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Role of Pulses in Sustaining Agricultural Productivity in the Rainfed Rice-Fallow Lands of India in Changing Climatic Scenario

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Title Role of Pulses in Sustaining Agricultural Productivity in
the Rainfed Rice-Fallow Lands of India in Changing
Climatic Scenario
 
Creator Pande, S
Sharma, M
Ghosh, R
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description With the growing recognition of the possibility of global climate change, an increasing
emphasis on world food security in general and its regional impacts in particular have come to
forefront of the scientific community. Agriculture production of rainfed regions is expected to
suffer severe water crisis due to delayed monsoon, uneven distribution of rain as a result of
climate change. The impact of climate change on pulses appears to be more serious. It is most
unlikely that any additional area will be available for pulses cultivation in future, due to more
returns with cereals under irrigation and also due to shrinking land base for agriculture. However,
about 12 million hectares remains fallow during the post-rainy season after harvest of rainy
season rice in the India and diverse soil types and climatic conditions of the rainfed rice fallow
lands (RRFL) are suitable for growing both cool season and warm season pulses profitably
during post rainy-season. The residual moisture left in the soil at the time of rice harvest will be
sufficient to raise a short-season pulse crops. Further, by use of short duration and high
yielding varieties of rice allowing rice to vacate fields in September-October, the traditional
RRFL cropping can be converted into rice-pulses system. Inclusion of cool season and warm
season pulses such as chickpea, lentil, mungbean, urdbean, fababean, lathyrus, peas etc. in
RRFL will increase the productivity as well as the sustainability of the rice. This paper discusses
the opportunities for the introduction of pulses and its expansion in RRFL with best bet
technological interventions of crop establishment, integrated crop management and need for
policy support for their use as an integral part of daily diet and a source of income to millions
of resource poor farmers in the above regions.
 
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Date 2012
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6150/1/Role_of_pulses_spande_et.al.2012.pdf
Pande, S and Sharma, M and Ghosh, R (2012) Role of Pulses in Sustaining Agricultural Productivity in the Rainfed Rice-Fallow Lands of India in Changing Climatic Scenario. In: Climate Change and Food Security in India (Proceedings of the National Symposium on Food Security in Context of Changing Climate), 30 October –01 November 2010, CSAUAT, Kanpur, India.