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High-Value Crops’ Imbedded Intensive Cropping Systems for Enhanced Productivity, Resource-Use-Efficiency, Energetics and Soil-Health in Indo-Gangetic Plains

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An investigation was undertaken at New Delhi, India during 2011–2013 to assess the agro-economic potentiality of four promising high-value crops’ imbedded diversified intensive cropping systems (DICS) in order to diversify the cereal–cereal based rotations and owning maximum profitability in Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGPR) production systems. Cowpea–potato–mungbean (C–P–Mb) system proved as best viable option in realizing highest system-productivity in terms of mungbean-equivalent-yield (MEY), water-productivity and energy-relationships besides enhancing soil physico-chemical and microbiological properties; followed by Kharif onion–wheat–mungbean (O–W–Mb) system. C–P–Mb system also observed significantly highest net-returns, production and monetary-efficiencies. Application of 75 % recommended NPK (RDF) + vermicompost (VC) @ 5 t ha−1 registered highest system-productivity (MEY) and production-efficiency followed by 100 % RDF, respectively. Application of 75 % RDF + VC @ 5 t ha−1 also registered higher available N, P, soil–organic–carbon and DTPA-extractable micro-nutrients, besides enhanced microbial–biomass–carbon, respiratory and dehydrogenase activities. Overall, C–P–Mb and O–W–Mb systems supplied with 75 % RDF + VC @ 5 t ha−1 may prove as viable alternative DICSs for enhanced system-productivity, profitability, water-productivity, energetics, and soil-health under irrigated IGPR.

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Authors are greatly thankful to Director, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi and Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR), New Delhi, India for technical support and financial assistance to carry out above experimentation.

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    Vijay Pooniya & Anil K. Choudhary

  2. Division of Microbiology, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, 110012, India

    K. Swarnalakshmi

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Pooniya, V., Choudhary, A.K. & Swarnalakshmi, K. High-Value Crops’ Imbedded Intensive Cropping Systems for Enhanced Productivity, Resource-Use-Efficiency, Energetics and Soil-Health in Indo-Gangetic Plains. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., India, Sect. B Biol. Sci. 87, 1073–1090 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40011-015-0679-6

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