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Co-implementation of precision nutrient management in long-term conservation agriculture-based systems: A step towards sustainable energy-water-food nexus

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Title Co-implementation of precision nutrient management in long-term conservation agriculture-based systems: A step towards sustainable energy-water-food nexus
 
Creator Parihar, Chhiter Mal
Meena, Bolta Ram
Nayak, Harisankar
Patra, Kiranmoy
Sena, Dipaka Ranjan
Singh, Raj
Jat, S. L.
Sharma, Dinesh Kumar
Mahala, Deep Mohan
Patra, Sridhar
Rupesh
Rathi, Neelmani
Choudhary, Madhu
Jat, Mangi L.
Abdallah, Ahmed M.
 
Subject nutrient management
conservation agriculture
water productivity
maize
wheat
 
Description The conventionally managed cereal-based cropping systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia are energy intensive that overwhelm the farm profits and the environmental footprint. This research addresses a complex nexus between yield-energy-water-GHG footprints-economics of conservation agriculture (CA)-based intensified maize-wheat-mungbean rotation. This study evaluated the effect of long-term CA (2012–2020) with optimum nutrient management (2017–20) on energy budgeting, productivity, water and C-footprints, Water productivity (WP), and economics of the CA-based maize-wheat-mungbean system. CA-based permanent bed- and zero tillage flatbed with preceding crop residue retention were compared with the conventional till with preceding crop residue incorporation. These treatments were factored over three-nutrient management alternatives, i.e., GreenSeeker®-guided-N, site-specific nutrient management (SSNM), and recommended fertilizers' dose (Ad-hoc), were compared with farmers' fertilizers practices (FFP). Permanent bed and zero tillage treatments registered higher systems' productivity (18.2 and 12.0%), net returns (44.7 and 34.7%) and water productivity (35.6% and 22.1%), and C-sequestration (54.8 and 62.3%), respectively, over conventional till. Permanent bed- and zero tillage treatments increased the systems' net energy (NE), energy use efficiency (EUE), energy productivity (EP), and energy intensity (EI) by 22.6 and 14.0; 10.1 and 5.6; 9.7 and 5.4; 28.3 and 24.0%, respectively, over conventional till. Conventional till recorded higher net CO2-eq emission (26.5 and 27.2%), C-footprint (20.8 and 14.5%), and water footprint (27.3 and 18.0%) than permanent bed- and zero tillage treatments. SSNM increased the system's productivity, water productivity, and energy use efficiency, while reducing the system's water- and C-footprints and net CO2-eq emission. Thus, adopting permanent beds as a crop establishment method with SSNM could be a feasible alternative to attain higher productivity, profitability, and resource use efficiency in the maize-wheat-mungbean system in northwest India.
 
Date 2022-06-01
2023-01-18T23:05:08Z
2023-01-18T23:05:08Z
 
Type Journal Article
 
Identifier Parihar, C.M., Meena, B.R., Nayak, H.S., Patra, K., Sena, D.R., Singh, R., Jat, S.L., Sharma, D.K., Mahala, D.M., Patra, S., Rupesh, Rathi, N., Choudhary, M., Jat, M.L. and Abdallah, A.M. 2022. Co-implementation of precision nutrient management in long-term conservation agriculture-based systems: A step towards sustainable energy-water-food nexus. Energy, 254, 124243.
0360-5442
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/127485
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124243
 
Language en
 
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Limited Access
 
Format 124243
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Source Energy