Weather variability trends in Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh, India: influence on cropping systems and adaptation strategies

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tapendra Kumar Srivastava ◽  
Pushpa Singh ◽  
Ram Ratan Verma
Keyword(s):  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Weather Variability ◽  
Gangetic Plains

scholarly journals Factors Influencing the Choice of Climate Change Adaptation Strategies by Households: A Case of Mpolonjeni Area Development Programme (ADP) in Swaziland

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Phindile Shongwe ◽  
Micah B. Masuku ◽  
Absalom M. Manyatsi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Household Head ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
Adaptation Strategies ◽  
Extension Services ◽  
Access To Credit ◽  
Factors Influencing

The increased involvement of food relief agencies nearly on an annual basis is a clear indication that agricultural production continues to decline as a result of climate change. In order to mitigate the negative effect of climate change, households engage on adaptation strategies. The extent to which these impacts are felt depends mostly on the level of adaptation in response to climate change. The main objectives of the study were to identify the adaptation strategies employed by households and to analyse factors influencing the choice of adaptation strategies by households using personal interviews. The study used data from a random sample of 350 households. Descriptive statistics and multinomial logistic regression model were used to analyse the data. The results showed that adaptation strategies employed were; drought tolerant varieties, switching crops, irrigation, crop rotation, mulching, minimum tillage, early planting, late planting and intercropping. The results showed that the choice of adaptation strategies by households was significantly (p <0.05) influenced by; age of household head, occupation of household head, being a member of a social group, land category, access to credit, access to extension services and training, high incidences of crop pest and disease, high input prices, high food prices, perceptions of households towards climate change. Moreover, the analysis showed that perceptions of households towards climate change significantly influence all adaptation strategies. However, sex and education level of the household head were insignificant in influencing household choice when adapting to climate change. It is recommended that there is need to educate households about the negative impact of climate change on cropping systems. The study also recommends that agriculture extension services should be strengthened, agriculture financial institutions should accommodate subsistence farmers on communal land and rural micro-finance institutions should be developed, in order to facilitate farmers to choose effective adaptation strategies. 

Relay sowing of lentil (Lens culinaris subsp. culinaris) to intensify rice-based cropping

2015 ◽  
Vol 154 (5) ◽  
pp. 850-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. I. MALIK ◽  
M. O. ALI ◽  
M. S. ZAMAN ◽  
K. FLOWER ◽  
M. M. RAHMAN ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lens Culinaris ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Early Flowering ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Cropping Pattern ◽  
Gangetic Plain ◽  
Irrigated Rice ◽  
Gangetic Plains ◽  
Sowing Dates ◽  
Sole Cropping

SUMMARYThe cropping systems of the Eastern Gangetic Plains of Bangladesh, India and Nepal are based on rice. There is a scope to intensify such systems through diversification with lentil, the most popular food legume. Two strategies were evaluated to fit lentil into the short fallow between successive monsoonal (i.e., T. aman) and pre-monsoonal (aus) or irrigated rice (boro) crop. These were early-flowering sole-cropped lentil and relay-sown lentil into rice. Firstly, 18 early-flowering lentil lines at three contrasting sowing dates were tested over two seasons on a research station at Ishurdi in Bangladesh. Secondly, relay sowing was evaluated at the same location with six early-flowering lines and two control cultivars in two seasons. It was also assessed on ten farms in Western Bangladesh, comparing relay with sole cropping over 3 years. Flowering in the early-flowering lentil lines was consistently 9–17 days earlier, than the control cultivars, but they did not achieve an economic yield (<1·0 t/ha). Relay sowing with an existing cultivar produced an economic yield of lentil, which was comparable or higher than sole-cropped lentil in all situations. The relay-sown lentil matured in sufficient time to allow the land to be prepared for the succeeding rain-fed rice crop. It was concluded that the substitution of relay-sown lentil for fallow in the monsoonal rice–fallow–rain-fed rice cropping pattern is a useful option to intensify and diversify cropping in the Eastern Gangetic Plain.

Cropping systems influence microbial diversity, soil quality and crop yields in Indo-Gangetic plains of India

2020 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 126152
Author(s):  
S.R. Singh ◽  
Poonam Yadav ◽  
Dinesh Singh ◽  
M.K. Tripathi ◽  
Lal Bahadur ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Diversity ◽  
Soil Quality ◽  
Crop Yields ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Gangetic Plains

Organic amendment influences soil quality in farmers’ field under rice-based cropping systems in Indo-gangetic plains of India

2016 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nirmalendu Basak ◽  
Ashim Datta ◽  
Sunanda Biswas ◽  
Tarik Mitran ◽  
Biswapati Mandal
Keyword(s):  
Soil Quality ◽  
Organic Amendment ◽  
Cropping Systems ◽  
Gangetic Plains

Radiocarbon dating and sedimentation rates in the Holocene alluvial sediments of the northern Bihar plains, India

1996 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajiv Sinha ◽  
Peter F. Friend ◽  
V. R. Switsur
Keyword(s):  
Sediment Accumulation ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Foreland Basin ◽  
Sedimentation Rates ◽  
Near Surface ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Gangetic Plains ◽  
River Terraces ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Two Samples

AbstractSeven radiocarbon dates of carbonate shells and charcoal from the upper two metres of sediment in the Indo-Gangetic plains of northern Bihar, eastern India, can be divided into three groups, with the following approximate ages: 2400±45 a BP (two samples), 1100±45 a BP (four samples) and 765±45 a BP (one sample). This evidence for at least three episodes of sedimentation in the last 2400 a contrasts with evidence of greater ages from similarly near-surface sediments in the middle Gangetic plains of Uttar Pradesh, further west. In these more westerly areas, greater ages and well-developed river terraces point to much more restricted late Holocene sedimentation. Rates of net sediment accumulation calculated using our Bihar ages, spanning a period of the order of 103–104 a, are similar to those calculated for periods of the order of 105–106 a for the Himalayan foreland basin. This suggests that, in the whole basin case, short-period rates higher than the Bihar rates have been compensated by longer than Bihar periods of non-deposition or erosion.

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