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Weed management role in increasing crop yield and doubling rice farmers’ income in India - An analysis

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Title Weed management role in increasing crop yield and doubling rice farmers’ income in India - An analysis
 
Creator Rao, A N
Wani, S P
Gajanan, S
Anantha, K H
Ladha, J K
 
Subject Rice
Weed Science
Crop Yield
Indian Agriculture
India
 
Description India produces 24.8% of world rice by standing first in
area (43.9 million ha) and second in production (106.5 million
tons) globally. Rice plays vital role in Indian food security as it
is staple food for two thirds of Indians supplying 33% of food
energy.Rice productivity and production are to be increased
to meet the demands of increasing population. Indian rice
farmers are constrained by escalating farming cost and
depleting income. The rice productivity in India is low (2.4 t/
ha) due to wide range of environmental conditions and ways it
is grown and the biological and physical constraints that
prevail. Among biological constraints weeds are major
causing yield losses of 10 to 100% depending on method of
rice establishment, associated weeds, cultural practices
adopted, environmental and other associated factors (Rao
and Nagamani 2010, Rao et al. 2015). Thus any effort
involving improvement in food grain production to meet
current and future food demands and double the farmers’
income must involve rice and weed management. The
objective of the present analysis is to assess weed
management role in attaining higher crop production and to double the income of rice farmers in India.
 
Date 2017-03
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/9897/1/Proceedings_of_ISWS_Biennial_Conference_249.pdf
Rao, A N and Wani, S P and Gajanan, S and Anantha, K H and Ladha, J K (2017) Weed management role in increasing crop yield and doubling rice farmers’ income in India - An analysis. In: Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Weed Science on “Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022: The Role of Weed Science, March 1-3, 2017, MPUA&T, Udaipur, Rajasthan.