Highlights RWC 2006 - RCT Induced Impacts in Indo-Gangetic Plains
Gupta, Raj K. [on PRISM]
10 pages
Published 1/2007
Published Annually

Rice-wheat cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) though look simple but are difficult to manage on a sustainable basis due to complex rice ecologies and contrasting edaphic requirement of this cropping system. Sustainability dimensions of this cropping system importantly include inefficient use of water, declining water tables, nutrient mining and natural resource fatigue. Rice generally grown as puddled transplanted crop, is a major consumer of irrigation and lead to decline in water table, deteriorates soil structure, and increases the costs of cultivation. The major challenge for the consortium partners has been to grow rice using agronomic and crop management practices developed for zero-till wheat...... for more information pl click the download link given below

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