out in 2016-17 at the AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur, with the goal of diversifying existing rice-rice cropping systems with less water-demanding crops for vertisols of Northern Telangana Zone under irrigated dry conditions. In a three-replication Randomized Block Design (RBD) experiment, twelve cropping systems were utilised as treatments. During the kharif and rabi seasons, twelve cropping system combinations were examined. On a system level, the turmeric+soybean (1:2) BBF– sesame+blackgram (2:4) turmeric – sesame cropping cycle produced considerably greater production in terms of rice equivalent yield (REY) of 23830 kg ha-1. However, with production of 23332 kg ha-1 and 21389 kg ha-1, it was comparable to turmeric – sesame and turmeric + soybean (1:2) on flat bed – bajra crop sequences. Rice-rice farming strategy had lower production (10725 kg ha-1). Bt. cotton – sesame + black gramme (2:4) on BBF (Rs222838 ha-1) came in first, followed by Bt Cotton + Soybean (1:2) (BBF) – Sesamum + Groundnut (2:4) (Rs221160 ha-1) and Maize+soybean (2:4)–tomato (Rs221160 ha-1) (Rs212909 ha-1). In the traditional rice-rice scheme, lower net returns were recorded (Rs88179 ha-1). Bt Cotton + Soybean (1:2) (BBF)- Sesamum + Groundnut ((2:4) and Maize+soybean (2:4)–tomato were economically better with REE of 152.71 percent, 150.81 percent, and 141.45 percent, respectively. In the vertisols of Northern Telangana Zone, rice-rice farming is less productive and economically inferior for the majority of farmers, indicating a greater possibility to diversify existing rice-rice cropping systems with high-yielding, economically viable cropping systems.


Author(s) Details:

Firdoz Shahana,
AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, Sub Centre: Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur- 503188, Nizamabad District, Telangana State, India.

M. Goverdhan,
AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, Sub Centre: Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur- 503188, Nizamabad District, Telangana State, India.

S. Sridevi,
AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, Sub Centre: Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur- 503188, Nizamabad District, Telangana State, India.

B. Joseph,
AICRP on Integrated Farming Systems, Sub Centre: Regional Sugarcane and Rice Research Station, Rudrur- 503188, Nizamabad District, Telangana State, India.

Please see the link here: https://stm.bookpi.org/RDST-V4/article/view/6857

Wednesday, 5 May 2021

Research on Dry Matter Production, Nutrient Cycled and Removed as Well as Soil Fertility Changes in Yam-Based Cropping Systems with Herbaceous Legumes in the Guinea-Sudan Zone of Benin | Chapter 9 | New Ideas Concerning Science and Technology Vol. 12

 Deforestation and soil nutrient degradation are common outcomes of traditional yam-based cropping systems (shifting cultivation, slash-and-burn, and short fallow). The aim of this research was to see how yam-based systems with herbaceous legumes affected dry matter (DM) production (tubers, shoots), nutrient removal and recycling, and soil fertility changes. Traditional smallholder systems (1-year fallow of Andropogon gayanus-yam rotation, maize-yam rotation) were compared to yam-based systems with herbaceous legumes (Aeschynomene histrix/maize intercropping-yam rotation, Mucuna pruriens/maize intercropping-yam rotation). The experiment was performed with 32 farmers, eight in each location, during the cropping seasons of 2002 and 2004. A partial nested model with five factors: Year, Replication, Farmer, Site, and Treatment was used to conduct a randomised full block design with four treatments and four replicates for each of them. Dry matter (DM) output (tubers, shoots), nutrient contribution to the systems, and soil properties were studied using analysis of variance (ANOVA) and the general linear model (GLM) procedure at depths of 0–10 and 10–20 cm. In contrast to conventional systems, yam-based systems with legumes greatly improved DM removal and recycling, complete N, P, and K recycling or removal, and soil chemical properties (SOM, N, P, K, and pH water). Interactions between treatment, farmer, and year treatment affected yam tuber dry matter development significantly. In yam-based systems with legumes, the amounts of N, P, and K recycled in the yam shoot were substantially higher than in conventional systems.

Author (s) Details

Raphiou Maliki
Institut National des Recherches Agricoles du Benin´ (INRAB), P.O.Box 2128, Calavi, Benin

Brice Sinsin
Faculte´ des Sciences Agronomiques de l’Universite´ d’Abomey-Calavi (FSA/UAC), P.O. Box 01-526, Cotonou, Benin

Anne Floquet
Centre Beninois´ pour l’Environnement et le Developpement´ Economique et Social (CEBEDES), P.O.Box 02-331, Cotonou, Benin

Denis Cornet
Centre de Cooperation´ Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement´ (CIRAD), 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Eric Malezieux
Centre de Cooperation´ Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement´ (CIRAD), UPR Hortsys, 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

Philippe Vernier
Centre de Cooperation´ Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement´ (CIRAD), 34398 Montpellier Cedex 5, France

View Book :- https://stm.bookpi.org/NICST-V12/article/view/779