Crop diversification – to ensure and promote sustainable natural resources use.
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Crop diversification – to ensure and promote sustainable natural resources use.
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Dass S
Jat SL Chaikkappa GK Parihar CM Chaudahry M Kumar R |
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Crop Diversification, Sustainable
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Maize is known as queen of cereals because it has the highest genetic yield potential among the cereals. It is cultivated on nearly 187 million ha in about 166 countries having wider diversity of soil, climate, biodiversity and management practices that contributes nearly 40% (1135 million t) in the global grain production during 2017 (FAOSTAT, 2019). India rank 4th in area while stood at 6th position in maize production largely because of the average productivity in India is less than 2.5 t ha-1. The lesser maize productivity in India is largely due to >75% of its 9.63 million ha cultivated area is rainfed mainly during kharif season which is a gamble of South-West monsoon. In India maize is the third most important cereal food crop after rice and wheat. It is used as human food (24%), animal feed (11%), poultry feed (52%). The important maize based cropping systems in India under irrigated and rainfed conditions of different agro-climatic zones being practice. Among different maize based cropping systems, maizewheat ranks 1st having 1.8 m ha area mainly concentrated in rainfed ecologies and is the 3rd most important cropping systems in India. The other major maize systems in India are maize- mustard, maize- chickpea, maize-maize, cotton-maize etc. Recently, due to changing scenario of natural resource base, rice-maize has emerged a potential maize based cropping system in peninsular and eastern India. In peri-urban interface, maize based high value intercropping systems are also gaining importance due to market driven farming. Further, maize has compatibility with several crops of different growth habit that led to development of various intercropping systems in our country. Not Available |
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2020-12-25T16:58:50Z
2020-12-25T16:58:50Z 2020-02-10 |
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Proceedings
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Dass S, Jat SL, Chaikkappa GK, Parihar CM, Chaudahry M, Kumar R (2020) Crop diversification – to ensure and promote sustainable natural resources use. In: Souvenir and Book of Abstracts of National Seminar on ‘’Maize for Crop Diversification under Changing Climatic Scenario’’ held on feburary 09-10, 2020, Ludhiana, Punjab, India. pp.28-31
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English
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Maize Technologists Association of India
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