Rice is the principal food commodity for millions of people. Its growing demand invokes for
an enhanced productivity, but with limited land and water resources. Among various biotic …

Aerobic rice systems can substitute the conventional rice cultivation system in the wake of
water shortage and energy crises. The major constraint in the success of aerobic rice is high …

No-till agriculture represents a relatively widely adopted management system that aims to
reduce soil erosion, decrease input costs, and sustain long-term crop productivity. However …

In the most productive area of the Indo-Gangetic Plains in Northwest India where high yields
of rice and wheat are commonplace, a medium-term cropping system trial was conducted in …

Retention of carbon (C) in arable soils has been considered as a potential mechanism to
mitigate soil degradation and to sustain crop productivity. Hence, we appraised the 3-year …

In the rice–wheat (RW) systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, conservation
tillage practices, including zero-tillage (ZT), are being promoted to address emerging …

Adoption of conservation agriculture (CA) has been hampered in puddled rice-based
cropping systems. In this study, we developed a method for transplanting rice (Oryza sativa …

Aerobic rice describes a management adaptation to reduced irrigation water supplies but,
due to reduced intervals of flooding in this system, this requires revised weed management …

Lower water availability coupled with labor shortage has resulted in the increasing inability
of growers to cultivate puddled transplanted rice (PTR). A field study was conducted in the …

A 3-year (2006–2007 to 2008–2009) field study was conducted to evaluate the effect of four
tillage systems {zero tillage (ZT) in rice (Oryza sativa L.) and wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) …