A field experiment was conducted at the Division of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi during 1983‐84 and 1984‐85 to study the effect of lentil residues on the yield and response of succeeding rice to nitrogen. Lentil residues benefitted the succeeding rice and gave longer and heavier panicles, more grains per panicle, higher 1000‐grain weight and higher grain and straw yield of rice as compared to fallow. Rice responded well to applied nitrogen both in the absence and presence of lentil residues. The effect of lentil root residues and root residues plus incorporation of lentil straw was equivalent to 11 and 33 kg N ha−1 when 60 kg N ha−1 was applied to rice; the corresponding values being 54 and 60 kg N ha−1 when 120 kg N ha−1 was applied to rice.

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A field experiment conducted at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi brought out that summer maize green fodder yield was 31.8 t/ha to 34.1 t/ha, while that of cowpea fodder was only 15.5 to 16 t/ ha. Maize fodder and crude protein yield and NPK uptake was more after a winter legume (lentil) than after a winter cereal (wheat).

The present report gives an account of the results of research carried out on litter production, accumulation and nutrient return through rainfall, stem flow, throughfall and interception to soil litter fall, under Casuarina-Black Gram Agroforestry Models (age 4 years, density 650 trees/ha). It was found that of the total rainfall (497.9 mm) 1.2% was recorded as stem flow and 80% as throughfall while the interception accounted for 19 %. It is found that on an average annual basis, of the total uptake of various nutrients was retained in the non-photosynthetic biomass and the rest returned to soil. These results show that among the nutrients, maximum annual retention was accounted for potassium while, the minimum for nitrogen. This paper deals the nutrient accumulation in standing crop, nutrient concentration and return, rainfall interception, nutrient concentration in rain wash, nutrient return through rain wash and Nutrient retained, returned and uptake (kg/ha/yr) in Casuarina under Agroforestry System in detail.