scholarly journals Knowledge Level of Farmers and Constraints Faced in Adoption of Crop Rotation System

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Gautam Tanay Sahu ◽  
Simarjit Kaur ◽  
Gurvinder Singh
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Soil Health ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Cropping System ◽  
Age Group ◽  
Knowledge Level ◽  
Rotation System ◽  
Alternative Crops ◽  
High Knowledge ◽  
Crop Rotation System

Crop rotation is one of the major agricultural practices in sustainable farming. A proper crop rotation can increase nutrient uptake and improve soil health along with the decrease in pest and weed infection. In Punjab, usually wheat rice cropping system is followed by the farmers. The present study was conducted in five selected villages of Mohali district (Punjab). A sample of 40 farmers was randomly selected from each selected village on the basis of probability proportional to number of farmers in each land holding category. In this way, total 200 hundred farmers were selected for the present study. From this study it was found that 71.50 per cent of the farmers were belonged to middle age group and an equal percentage (i.e. 43.50%) of the farmers had matric level and higher secondary & above education. From total 44.50 per cent of the farmers had more than 5 acres of land holding whereas 37.50 per cent had 2.6 to 5 acres. Study also revealed that 46 per cent of the farmers had low knowledge level about crop rotation whereas 15.50 per cent and 38.50 per cent had moderate and high knowledge level. From different ten aspects, maximum farmers had good knowledge about the effect of crop rotation on annual income and fertilizer input while they had lowest knowledge about recommended crops for crop rotation. Lack of remunerative MSP policy & proper marketing system for alternative crops and high labour cost was the major constraints reported by the farmers.

FERTILIZATION SYSTEM AS A WAY OF SOIL FERTILITY AND STABILIZATION OF FIELD CROP ROTATION PRODUCTIVENESS

1970 ◽  
pp. 38-41
Author(s):  
V. T. Sinegovskaya ◽  
E. T. Naumchenko
Keyword(s):  
Soil Fertility ◽  
Crop Rotation ◽  
C:N Ratio ◽  
Mineral Fertilizer ◽  
Organic Fertilizers ◽  
Nitrogen And Phosphorus ◽  
Rotation System ◽  
Mobile Phosphorus ◽  
Crop Rotation System ◽  
Fertilizer System

The article presents the results of comparative evaluation of the efficiency of the long-term application of mineral and organic fertilizers in the crop rotation system. It was found that the application of the mineral fertilizer system increased the value of hydrolytic acidity of the soil from 4,30 to 5,29 mg-eq per 100 g of soil, the indicator of metabolic acidity decreased from 5,2 to 4,9 pH units. By the end of the 11th rotation for both fertilizer systems, the content of mobile phosphorus increased by more than 4 times relative to the initial value, its mobility indicator – by 2,2-3,2 times compared with the control. The use of the organo-mineral system was accompanied by an increase in the content of humus by 0,35 % and a decrease in the C:N ratio from 11,2 to 8,9. The increased productivity of wheat was revealed when applying nitrogen and nitrogen-phosphorus fertilizers against the background of prolonged use of the mineral and organo-mineral fertilizer system. The change in wheat productivity by 56 % depended on the content of mineral nitrogen, mobile phosphorus, humus in the topsoil, and on the phosphate ion mobility. Soybean productivity depended on soil fertility indicators only by 24 %: the relationship between soybean productivity and the mineral forms of nitrogen and phosphorus is weak and direct, between productivity and P2O5 mobility - weak and inverse, with humus - moderate and direct.

The fate of urea nitrogen applied to a vegetable crop rotation system

2015 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hong Ding ◽  
Shiqing Li ◽  
Yushu Zhang ◽  
Xiaoxia Hu ◽  
Xiangzhou Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Vegetable Crop ◽  
Urea Nitrogen ◽  
Rotation System ◽  
Crop Rotation System

scholarly journals Nematode parasite eggs in pasture soils and pigs on organic farms in Sweden

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 289-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristina Lindgren ◽  
Stefan Gunnarsson ◽  
Johan Höglund ◽  
Cecilia Lindahl ◽  
Allan Roepstorff
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Pig Manure ◽  
Organic Farms ◽  
Rotation System ◽  
Suckling Piglets ◽  
Pasture Contamination ◽  
Crop Rotation System ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Minor Extent

AbstractThe EU regulation for organic pig production requires outdoor access to promote the animal welfare. This may increase the risk of infection of the common pig parasites, Ascaris suum and Trichuris suis, because their eggs can survive for many years in the soil. The egg contamination of these parasites in outdoor areas with different managements and the faecal egg output from the pigs was investigated on 11 Swedish organic pig farms in 2008. We found eggs of A. suum and, to a minor extent, T. suis in the soil from outdoor areas, which had previously been used for pig rearing and/or for spreading of pig manure. Piglets and their dams were turned out on pastures included in a crop rotation, and these areas had a mean of 2500 A. suum and 40 T. suis eggs per kilogram soil. When the pigs were 12-week-old, the faecal egg counts (FECs) of A. suum were positively correlated with the egg concentration in pasture soils before pig turnout. The areas used by dry sows had a mean of 11,700 A. suum and 220 T. suis eggs per kilogram soil. The highest egg concentrations in the soil were found in areas, frequently used by pigs in the most recent years. To minimise pasture contamination with parasite eggs, it is advised to have a crop rotation system and to inactivate parasite eggs in pig manure before spreading it. Parasite control needs further development to protect suckling piglets from infections due to environmental parasite egg contamination.

Production and profitability of crop rotation systems in southern Brazil

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (6) ◽  
pp. 2541-2541
Author(s):  
Lutécia Beatriz dos Santos Canalli ◽  
◽  
Gustavo Vaz da Costa ◽  
Bruno Volsi ◽  
André Luís Mendes Leocádio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Crop Rotation ◽  
Operating Cost ◽  
Conservation Agriculture ◽  
Economic Feasibility ◽  
Production Costs ◽  
System Control ◽  
Economic Profit ◽  
Rotation System ◽  
Crop Rotation System ◽  
Different Levels

Crop rotation is one of the pillars of conservation agriculture. This practice has offered a series of advantages in terms of improving soil physical, chemical, and biological conditions. These advantages result in yield increases for all economic crops involved in the rotation systems and may also reduce production costs. In this context, the aim of this study was to compare the profitability of crop rotation systems with different levels of crop diversification. The experimental design was randomized blocks, with five treatments and four replications. The treatments included one less diversified crop rotation system (control) with soybean and wheat and four more diversified crop rotation systems (involving three or more species), including soybean, wheat, black oats, maize, canola, barley, blue lupine, white oats, beans, radish, triticale, rye, hairy vetch, and sorghum, under no-tillage conducted during a three-year cycle. Analyses were conducted considering productivity, operating cost, and economic profit. The highest accumulated gross yields were obtained in the more diversified crop rotation systems. The results show that the more diversified crop rotation systems were more profitable. When the opportunity cost was included, the most diversified crop rotations presented greater economic feasibility. The less diversified crop rotation system presented a negative economic profit. The crop rotation systems including beans presented the highest economic profit.

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