Intensification of groundwater irrigation is central to goals improving food security and reducing chronic poverty faced by millions rural households across the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains (EIGP) Nepal parts India. At present, levels use access in EIGP lag far behind other areas South Asia despite abundant available resources. A key reason for prevailing constraints dependence on diesel pumpse...

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Crop growth simulation models provide a means to quantify the effects of climate, soil, and management on crop growth and biogeochemical processes in soil. The Denitrification and Decomposition (DNDC) model was evaluated for its ability to simulate N dynamics and balance in the rice (Oryza sativa L.)–wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) cropping systems in the Indo-Gangetic Plains with various N and wa...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the characteristics of winter fog in terms of its trend and spatial-temporal variability over Indo-Gangetic plains. The study reveals that during last four and half decades (1971-2015), an alarming increasing trend in fog frequency has been observed during the winter months of December and January over the study area. The frequency of fog has increased by 118....

The Indo-Aryan language family currently occupies a significant region of the Indian subcontinent, its member languages being spoken in the bulk of North India, as well as in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives. The historical depth of the textual record and the geographical breadth of the Indo-Aryan linguistic area, the diversity of its languages (226 in all), and its many...