Restoration of agroecosystems with conservation agriculture for food security to achieve sustainable development goals

A Kumawat, D Yadav, P Srivastava… - Land Degradation & …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Currently, agroecosystems sustainability is mainly challenged by unsustainable agricultural
practices that lead to land degradation and amplified climate change. About 25% of the …

[PDF][PDF] Conservation agriculture impacts on productivity, resource-use efficiency and environmental sustainability: A holistic review

TK Das, S Ghosh, A Das, S Sen, D Datta… - Indian Journal of …, 2021 - researchgate.net
Conservation Agriculture (CA) with 3 interrelated principles of minimum soil disturbance,
permanent soil cover with crop residue mulch and diversified crop rotations offers a plethora …

Designing energy-efficient, economically sustainable and environmentally safe crop** system for the rainfed maize–fallow land of the Eastern Himalayas

S Babu, KP Mohapatra, A Das, GS Yadav… - Science of The Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Achieving a circular economic model in agriculture and meeting the food requirement of the
growing population is a global challenge. The task is much more daunting in the Eastern …

Energy budgeting and carbon footprint of contrasting tillage and residue management scenarios in rice-wheat crop** system

S Ghosh, TK Das, KS Rana, DR Biswas, DK Das… - Soil and Tillage …, 2022 - Elsevier
Puddled transplanted rice followed by conventional till wheat, the most predominant
crop** system in South Asia is unsustainable, highly energy intensive and leads to …

Energy auditing and carbon footprint under long-term conservation agriculture-based intensive maize systems with diverse inorganic nitrogen management options

SL Jat, CM Parihar, AK Singh, B Kumar… - Science of the Total …, 2019 - Elsevier
A greater energy grant in diesel-fed machinery driven farming substantiate the higher GHGs
emission along with improper input (fertilizer, pesticide and irrigation) use and intensive soil …

Designing energy cum carbon-efficient environmentally clean production system for achieving green economy in agriculture

SS Rathore, S Babu, K Shekhawat, R Singh… - Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
The conventional agricultural production systems are facing multiple challenges of yield
plateauing, low farm profitability, energy intensiveness, unemployment, and environmental …

Performance of portfolios of climate smart agriculture practices in a rice-wheat system of western Indo-Gangetic plains

SK Kakraliya, HS Jat, I Singh, TB Sapkota… - Agricultural Water …, 2018 - Elsevier
Several resource use efficient technologies and practices have been developed and
deployed to address the challenges related to natural resource degradation and climatic …

Conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification of cereal systems leads to energy conservation, higher productivity and farm profitability

HS Jat, KM Choudhary, DP Nandal, AK Yadav… - Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract In the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia, the quadruple challenges of deteriorating
soil quality, declining groundwater, energy shortages, and diminishing farm profitability …

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

CM Parihar, BR Meena, HS Nayak, K Patra, DR Sena… - Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
The conventionally managed cereal-based crop** systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains
(IGP) of South Asia are energy intensive that overwhelm the farm profits and the …

Differential response from nitrogen sources with and without residue management under conservation agriculture on crop yields, water-use and economics in maize …

SL Jat, CM Parihar, AK Singh, HS Nayak, BR Meena… - Field Crops …, 2019 - Elsevier
Under the present scenario of resource degradation, shortage of water & labour, growing
production cost, falling water tables as well as farm profitability and climate-change; the …