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Sustainability, Productivity, Profitability and Soil Health With Conservation Agriculture-Based Sustainable Intensification of Oilseed Brassica Production System
R.L. Choudhary
ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research, Bharatpur, Rajasthan (India)
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Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices getting space world-wide to answer many emerging challenges like; declining factor productivity, deteriorating soil health, water scarcity, climate change, and farm profitability and sustainability. Oilseed brassica (Indian mustard, Brassica juncea L.), a winter oilseed grown under rainfed agro-ecosystem vulnerable to low yields, high production cost, degrading soil and water quality, and climatic vagaries. The present study was undertaken on CA-based sustainable intensification of Indian mustard for enhancing inputs efficiencies, farm profitability and sustainability. Permanent beds with residue retention (PB+R) improved mustard equivalent yield (11.4%) and system grain yield (10.6%) compared to conventional tillage without residue (CT-R). Maize-mustard (Mz-M) increased system grain yield (142.9%) as well as mustard equivalent yield (60.7%) compared to fallow-mustard (F-M). Mz-M system under PB+R increased sustainable yield index (376.5%), production efficiency (177.2%), economic efficiency (94%) and irrigation water productivity (66%) compared to F-M under CT-R. PB+R increased soil organic carbon (SOC) stock at 0-15 cm (17.7%) and 15-30 cm (29.5%) soil depth compared to CT-R. Intensification of F-M system with green gram–mustard (GG-M) improved SOC at 0-15 cm (27.4%) and 15-30 cm (20.5%) compared to F-M. CA-based cluster bean-mustard/GG-M system increased N productivity, whereas, P and K productivity improved with Mz-M system compared to F-M under CT-R. Thus, CA-based Mz-M system should be out-scaled in the traditional rainfed fallow-mustard system to improve the farm production and income on holistic basis to make the country self-sufficient in edible oils.
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Conservation Agriculture (CA), Oilseed brassica (Indian mustard, Brassica juncea L.), Maize-mustard (Mz-M)
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Dr NK Jain
commented on 06 January, 2021
Very good article cleary emphasizing the importance of CA based practices for enhancing productivity in Indian Mustard
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Dr D R Palsaniya
commented on 06 January, 2021
Nice information on CA in Brassica based production systems.
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RL Choudhary
ORCiDreplied on 07 January, 2021
Thank you sir for appreciation of the work.
PL Saran
commented on 07 January, 2021
The MS described valuable information on CA of the crop
R.L. Choudhary
commented on 07 January, 2021
Thank you sir for appreciation of the work.
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Sustainability, Productivity, Profitability and Soil Health With Conservation Agriculture-Based Sustainable Intensification of Oilseed Brassica Production System
R.L. Choudhary
ICAR-Directorate of Rapeseed-Mustard Research, Bharatpur, Rajasthan (India)
Corresponding Author
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Conservation Agriculture (CA) practices getting space world-wide to answer many emerging challenges like; declining factor productivity, deteriorating soil health, water scarcity, climate change, and farm profitability and sustainability. Oilseed brassica (Indian mustard, Brassica juncea L.), a winter oilseed grown under rainfed agro-ecosystem vulnerable to low yields, high production cost, degrading soil and water quality, and climatic vagaries. The present study was undertaken on CA-based sustainable intensification of Indian mustard for enhancing inputs efficiencies, farm profitability and sustainability. Permanent beds with residue retention (PB+R) improved mustard equivalent yield (11.4%) and system grain yield (10.6%) compared to conventional tillage without residue (CT-R). Maize-mustard (Mz-M) increased system grain yield (142.9%) as well as mustard equivalent yield (60.7%) compared to fallow-mustard (F-M). Mz-M system under PB+R increased sustainable yield index (376.5%), production efficiency (177.2%), economic efficiency (94%) and irrigation water productivity (66%) compared to F-M under CT-R. PB+R increased soil organic carbon (SOC) stock at 0-15 cm (17.7%) and 15-30 cm (29.5%) soil depth compared to CT-R. Intensification of F-M system with green gram–mustard (GG-M) improved SOC at 0-15 cm (27.4%) and 15-30 cm (20.5%) compared to F-M. CA-based cluster bean-mustard/GG-M system increased N productivity, whereas, P and K productivity improved with Mz-M system compared to F-M under CT-R. Thus, CA-based Mz-M system should be out-scaled in the traditional rainfed fallow-mustard system to improve the farm production and income on holistic basis to make the country self-sufficient in edible oils.
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Due to technical limitations, full-text HTML conversion of this manuscript could not be completed. However, the manuscript can be downloaded and accessed as a PDF.
Dr NK Jain
commented on 06 January, 2021
Very good article cleary emphasizing the importance of CA based practices for enhancing productivity in Indian Mustard
View 1 reply
RL Choudhary
ORCiDreplied on 07 January, 2021
Thank you sir for appreciation of the work.
Dr D R Palsaniya
commented on 06 January, 2021
Nice information on CA in Brassica based production systems.
View 1 reply
RL Choudhary
ORCiDreplied on 07 January, 2021
Thank you sir for appreciation of the work.
PL Saran
commented on 07 January, 2021
The MS described valuable information on CA of the crop
R.L. Choudhary
commented on 07 January, 2021
Thank you sir for appreciation of the work.
RL Choudhary
ORCiDreplied on 07 January, 2021
Thank you sir for appreciation of the work.