Energy efficiency, productivity and profitability of rice farming using Sesbania as green manure-cum-cover crop

Rautaray, S.K.; Pradhan, Sanatan; Mohanty, S.; Dubey, Rachana; Raychaudhuri, S.; Mohanty, Rajeeb K.; Mishra, A. K.; Ambast, S.K.

doi:10.1007/s10705-019-10034-z

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“…This in turn was due to harvested water in the run-off recycling pond. Use of Sesbania green manure and vermicompost reduced expenditure on plant nutrition and weeding (Rautaray et al, 2020) leading to a high net return.…”

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“…This resulted in lower straw and grain yield with OF as compared to CF. The early closing of yield gap between OF and CF for the wet season rice crop was due to rapid mineralization of nutrients under hot and humid climate, and moist soil conditions (Hazra et al, 2014; Rautaray et al, 2020).…”

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“…Use of legume crops after rice improves soil health and supply by 30-40 kg N ha À1 for the next crop (Rego and Burford, 1992). Growing of in-situ Sesbania green manure for rice supplies about 10-12 t of fresh biomass containing 45, 3 and 12 kg ha À1 of N, P and K, respectively (Rautaray et al, 2020).…”

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Sustainable agriwaste management at farm level through self-reliant farming system

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Annually 500 M t organic wastes are produced in India from the agriculture sector. Transportation of bulky organic manures for centralized collection, processing and distribution to farms is cost prohibitive. Hence, recycling of agricultural wastes using vermicompost technology at the farm level is a practical way of managing agriwaste for meeting the plant nutrient requirement. Our experience with a 1.584 ha farm for three years (2015–2016 to 2017–2018) revealed that 8.1 t vermicompost was produced in three batches from 24 t agriwastes produced within the farm area. The system productivity by recycling these farm generated agriwastes and run-off water was 18.05 t (≈11.4 t ha−1) rice equivalent yield which was higher by 2.6 times as compared to rice fallow (4.46 t ha−1). Also, the net return from this system (Indian rupees 70141 ha−1) was higher by 2.3 times, after considering the fixed cost towards construction of a water recycling pond. An increase in carbon stock in soil for the four years study period was 0.66 Mg ha−1 year−1 with the agriwaste recycling system under organic nutrition. For the inorganic fertilizer plot, the increase in carbon stock was 0.53 Mg ha−1 year−1. A decrease in bulk density from 1.56 to 1.46 Mg m−3, increase in water holding capacity from 0.43 to 0.52 cm3 cm−3 and increase in available P and K content in soil from 38.0 and 174.7 kg ha−1 to 45.8 and 186.5 kg ha−1, respectively, were noted. Thus, recycling of agricultural waste at the farm level is useful in improving soil health and crop productivity.

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“…At the same time, its production requires high energy inputs. Hence, research on the productivity of biomass production is required in terms of share in human energy production [15].…”

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Impact of drought stress on biochemical responses, energy, and water productivity on maize forage (Zea mays L.)

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Drought stress is the most important limiting factor in crop plants including maize (Zea mays L.), which is the third important world crop after wheat and rice. To examine the quantity and quality of forage as well as energy and water productivity of two maize varieties to drought stress, a field experiment was carried out as a split plot based on a completely randomized block design with three replications in Isfahan, Iran, during 2017 and 2018 growing seasons. The main and sub-plots were three irrigation regimes (100%, 80, and 60% full irrigation) and two maize varieties (704 and Maxima), respectively. Data analysis showed that drought stress harmed wet and dry forage yield and energy productivity, while its effect was positive on some forage quality such as ash, neutral detergent fiber (NDF), hemicellulose free cell wall (ADF), and lignin (ADL). Based on results, drought stress of 60% full irrigation resulted in reduced wet and dry forage maize yields. In addition, drought stress affected relationships among measured traits. According to increasing dried fodder and decreasing output energy under stress conditions, early mature variety Maxima is more proper to be used under drought stress. Besides, the Maxima variety was shown to be a suitable variety due to increasing dry matter and crude protein as well as decrease ADF and ADL than the 704 variety. Article Highlights We submit an original research article entitled Effect of water stress on forage yield and quality and water and energy productivity in Maize (Zea mays L.). In this paper, we indicated regarding to impacts of climate change phenomenon throughout the world on crop production, especially in arid regions such as Iran, choosing proper variety can be one of the best candidates to provide for forage. The results of present paper have shown that the drought stress had no effect on water productivity of two maize varieties. The superiority of some forage quality traits in drought stress compared to the control in maize means that in drought conditions, maize forage can be used and increase the profitability of livestock products.

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“…Ball et al (2015); Moghaddasi and Pour (2016); Elsoragaby et al (2019); Rautaray et al (2020). (MacDonald et al, 2012); (van Camp et al, 2013); (Rahmati et al, 2016); (Rezaei and Mohammadi, 2017); (Lezzaik and Milewski, 2018) 2. the consumptive water use in the energy sector, compared to withdrawal data (Davies et al, 2013); (Dodder, 2014); (Mekonnen et al, 2015); (Liao et al, 2016); (Pan et al, 2018); (Vanham et al, 2019) 3. the impacts of hydropower and other water resources development on aquatic ecosystems (Liermann et al, 2012); (Odiyo et al, 2012); (Elosegi and Sabater, 2013); (Yan et al, 2015); (Fan et al, 2015); (Hecht et al, 2019) 4. the full life-cycle assessments in terms of water and energy (Feng et al, 2014); (Al-Ansari et al, 2015); (Pacetti et al, 2015); (Mannan et al, 2018); (Masella and Galasso, 2020) 5. water productivity per nutritional content of food products (Nyathi et al, 2016); (Nyathi et al, 2018); (Nyathi et al, 2019); (Nouri et al, 2020) 6. energy productivity in agriculture (Ball et al, 2015); (Moghaddasi and Pour, 2016); (Elsoragaby et al, 2019); (Rautaray et al, 2020) B. Insufficient availability of: 1. the uniformly applicable 'water footprint' framework regarding water use efficiency for different forms of energy or food production (Okadera et al, 2015);…”

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Grasping the water, energy, and food security nexus in the local context : Case study: Karawang Regency, Indonesia

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Despite an abundance in natural and human resources, Indonesia has not been able to significantly improve the level of water, energy, and food (WEF) security. Challenges in achieving WEF security targets mostly relate to resource mismanagement, lack of coordination, authority imbalance among sectors, and overlapping roles and responsibility among levels of government. The immature process of the decentralization has made these challenges even more complex; it is not easy to unify the vision of local governments (i.e. 34 provinces, 416 regencies, 98 cities) with the Regional Head who is elected every 5 years and sometimes brings different goals and development approaches.The lack of information, awareness, coordination and a common framework to bridge the gaps between national and local governments, jeopardizes the attainment of WEF security targets which have been set in the national long-term planning (RPJPN) and mid-term planning (RPJMN). Unfortunately, this complex issue has not received the attention it deserves, from a scientific perspective nor from a practical implementation point of view such as through laws, policies and planning processes.

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Energy efficiency, productivity and profitability of rice farming using Sesbania as green manure-cum-cover crop

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Sustainable agriwaste management at farm level through self-reliant farming system

Sustainable agriwaste management at farm level through self-reliant farming system

Impact of drought stress on biochemical responses, energy, and water productivity on maize forage (Zea mays L.)

Grasping the water, energy, and food security nexus in the local context : Case study: Karawang Regency, Indonesia

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