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Rice-wheat system : Problem analysis and strategic entry points

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: New Delhi (India) : RWC, CIMMYT, 2003.Description: 8 pagesISBN:
  • 81-88572-00-4
Subject(s): In: Addressing resource conservation issues in rice-wheat systems of South Asia : a resource book p. 16-23Summary: Though most rice-wheat cropped area is under irrigation, soil and crop management undergoes drastic changes from flooded rice to wheat in both favorable and unfavorable regions of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). Crops with contrasting edaphic needs continuously practiced by numerous farmers, suffer from increasing pest pressure and yield decline in some areas in the South Asia, questioning the sustainability of the system (Tran and Marathe, 1994). Some sustainability dimensions of the rice-wheat system ecology are illustrated in Figure 1. Here, we discuss some crop management practices that have a bearing on ricewheat system productivity.
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Though most rice-wheat cropped area is under irrigation, soil and crop management undergoes drastic changes from flooded rice to wheat in both favorable and unfavorable regions of the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). Crops with contrasting edaphic needs continuously practiced by numerous farmers, suffer from increasing pest pressure and yield decline in some areas in the South Asia, questioning the sustainability of the system (Tran and Marathe, 1994). Some sustainability dimensions of the rice-wheat system ecology are illustrated in Figure 1. Here, we discuss some crop management practices that have a bearing on ricewheat system productivity.

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