The reported study was undertaken to determine which soil health indicators showed measurable signs of improvement, during the first year process introducing a Conservation Agriculture (CA) cropping system in rainfed areas Madhya Pradesh, India. Soil aggregate stability, soil-atmosphere CO2 fluxes, water infiltration, moisture, potentially mineralisable nitrogen, organic content and bulk densit...

Background: Cotton with coevolving pests has been grown in India more than 5000 years. Hybrid cotton was introduced in the 1970s with increases in fertilizer and in insecticide use against pink bollworm that caused outbreaks of bollworm. Hybrid Bt cotton, introduced in 2002 to control bollworm and other lepidopteran pests, is grown on more than 90 % of the cotton area. Despite initial declines,...

Rainfed agriculture covers 80 percent of the World’s cropland and produces about 60 food grains. In India, 55 gross sown area accounts 40 production. Tamil Nadu, nearly 48 per cent is under rainfed cultivation which highly vulnerable to climate change therefore it requires appropriate adaptation strategies. The present study covering 180 sample households examine farmers perception on various r...

In order to identify drought tolerant chickpea genotypes, an experiment was conducted in the west of Iran, during 2007-2009 cropping seasons. Several selection indices were used to illustrate genotypic differences in response to drought stress. The results of combined analysis of variance showed that year, genotype, stress conditions and their interaction effects were highly significant. Correl...