Sustainable Management Practices to Enhance Rainfed Soybean Productivity under Changing Climate

Abstract

Soybean being rainfed crop encounters various problems associated with climate change. Flood, poor distribution of rainfall, dry spell at critical stage during cropping season, pest and disease incidence, imbalance nutrient application and soil degradation resulted stagnation in country soybean productivity (<1.0 tones ha-1). Therefore, adaption of climate smart sustainable management practices could be viable options. The development of crop specific sustainable management practices under changing climate is continuous process. Hence, effort has made to describe some of the sustainable management (conservation agriculture, integrated crop management, organic farming and natural farming) practices in rainfed soybean to enhance productivity, restore soil fertility and farm profitability under changing climate.