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The demand for organic cotton is primarily driven by manufacturers and brands with a corporate focus on environmental and social responsibility.
Shradha S. Aherkar +6 more
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Diversification of rice-wheat cropping system to sustain the productivity and profitability
The field experiments were conducted during 2017-19 at the ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India. The main aim of the study was to find out a suitable cropping system that can replace the existing rice-wheat cropping system to ...
DINESH KUMAR +8 more
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In India agriculture holds an incredibly predominant position in the expansion of our country’s financial system. It is one of the fields which generates most of the employment opportunity in our country. Farmers, due to lack of their knowledge about different soil contents and environment conditions, do not opt the exact crop for nurturing, which ...
Maaz Patel, Anagha Rane
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Alternatives to rice-wheat cropping system under partially reclaimed sodic soils
A field experiment was conducted during 2013-14 to 2015-16 at Central Soil Salinity Research Institute, Regional Research Station, Lucknow to find out the alternate to rice (Oryza sativa L.)- wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping system under partially ...
YASH PAL SINGH +2 more
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Palm oil is the most consumed edible oil in the world. Roughly half of the production originates from Indonesia, where the expansion of the crop has been criticized from an environmental perspective.
Victor Baron +4 more
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Agricultural biodiversity and related agro-ecological measures could play a crucial role in the agro-ecosystems adaptation to climate changes, thus sustaining crop production.
Mariangela Diacono +6 more
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IntroductionClimate change, pest infestation, and soil degradation are significantly reducing wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) yield. Wheat is cultivated in rice-wheat and cotton-wheat cropping systems and escalating global population is exerting substantial
Waqas Ahmed Minhas +7 more
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Can a change in cropping patterns produce water savings and social gains: A case study from the Fergana Valley, Central Asia [PDF]
The study examines possible water savings by replacing alfalfa with winter wheat in the Fergana Valley, located upstream of the Syrdarya River in Central Asia.
Abdurakhmannov, Botir +3 more
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Improving In-Situ Estimation of Soil Profile Properties Using a Multi-Sensor Probe
Optical diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (DRS) has been used for estimating soil physical and chemical properties in the laboratory. In-situ DRS measurements offer the potential for rapid, reliable, non-destructive, and low cost measurement of soil ...
Xiaoshuai Pei +3 more
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Productivity of winter rye in organic vs. Conventional cropping system [PDF]
Rye is a cereal which is very much demanded at the market, for making a special kind of bread, but it is little grown in Serbia. The aim of this paper is to investigate possibilities of organic growing of winter rye, comparing with the conventional ...
Oljača Jasmina M. +4 more
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