Need of Conservation Agriculture in India: Sustainability

Pradhan, P.; Verma, Ajay; Kumar, M Santhosh

doi:10.20546/ijcmas.2018.701.033

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“…As this practice was adopted by all the adopters, thus ranked first with mean score of 3. This statement was in line with the findings of Hengxin et al [5] and Pradhan et al [6] who found that conversion from conventional to zero tillage, reduced erosion, conserved soil moisture and avoided surface sealing because of crop residue cover on the surface and higher aggregate stability under zero tillage conditions. Further it was found that, 77.50 per cent of the farmers had complete adoption of integrated weed management and none of the respondents had nil adoption for this practice, thus ranking second with mean score of 2.77.…”

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confidence: 91%

“…As this technology is just a decade older technology in the state, thus the farmers are not certain about the results and are also not well verse with the technology, thus farmers are afraid in adopting CA technology completely. All these above findings were supported by the work of Bisangwa [9], Theodor et al [17], Albertina [14], Aga Khan report [16], DWR report [8] and Pradhan et al [6].…”

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confidence: 68%

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Conservation Agriculture Technology: Extent of Adoption & Constraints Faced by Farmers of Madhya Pradesh, India

Bilaiya

Khare

Sahu³

et al. 2022

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Increase in human population and vigorously changing climate leading to declining natural resource are the emerging challenges for the world's agricultural systems, which need to produce more food for the increasing population. Therefore, change in our conventional agriculture practice is required by adapting practices or technology helping in coping up with the changing climate and sustainably using the resources for future productivity gains and Conservation Agriculture (CA) Technology is one of the best alternative. CA is a resource conservation practice which improves biodiversity and natural biological processes above and below the ground surface and includes a trifecta of no-till or minimum-till or zero-till farming, permanent soil cover and crop rotations which have existed for nearly a century, but its uptake has generally been slow and uneven. Present study was conducted at state Madhya Pradesh of India using ex-post facto research design to find out the extent of adoption along with the constraints faced by the farmer in adoption of this decade older technology. The study revealed that despite the proven benefits of CA, its adoption rate is very slow in the region. Further, majority of the farmers had moderate knowledge of CA but were afraid to adopt it completely. The major reason witnessed were complexity of CA in comparison to conventional agriculture, lack of awareness of this technology among farmers and high cost and unavailability of happy seeder.

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Section: Extent Of Adoption Of Ca Technologysupporting

confidence: 91%

Section: Extent Of Adoption Of Ca Technologysupporting

confidence: 68%

Conservation Agriculture Technology: Extent of Adoption & Constraints Faced by Farmers of Madhya Pradesh, India

Bilaiya

Khare

Sahu³

et al. 2022

AJAEES

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“…In India, Erenstein and Pandey (2006) and Piyush et al (2018) conducted experiments to measure benefits of CA in Indo-Gangetic plains and found a few ground reality benefits harvested by farmers under CA was illustrated in Fig 3 . Crops grown by adopting CA is climate resilient, ensures food security and soil nutrition besides reducing energy consumption as presently farmers are facing problem of labour shortage and drudgery of farming these are all can be reduced by conservation tillage practice.…”

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“…Indian farmers (70-75 percent) have only small and holdings and pay little attention to long term management of natural resources and can rarely afford input such as quality of seeds, fertilizer, heavy machines and herbicides for chemical weed management (Piyush et al, 2018).…”

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Principles, Positives and Limitations of Conservation Agriculture: A Review

Swaminathan

Sobhana

Kannan

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Lessons learnt from past experiences push for an alternate way of crop production. One such is Conservation agriculture (CA), which can be seen as a new way forward for conserving resources and enhancing productivity to achieve goals of sustainable agriculture. In recent past, progressive and significant efforts are made to develop, refine and disseminate conservation-based agricultural technologies across globe. Tremendous efforts on zero-till practices and surface management with crop residues for crop production were reviewed. This work was done at Department of Agronomy, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Madurai -625 104, Tamil Nadu, India. A systematic cum integrative review of research work done in different parts of World, particularly in India was comprehended. Literature search was done during 2020. About 200 review and research papers were screened from various databases like TNAU e-library, ARCC journals, Google Scholar, Research gate and Scopus and 84 papers were used. This review article comprehensively documents major principles of CA along with extent and spread of CA across the globe. It also highlights CA in Indian perspective. Various merits and demerits were also discussed with literature support. This review paper discusses rising concerns of conventional agriculture systems with regard to its adoption, positives and negatives of conservation agriculture in promoting conservation agriculture in tropics.

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“…CA at present has increased to 8 percent of world's arable land. CA is a practice in which soil disturbance is made negligible by adopting the concept of zero tillage or minimum tillage, soil mulch, rotation of crop, avoiding burning of paddy straw in the field (Pradhan et al, 2017) [23] . Main aim of CA is to maintain the yield and profit to attain a balance between agriculture, environment and economics.…”

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Conservation agriculture for combating climate change and sustainable agriculture: A review

Yogesh¹,

Sharma²,

Kukreja³

2020

Int. J. Chem. Stud.

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Conservation agriculture (CA) is a practice in which soil is kept nearly undisturbed by adopting the techniques like zero tillage or minimum tillage, soil mulch, crop rotation, in-situ crop residue management etc. CA is in practice from the last two decades in India, though there are some constraints in its adoption. In Indo-Gangetic plains, wheat-rice based cropping system is very common and generally more tillage operations are applied to the soil. But, now the concept of CA is gaining popularity and no-till or minimum tillage practices are being adopted at a significant level. The main aim of CA is to decrease the input and increase the output in terms of crop yield as well as reduction in the production cost. CA technology is also environmental friendly as it promotes the efficient and precise use of resources in a sustainable manner. There are various constraints which limit the adoption of CA technology in India like poor availability of modern implements, continuously decreasing land holding size, unavailability of finance and lack of awareness in small and marginal farmers etc. So, from the sustainability point of view, there is an urgent need to make strategies to promote CA through the development of new policies beneficial for the farmers. This article reviews the various aspects of conservation agriculture in the Indian context.

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Need of Conservation Agriculture in India: Sustainability

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Conservation Agriculture Technology: Extent of Adoption & Constraints Faced by Farmers of Madhya Pradesh, India

Conservation Agriculture Technology: Extent of Adoption & Constraints Faced by Farmers of Madhya Pradesh, India

Principles, Positives and Limitations of Conservation Agriculture: A Review

Conservation agriculture for combating climate change and sustainable agriculture: A review

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