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Influence of 16 years of fertilization and manuring on carbon sequestration and agronomic productivity of groundnut in vertisol of semi-arid tropics of Western India

Carbon Management, 2021
Productivity of cropland soils, especially in arid and semi-arid tropics of India rigorously declined due to increasing losses of soil organic carbon (SOC) over the past decades.
Ch. Srinivasarao, Sumanta Kundu, B. S. Yashavanth, S. Rakesh, K. N. Akbari, G. S. Sutaria, V. D. Vora, D. S. Hirpara, K.A Gopinath, G. R. Chary, J. V. N. S. Prasad, N. S. Bolan, B. Venkateswarlu   +12 more
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GIS-Based Evaluation of Soil Suitability for Optimized Production on U.S. Tribal Lands

Agriculture, 2022
Optimizing soil—crop—landscape occurrence is essential for sustainable intensification and food security, but little work has been done to evaluate these parameters on Tribal lands.
Harrison W. Smith, Amanda J. Ashworth, Phillip R. Owens   +2 more
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Yield sustainability in mango (Mangifera indica) as influenced by different levels of foliar Zn sprays

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2022
Zn nutrient technology impacting mango (Mangifera indica L.) sustainability and nutrient components in pulp, peel and stone of fruit needs to be addressed on sandy loam soils for farmers’ benefit.
TARUN ADAK, KAILASH KUMAR, G PANDEY, VINOD KUMAR SINGH   +3 more
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Conservation Agriculture Based Integrated Crop Management Sustains the Maize–Wheat Rotation of North-Western India: Five Years’ Impacts on Crops and Water Productivity, Economic Profitability, Sustainable Yield Index and Soil Properties [PDF]

, 2021
Abstract We have evaluated eight different integrated crop management (ICM) modules for five years in a maize-wheat rotation (MWR); wherein, ICM1&2- ˈbusiness-as-usualˈ (conventional flatbed maize and wheat, ICM3&4- conventional raised bed (CTRB) maize and wheat without residues, ICM5&6- conservation agriculture (CA)-based zero till
Vijay Pooniya, R. R. Zhiipao, Niraj Biswakarma, Dinesh Kumar, Y. S. Shivay, Subhash Babu, Kajal Das, A. K. Choudhary, Karivaradharajan Swarnalakshmi, R.D. Jat, R. L. Choudhary, Hardev Ram, Mukesh Khokhar, Ganapati Mukri, K. K. Lakhena, M. M. Puniya, Rajkumar Jat, L. Muralikrishnan, A.K. Singh, Achal Lama   +19 more
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Conservation agriculture practices improves productivity and sustainability of peanut (Arachis hypogaea)-based cropping systems

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2021
To assess the influence of conservation agriculture (CA) practices on productivity and sustainability of peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) - based cropping systems, the present field experiment was conducted for five consecutive years (2011-12 to 2015-16) at
N K JAIN, RAM A JAT, R S YADAV, H N MEENA   +3 more
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Heat tolerance indices as tools for characterizing resilient wheat (Triticum aestivum) RILs population under thermal stress

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2023
The escalating impact of heat stress on agriculture due to climate change has necessitated the development of heat- tolerant crop varieties. To address this, a study was carried out at research farm of CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana
MANDEEP REDHU, VIKRAM SINGH, SOMVEER NIMBAL, MOHINDER SINGH DALAL, SONU LANGAYA, KRITIKA SHARMA, RUKOO CHAWLA, MUKESH KUMAR POONIA   +7 more
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Management of rice straw with relay cropping of Chinese milk vetch improved double-rice cropping system production in southern China

Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 2020
Improved utilization of rice (Oryza sativa L.) straw and Chinese milk vetch (Astragalus sinicus L., vetch) has positive effects on rice production.
Xing ZHOU, Yu-lin LIAO, Yan-hong LU, Robert M. REES, Wei-dong CAO, Jun NIE, Mei LI   +6 more
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Design of temperature insurance index and risk zonation for single-season rice in response to high-temperature and low-temperature damage: a case study of Jiangsu Province, China. [PDF]

, 2019
Disaster insurance is an important tool for achieving sustainable development in modern agriculture. However, in China, the design of such insurance indexes is far from sufficient.
Bai, Clarke, Huang, Jewson, Ji Guo, Jiajia Jin, Lu, Luo, Meng, Miranda, Qiang, Skees, Wang, Xianhua Wu, Xu, Yinshan Tang, You, Zhang, Zuo   +18 more
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Long-Term Green Manure Rotations Improve Soil Biochemical Properties, Yield Sustainability and Nutrient Balances in Acidic Paddy Soil under a Rice-Based Cropping System

Agronomy, 2019
Cultivation of green manure (GM) crops in intensive cropping systems is important for enhancing crop productivity through soil quality improvement. We investigated yield sustainability, nutrient stocks, nutrient balances and enzyme activities affected by
Muhammad Qaswar, Huang Jing, Waqas Ahmed, Li Dongchu, Liu Shujun, Sehrish Ali, Liu Kailou, Xu Yongmei, Zhang Lu, Liu Lisheng, Gao Jusheng, Zhang Huimin   +11 more
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ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehmankhera, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226 101, India

The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2020
Improvement of sustainable yield index (SYI) in fruit crop is the most important aspect of orchard sustainability and economic enhancement of fruit growers for which an investigation was laid out to improve SYI in guava (Psidium guajava L.) cv Shewta ...
Tarun Adak, Kailash Kumar, S K Shukla, G Pandey   +3 more
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