[HTML][HTML] Conservation agriculture in India–Problems, prospects and policy issues

S Bhan, UK Behera - International Soil and Water Conservation Research, 2014 - Elsevier
Conservation agriculture (CA) technologies involve minimum soil disturbance, permanent
soil cover through crop residues or cover crops, and crop rotations for achieving higher …

Agronomic biofortification of cereal grains with iron and zinc

R Prasad, YS Shivay, D Kumar - Advances in agronomy, 2014 - Elsevier
Iron and zinc deficiencies in human nutrition are widespread in developing Asian and
African countries where cereal grains are the staple food. Effects are therefore underway to …

Precision nutrient management in conservation agriculture based wheat production of Northwest India: Profitability, nutrient use efficiency and environmental footprint

TB Sapkota, K Majumdar, ML Jat, A Kumar… - Field Crops …, 2014 - Elsevier
In the high-yielding wheat production systems in Northwest (NW) Indo-Gangetic Plains of
India, intensive tillage operations and blanket fertilizer recommendations have led to high …

Energy budgeting and carbon footprints of zero-tilled pigeonpea–wheat cropping system under sole or dual crop basis residue mulching and Zn-fertilization in a semi …

A Kumar, KS Rana, AK Choudhary, RS Bana… - Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Conventional agriculture is energy and carbon intensive. Single and double-crop basis
residue-mulching in zero-tilled crop-sequences may minimize carbon-footprint with …

Double no-till and permanent raised beds in maize–wheat rotation of north-western Indo-Gangetic plains of India: Effects on crop yields, water productivity, profitability …

ML Jat, MK Gathala, YS Saharawat, JP Tetarwal… - Field Crops …, 2013 - Elsevier
Excessive pumping of groundwater over the years to meet the high water requirement of
flooded rice crop and intensive tillage have threatened the sustainability of irrigated rice …

Conservation agriculture in irrigated intensive maize-based systems of north-western India: Effects on crop yields, water productivity and economic profitability

CM Parihar, SL Jat, AK Singh, B Kumar, S Pradhan… - Field Crops …, 2016 - Elsevier
In north-western India, maize-based systems are being advocated as an alternative to rice-
based systems to address the issues of resource degradation, particularly declining water …

Fostering sustainable agriculture: Do institutional factors impact the adoption of multiple climate-smart agricultural practices among new entry organic farmers in …

R Mazhar, A Ghafoor, B Xuehao, Z Wei - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Amidst recent environmental challenges, Climate-Smart Agricultural (CSA) practices have
been widely acknowledged as a prospective and effective alternative to sustainable food …

Conservation agriculture effects on crop and water productivity, profitability and soil organic carbon accumulation under a maize-wheat cropping system in the North …

TK Das, YS Saharawat, R Bhattacharyya… - Field Crops …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of India is dominated with rice− wheat cropping
system that occupies almost 10.5 million ha area. The sustainability of rice-wheat system is …

Bio-energy, water-use efficiency and economics of maize-wheat-mungbean system under precision-conservation agriculture in semi-arid agro-ecosystem

CM Parihar, SL Jat, AK Singh, K Majumdar, ML Jat… - Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
The maize-wheat-mungbean (MWMb) cropping system is being advocated as an alternative
to the traditional rice-based cropping systems of north-western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) to …

Energy and carbon footprints of wheat establishment following different rice residue management strategies vis-à-vis conventional tillage coupled with rice residue …

P Singh, G Singh, GPS Sodhi - Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Energy and carbon (C) footprints have close nexus in agriculture. Agri-inputs are energy
intensive and lead to significant C equivalent (CE) emissions. We studied energy and C …