Resource Conservation Technologies in Rice–Wheat Cropping system

Abstract

Rice-wheat cropping system is the pre-dominant cropping system in India as both rice and wheat are main staple food for the people of the country. The continued adoption of exhaustive rice-wheat cropping system has resulted in declined factor productivity and thus poses a serious threat to sustainable food production. Concerns of stagnant productivity, increasing production costs, declining resource quality, receding water table and increasing environmental problems are the major drivers to search for alternative technologies that can address all these problems. This article focuses on various resource saving yet efficient technologies that can be adopted in rice-wheat system for improving and sustaining higher yields.