Publication: Input Use Efficiency in Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems to Manage the Footprints for Food and Environmental Security
| dc.contributor.author | Bhatt, Rajan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Meena, Ram Swaroop | |
| dc.contributor.author | Hossain, Akbar | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-01-27T10:19:01Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-01-27T10:19:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Global population is escalating at a faster rate that could reach to 9 billion up to the 2050, and to feed such a higher population in a sustainable way from the limited resources of land and water is not an easy task. Popular conventional crop establishment techniques among the farmers are energy, water, labor, and capital intensive have higher carbon, water and energy footprints which further led to declined soil health, ground water levels, land and water productivities and higher micronutrient deficiencies. Adverse effects of the overall global warming and their influence on the agricultural production further complicated the situations of achieving food and environmental security in a sustainable manner. All result in reduced yields of the system as a whole. To improve their yields, farmers tend to add more resources, viz., water, fertilizers, and even, pesticides, which instead of helping this further deteriorated the production of higher volumes of greenhouse gases and more edible leaves, causing pollution in both soil and water bodies. Emphasis must be placed on the enhancement of the soil organic matter status to improve soil properties. Moreover, frequent escape of the greenhouse gases, viz., carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and nitrous oxide (N2O) must be checked for mitigating the adverse effects of the climate change to have sustainable environmental security and higher use efficiency of the applied inputs. There is also a need to put the problematic soils, viz., salt affected, wastelands, or waterlogged, sandy soils under cultivation by reclaiming them sustainably for having their contribution in the food security. Food security is a must for the global population but in a sustainable manner. Sustainable crop residues management can avoid the open burnings in fields, secure the quality of the environment, and minimize the complications of the global warming. Reducing food loss and wastage helps to reduce the targets of food production and exploitation of the natural resources. Farmers must be educated for reducing the water, energy, and C footprints by improving their use efficiencies (rather to enhance their dose) through different technologies in the most prevalent cropping sequence of the region, viz., minimum tillage, precision land leveling, tensiometer guided irrigations particularly in rice, un-puddled direct rice grains seeding, bed planting, etc. These technologies are also known as Resource Conservation Technologies (RCTs) that depend on soil textural class and agro-climatic conditions. Hence, to serve the purpose of improving the use efficiency of applied inputs, viz., water, fertilizers, pesticides and energy, these RCTs are recommended in the region so as to have global food and environmental security in a sustainable and climate smart way. � The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-5199-1_1 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-981165199-1; 978-981165198-4 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dl.bhu.ac.in/ir/handle/123456789/14980 | |
| dc.publisher | wiley | |
| dc.subject | Climate change | |
| dc.subject | Environmental security | |
| dc.subject | Food security | |
| dc.subject | Input use efficiency | |
| dc.subject | Resource conservation technologies | |
| dc.title | Input Use Efficiency in Rice-Wheat Cropping Systems to Manage the Footprints for Food and Environmental Security | |
| dc.type | Book chapter | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
| journal.title | Input Use Efficiency for Food and Environmental Security |