India has rich agricultural resource therefore, different crops are produced. However, farmers cultivating traditional crops are incapable to harvest even adequate food and grains. Such situation is not ideal and sustainable Crop production. New cropping patterns have been accepted by the farmers of ...
Those areas of the world where physical diversities are less, the cropping patterns are less diversified. For instance, in the rainfall scarce areas of Rajasthan (India), the farmers grow bajra (bulrush millet), while in the Brahmaputra valley of Assam rice is the dominant...
This paper is concerned with the cropping pattern in the northern part of the union territory of Delhi in India and the factors that have determined the changes observed since 1966. The paper compares the changes in cropping patterns with what the Von-Thunen theory would predict in a region of...
Optimization of cropping patterns in tank irrigation systems in Tamil Nadu, Indiadoi:10.1007/978-94-011-2842-1_25cropping systemfinancial returngroundwaterIndiairrigationMOTADoptimizationricerisksimulationTank irrigation systems of South India account for about one third of the total rice irrigated area....
This study attempts to give an appraisal of the use of remotely-sensed data for different rice cropping patterns specific to India. Using even 80 m spatial resolution data of LANDSAT MSS in the form of false colour composites (FCCs), the rice crop was identified with an accuracy of 90 to...
Evidence on cropping patterns in western India c. 1900 shows that cultivators had good technical reasons for not irrigating subsistence crops. In response to fiscal pressures and cultivators' choices, the government turned from a policy favouring subsistence crop irrigation to one favouring sugarcane. ...
Although common intercropping patterns include maize, groundnuts, cassava, and vegetables; maize and beans; cassava and sweetpotato; and cassava, millet, and maize, the overarching trend is to have one staple or base crop planted with as many other arable crops as possible in the field. Often,...
(Ambati et al., 2008). Ensuring sustainable production through changing cropping patterns require varieties to fit in these environments and accordingly short-statured, high-yielding and early-maturing varieties and hybrids in cereal and coarsecereals cropswere released for cultivation in the mid-1960...
2018). It is estimated that global food and nonfood demand may increase by at least 60% between 2010 and 2050, and South Asian countries with high population densities and changing dietary patterns will need to double their crop production (Ladha et al. 2016; Tilman et al. 2011). Since ...
Brazilian grain production increased more than fourfold from 1980 to 2016. The grain boom was achieved primarily by soybean–corn double cropping and cropland expansion—both show changing spatiotemporal patterns since the 1980s. Here, we quantified the contributions of these two strategies to corn ...