Rice-wheat production is an essential component of cropping systems in the Indus-Ganga Plains (IGP) which play a pivotal role food security south Asia. These crops are being cultivated on area about 13.5 M ha South In rice-wheat system, major reason for lower wheat grain yield use unwise tillage practices during seedbed preparation, cultivation late maturing rice varieties, water shortage, labo...

There is a difference of 45% to 55% between the attainable yield and potential rice. This gap may be due insufficient inputs poor mechanization status. In this regard, agricultural utmost importance obtain satisfactory yield. study was conducted determine level, power per unit area, probit regression, challenges faced by farmers understand status in rice cultivation. For this, 98 households Pyu...

A goal in sustainable agriculture is to use fossil energy more efficiently crop production. This 60-year-old experiment on a silt loam chernozem investigated effects of fertilization (unfertilized control, mineral fertilizer (NPK) and farmyard manure (FYM)) rotation (continuous winter rye (CR), (RR), spring barley (SB) diesel fuel consumption, total input (made both direct indirect inputs), yie...

Background: Land configuration decides the effectiveness of crop management practices and major land practice includes raised bed preparation, ridges furrows, broad furrows etc. The farmers’ sowing in flatbed without proper configuration, leads to poor growth development crops. A large portion residues is burnt by farmers fields clear left-over straw stubbles. Conservation agriculture involving...

In agrotechnical practice, it was found that between qualitative indices, which express the sowing precision achieved by planters determined in laboratory, and those under operating conditions, there are certain differences, sometimes quite significant. The decrease value of quality indices manifested increase number mistakes, either double planting holes (with at least two seeds), or missing h...

Medium resolution satellite data, such as Sentinel-2 of the Copernicus programme, offer great new opportunities for agricultural sector, and provide insights on soil surface characteristics their management. Soil monitoring requires a high-quality dataset uncovered plastic covered soil. We developed methodology to identify pixels in parcels during seedbed preparation considered impacts clouds s...