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Sustainable Intensification of a Rice–Maize System through Conservation Agriculture to Enhance System Productivity in Southern India

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Title Sustainable Intensification of a Rice–Maize System through Conservation Agriculture to Enhance System Productivity in Southern India
 
Creator Mangal Deep Tuti
Mahender Kumar Rapolu
Banugu Sreedevi
Nirmala Bandumula
Surekha Kuchi
Sonth Bandeppa
Soumya Saha
Brajendra Parmar
Santosha Rathod
Gabrijel Ondrasek
Raman Meenakshi Sundaram
 
Subject conservation agriculture
rice–maize system
southern India
sustainable intensification
 
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Integrated management of rice–maize systems is an emerging challenge in southern India due to improper rice residues and tillage management in maize crops. Conservation agriculture (CA) practices such as a reduced tillage and maintaining stubble mulch may hold the potential to increase yields, reduce crop establishment costs and increase farm incomes. A five-year trial was performed to study the effect of different CA and establishment methods in rice on system productivity, profitability, and soil carbon status in a rice–maize system. In the rainy season, the trial consisted of two main treatments: (i) normal manual transplanting and (ii) direct-wet seeding, and three sub-main treatments at different sowing dates with fifteen day intervals. In addition, in the winter season, two tillage treatments (conventional and minimum tillage) were imposed over the rainy season treatments. Both rice and maize were grown under irrigated conditions. The results showed that sowing times at 15 day intervals did not impact the yield significantly. Transplanted rice obtained a significantly higher grain yield during the first four years, but in the last year, the yield was similar in both of the establishment methods. In the winter season, conventional tilled maize recorded a higher cob yield than under the minimum tilled treatment, except for the last year, where both the tillage treatment effects were the same. System productivity of CA-based minimum tilled rice–maize was inferior during the first three years but was superior to the conventionally tilled method in the fourth and fifth year. Pooled analysis revealed that the conventionally tilled rice–maize system resulted in a similar system productivity as that of the CA during the study period. The cost–benefit analysis revealed that transplanted rice and conventionally tilled maize fetched higher net returns of INR 111,074 and INR 101,658/ha, respectively, over the direct-wet seeded rice and CA. In addition, the 15 July rice sown followed by the maize system led to an increase in irrigation water productivity by 15.7%, and the total water (irrigation + rainfall) productivity by 27.1% in the maize crop compared with the 30 July sown system. The CA-based rice–maize system resulted in a significantly higher very labile (0.194%) and labile (0.196%) carbon concentration at a 0–5 cm depth of soil compared to those under the conventional system. Thus, CA can be recommended for southern India and similar agro-ecological tropic and sub-tropic conditions. This system can be followed with appropriate location-specific modification in South-Asian countries, where crop yields and soil health are declining as a result of continuous cereal–cereal crop rotation.
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Date 2023-02-16T07:27:12Z
2023-02-16T07:27:12Z
2022-05-01
 
Type Article
 
Identifier Tuti, M. D., Rapolu, M.K., Sreedevi, B., Bandumula, N., Kuchi, S., Bandeppa, S., Saha, S., Parmar, B., Santosha Rathod., Ondrasek, G., and Sundaram, R. M. (2022). Sustainable Intensification of a Rice–Maize System through Conservation Agriculture to Enhance System Productivity in Southern India. Plants, 11, 1229. https://doi.org/10.3390/plants11091229.
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/76225
 
Language English
 
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Publisher MDPI