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Pest management in pulses under rice-wheat crop diversification

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Title Pest management in pulses under rice-wheat crop diversification
 
Creator Pande, S
Ali, M
Gupta, R K
Kishore, G K
 
Subject Chickpea
Pigeonpea
Groundnut
Wheat
 
Description Concerted research and developmental efforts supported by government policies brought a
paradigm shift in favour of rice-wheat cropping system (RWCS) in the last three decades in
the Indian Indo-Gangetic plain (IGP). This shift has relegated traditional pulses such as
chickpea and lentil to less favourable environments. There are increasing concerns that high
input rice-wheat cropping rotation in the IGP is reaching productivity limit, and further that
the edaphic resource base is under threat due to various degradation process. As the
sustainability of such input systems is increasingly under question throughout the IGP, it has
become necessary to readdress, and further rehabilitate pulses for the sustainability of the
RWCS. However, the evidences revealed that pulses are prone to several abiotic, biotic and
socio economic constraints in augmenting their production. Among biotic constraints important
ones are diseases and insect pests. Together these two biotic constraints can cause a total
loss to a pulse crop. Enormous opportunities exist for production of pulses with integrated
pest management (IPM) in the RWCS, such as short duration mungbean as a summer crop,
pigeonpea in rotation with rice, and chickpea and lentil in rotation with wheat. It is, therefore,
critical to delineate the promising niches in the RWCS for each pulse crop and introduce
appropriate IPM technology with available components of pest management. Also, there is a
need to create a favourable environment for pulse culti vanon and IPM promotion through
policy support. This paper critically examines the niches for rehabilitation of pulses and
promotion of IPM for sustainability of the RWCS.
 
Date 2004
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4285/1/PestManagenlentInPulsesUnderRice-Wheat_2004.pdf
Pande, S and Ali, M and Gupta, R K and Kishore, G K (2004) Pest management in pulses under rice-wheat crop diversification. In: Pulses in new perspective: proceedings of the National Symposium on Crop Diversification and Natural Resource Management, 20-22 December 2003, Indian Institute of Pulse Research, Kanpur, India.