Enhancing crop water productivity by genetic improvements or agronomic manipulations and reducing evapotranspiration losses from soil plant surface is the need of hour. Selection breeding traits which lead to increase in like early maturing stress tolerant cultivars with deep thick root system, hairy leaves partitioning assimilates towards grains etc. can help increasing productivity. Different...

There is a growing concern about the sustainability of agriculture due to indiscriminate use chemical fertilizers in several parts world. In India, Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) region where externalities excessive for cereal production manifest groundwater pollution, air pollution emissions, and soil degradation. this context, we study adoption organic determining factors. We data collected from 4...

Rice growing under anaerobic conditions followed by spring wheat an aerobic environment differentially impact the net ecosystem exchange (NEE) of carbon dioxide (CO2) in rice-wheat systems north-western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). This is first estimation NEE a rice-spring sequence via eddy covariance technique Plains, which was partitioned into gross primary productivity (GPP) and respiration ...

India is the second largest producer of potato in the world. The Indo-Gangeticplains (IGP) is the main potato growing region accounting for almost 85% of the1.8 Mha under the crop in India where it is grown as an irrigated crop during thewinter season. Since IGP is in sub-tropical plains, duration of the thermally suitablewindow is the main determinant limiting yields. Hence the impact of clima...

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