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Long‑term conservation agriculture and best nutrient management improves productivity and profitability coupled with soil properties of a maize–chickpea rotation

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Title Long‑term conservation agriculture and best nutrient management improves productivity and profitability coupled with soil properties of a maize–chickpea rotation
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Creator Vijay Pooniya
R. R. Zhiipao
Niraj Biswakarma
S. L. Jat
Dinesh Kumar
C. M. Parihar
K. Swarnalakshmi
Achal Lama
A. K. Verma
Debasish Roy
Kajal Das
K. Majumdar
T. Satyanarayana
R. D. Jat
P. C. Ghasal
Hardev Ram
Rajkumar Jat
Amlan Nath
 
Subject Conservation agriculture
maize chickpea
 
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Conservation agriculture (CA)-based practices have been promoted and recouped, as they hold the
potential to enhance farm profits besides a consistent improvement in soil properties. A 7 years’ field
experiment consisting of three crop establishment practices viz., zero-till flatbed (ZTFB), permanent
beds (PNB), conventional system (CT) along with the three-nutrient management; nutrient expertbased
application (NE), recommended fertilization (RDF), and farmers’ fertilizer practice (FFP), was
carried out from 2013 to 2020. The CA-based practices (ZTFB/PNB) produced 13.9–17.6% greater
maize grain-equivalent yield (MGEY) compared to the CT, while NE and RDF had 10.7–20% greater
MGEY than the FFP. PNB and ZTFB gave 28.8% and 24% additional net returns than CT, while NE
and RDF had 22.8% and 17.4% greater returns, respectively over FFP. PNB and ZTFB had 2.3–4.1%
(0.0–0.20 m soil layers) lower bulk density than the CT. Furthermore, microbial biomass carbon (MBC)
increased by 8–19% (0.0–0.50 m soil layers) in ZTFB/PNB over the CT, and by 7.6–11.0% in NE/RDF
over FFP. Hence, CA-based crop establishment coupled with the NE or RDF could enhance the yields,
farm profits, soil properties of the maize–chickpea rotation, thereby, could sustain production in the
long run.
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Date 2022-03-16T09:45:12Z
2022-03-16T09:45:12Z
2021-05-17
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/70265
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Nature