ISSN : 0975-3710
EISSN : 0975-9107
S. GUPTA1, V.K. GUPTA2*, D. GUPTA3
1Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 492012, Chhattisgarh, India
2Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 492012, Chhattisgarh, India
3Scientific Officer, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, India
* Corresponding Author : drvijaykumargupta@gmail.com
Received : 06-02-2020 Accepted : 21-02-2020 Published : 28-02-2020
Volume : 12 Issue : 4 Pages : 9587 - 9589
Int J Agr Sci 12.4 (2020):9587-9589
Keywords : Climate change, Alternative cropping system, Conservative agriculture
Academic Editor : Dr Renu Agrawal, Dr Abhijit K Barate, Dr Jasmine Kaur
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, 492012, Chhattisgarh, India.
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed
The strong trends in climate change and the increasing scale of potential climate change impacts the urgency to implement alternative cropping systems and adopting conservative agriculture is the need of the era. As the food grain production increased with time, the numbers of elements are becoming deficient in soils. Moreover, use of agricultural and forest ecosystem are responsible for disturbing the ecological balance and carbon cycle. The greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4 and N2O) being comparatively active can influence the global climate. Cropping system is an important component of farming system. It represents yearly sequence and spatial arrangement of crops and fallows in an area. In the present study an overview of predominant and efficient alternative cropping systems in different agro climatic zones of India are studied.
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