The food-energy-water-carbon nexus in a maize-maize-mustard cropping sequence of the Indian Himalayas: An impact of tillage-cum-live mulching

GS Yadav, A Das, BK Kandpal, S Babu, R Lal… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
Amid the current environmental crises that exert enormous pressure on the arable lands,
there is a need to adopt environment-friendly effective but highly productive conservation …

Restoration of agroecosystems with conservation agriculture for food security to achieve sustainable development goals

A Kumawat, D Yadav, P Srivastava… - Land Degradation & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, agroecosystems sustainability is mainly challenged by unsustainable agricultural
practices that lead to land degradation and amplified climate change. About 25% of the …

No-till and mulching enhance energy use efficiency and reduce carbon footprint of a direct-seeded upland rice production system

GS Yadav, S Babu, A Das, KP Mohapatra… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sustainability of conventional agricultural production systems is threatened by triple
challenges of energy and environmental crises, deteriorating natural resources bases, and …

[HTML][HTML] Soil carbon dynamics under organic farming: Impact of tillage and cropping diversity

S Babu, R Singh, R Avasthe, S Kumar, SS Rathore… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Ecological indicators are herculean contrivance for assessing management practices'
impacts on environmental changes. Soil organic carbon (SOC) potentially regulates the …

Implications of minimum tillage and integrated nutrient management on yield and soil health of rice-lentil cropping system–being a resource conservation technology

U Bhattacharya, MK Naskar… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Conventional tillage methods and indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers are causes of
edaphic problems like soil degradation and loss of soil fertility which reduces crop yield …

Conservation tillage and organic nutrients management improve soil properties, productivity, and economics of a maize‐vegetable pea system in the Eastern …

R Singh, S Babu, RK Avasthe… - Land Degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soil quality restoration and sustainable crop production in the rainfed ecosystem of the
Indian Himalayas can be achieved through effective conservation tillage and organic …

Productivity, soil health, and carbon management index of soybean-wheat cropping system under double zero-tillage and natural-farming based organic nutrient …

G Verma, AK Dhaka, B Singh, A Kumar… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Conservation-agriculture and organic-farming are two sustainable-agriculture approaches to
ensure food security and environmental-sustainability. Hence, a field study assessed the …

Using industrial wastes for rice-wheat cropping and food-energy-carbon-water-economic nexus to the sustainable food system

RS Meena, G Pradhan, S Kumar, R Lal - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2023 - Elsevier
This experiment aimed to develop a long-term sustainable food-energy-water-carbon-
economic nexus module by converting industrial wastes (IWs) to compost. In the …

Improvement of soil health through residue management and conservation tillage in rice-wheat cropping system of Punjab, Pakistan

A Zahid, S Ali, M Ahmed, N Iqbal - Agronomy, 2020 - mdpi.com
In South Asia, soil health degradation is affecting the sustainability of the rice-wheat
cropping system (RWCS). Indeed, for the sustainability of the soil quality, new adaptive …

Sustaining the properties of black soil in Central India through crop residue management in a conservation‐agriculture‐based soybean–wheat system

D Yadav, AK Vishwakarma, NK Sharma… - Land Degradation & …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Soybean–wheat cropping system is the most commonly used in the black soil of India which
produces enormous amounts of nutrient‐rich residues. However, black soil has some …