Land Use, Productivity, and Profitability of Traditional Rice–Wheat System Could be Improved by Conservation Agriculture

Power tiller-driven plow tillage and crop residue exclusionary Traditional Agriculture practices are expensive, labor demanding, soil damaging, eco-unfriendly. Over the last several years, pursuits of production through sustaining productive capacity soils, environmental quality, have raised concern to adopt Conservation worldwide. Single combined with herbicides retention principles being developed. Between 2016–2017 2017–2018, a two-year on-farm experiment was done in Bangladesh. We practiced two establishment methods; Agriculture: Plow followed by three manual weeding without preservation previous Pre-plant herbicide + single pre-emergence post-emergence herbicide; under rice–wheat rice–wheat–mungbean systems. Data reveal that more cost-effective technique than rice, wheat, mungbean increasing ratio benefit costs 24.3%, 35.7% 48.8%, respectively, savings operations (66.3%, 58.1%, 57.6%, respectively), expenditures (59.2%, 24.5%, 42.2%, manpower requirements (25.1%, 27.2%, 31.3%, respectively). This has resulted an increase 32% productivity systems yield advantage 16%, 31% 37% wheat mungbean, respectively. When added, system’s rose 43%. The system had highest land utilization efficiency (99.45%), (92.05%), which expanded scope include additional crops into system. Moreover, 59.7% greater Agriculture, where having (53.00 kg–1 ha–1 day–1), (45.57 day–1).