Least limiting water range for two conservation agriculture cropping systems in India

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 150, Issue , 2015, Pages 43-56

  Mishra, Amit Kumar ^a   Aggarwal, Pramila ^a   Bhattacharyya, Ranjan ^a   Das, T K ^a   Sharma, A R ^a   Singh, Ravender ^a  

^a INDIAN AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Bed planting; Cotton wheat and rice wheat rotations; Residue retention; Soil penetration resistance; Zero tillage

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; AGRICULTURE; COTTON; CROPS; PRODUCTIVITY;

BED PLANTING; RESIDUE RETENTION; RICE-WHEAT ROTATIONS; SOIL PENETRATION RESISTANCE; ZERO TILLAGE;

SOILS;

BULK DENSITY; CONSERVATION TILLAGE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP RESIDUE; CROP ROTATION; CROP YIELD; PENETRATION; SOIL CARBON; SOIL DEPTH; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL WATER; ZERO TILLAGE;

DELHI; GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; NEW DELHI;

GOSSYPIUM; GOSSYPIUM HIRSUTUM; ORYZA SATIVA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 84921889668     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2015.01.003     Document Type: Article

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