No-till farming and conservation agriculture in South Asia–issues, challenges, prospects and benefits

J Somasundaram, NK Sinha, RC Dalal… - Critical Reviews in …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Of late, intensive farming for higher food production is often associated with many negative
implications for soil systems, such as decline of soil organic matter (SOM), increase in risks …

Constraints and prospects of improving cowpea productivity to ensure food, nutritional security and environmental sustainability

OI Omomowo, OO Babalola - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Providing safe and secure food for an increasing number of people globally is challenging.
Coping with such a human population by merely applying the conventional agricultural …

[HTML][HTML] Conservation tillage (CT) for climate-smart sustainable intensification: Assessing the impact of CT on soil organic carbon accumulation, greenhouse gas …

MDM Rahman, S Aravindakshan, MA Hoque… - Environmental and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Soil organic carbon (SOC), greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and water footprint (WF) are
the key indicators of environmental sustainability in agricultural systems. Increasing SOC …

Rice–wheat cropping systems in South Asia: issues, options and opportunities

A Nawaz, M Farooq, F Nadeem… - Crop and Pasture …, 2019 - CSIRO Publishing
The rice (Oryza sativa L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping system is the largest
agricultural production system worldwide, and is practised on 24 Mha in Asia. Many factors …

A paradigm shift to CO2 sequestration to manage global warming–With the emphasis on developing countries

SS Bhattacharyya, FFGD Leite, MA Adeyemi… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Global land use changes that tend to satisfy the food needs of augmenting population is
provoking agricultural soils to act as a carbon (C) source rather than sink. Agricultural …

Conservation agriculture as an approach towards sustainable crop production: A review

J Shrestha, S Subedi, KP Timsina… - Farming and …, 2020 - indianjournals.com
Conservation agriculture systems with adequate crop and soil management packages have
been described as one of the long term solutions for the depletion of natural resources and …

Conservation agriculture for regenerating soil health and climate change mitigation in smallholder systems of South Asia

ML Jat, MK Gathala, M Choudhary, S Sharma… - Advances in …, 2023 - oar.icrisat.org
The increase in agriculture production to meet the food demand of growing human
population from a limited availability of arable land with low environmental footprints and …

[PDF][PDF] Sustainable intensification in agriculture: an approach for making agriculture greener and productive.

J Shrestha, S Subedi, KP Timsina, S Subedi, M Pandey… - 2021 - researchgate.net
Sustainable intensification of agriculture is a good approach for reducing the yield gap
without exacerbating the current condition of the environmental components, which is a big …

Bio-compost-based integrated soil fertility management improves post-harvest soil structural and elemental quality in a two-year conservation agriculture practice

MMR Jahangir, S Islam, TT Nitu, S Uddin, AKMA Kabir… - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
The impacts of integrated soil fertility management (ISFM) in conservation agriculture need
short-term evaluation before continuation of its long-term practice. A split-split plot …

Prospects and challenges of conservation agriculture in Bangladesh for sustainable sugarcane cultivation

SS Tabriz, MA Kader, M Rokonuzzaman… - Environment …, 2021 - Springer
Sugarcane is an industrial crop globally used for producing biofuels and bioproducts and is
the only source of white sugar in Bangladesh. However, labour-dependent cultivation and …