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Long-term conservation agriculture and best nutrient management improves productivity and profitability coupled with soil properties of a maize–chickpea rotation

V. Pooniya; R. Zhiipao; N. Biswakarma; S. L. Jat; Dinesh Kumar; C. M. Parihar; K. Swarnalakshmi; A. Lama; A. Verma; Debasish Roy; K. Das; K. Majumdar; T. Satyanarayana; R. Jat; P. C. Ghasal; H. Ram; R. Jat; A. Nath

Scientific Reports · 2021

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Summary

Conservation agriculture (CA)-based practices have been promoted and recouped, as they hold the potential to enhance farm profits besides a consistent improvement in soil properties. A 7 years' field experiment consisting of three crop establishment practices viz., zero-till flatbed (ZTFB), permanent beds (PNB), conventional system (CT) along with the three-nutrient management; nutrient expert-based application (NE), recommended fertilization (RDF), and farmers’ fertilizer practice (FFP), was carried out from 2013 to 2020. The CA-based practices (ZTFB/PNB) produced 13.9–17.6% greater maize grain-equivalent yield (MGEY) compared to the CT, while NE and RDF had 10.7–20% greater MGEY than the FFP. PNB and ZTFB gave 28.8% and 24% additional net returns than CT, while NE and RDF had 22.8% and 1

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1038/s41598-021-89737-9
Catalogue ID
NRmo9rin9c-0mg
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