Donald S. Gaydon, Balwinder Singh, Enli Wang, Perry Poulton et al.
Resource shortages, driven by climatic, institutional and social changes in many regions of Asia, combined with growing imperatives to increase food production whilst ensuring environmental sustainability, are driving research into modified agricultural practices. Well-tested cropping systems models...
Akbar Hossain, Milan Skalický, Marián Brestič, Sagar Maitra et al.
The trace element selenium (Se) is a crucial element for many living organisms, including soil microorganisms, plants and animals, including humans. Generally, in Nature Se is taken up in the living cells of microorganisms, plants, animals and humans in several inorganic forms such as selenate, sele...
Saiful Islam, Mahesh K. Gathala, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
In the Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) region of South Asia cropping systems are predominantly rice-based and comprise rice and non-rice crops (e.g. maize, wheat, lentil, mungbean, jute) in rotation. There are large gaps between potential crop yields and those achieved in farmers’ fields, primarily du...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
Traditional cropping practices in the Eastern Gangetic Plains, South Asia, are resource intensive, requiring large inputs of water, energy and human labor. They are also inefficient, with relatively low productivity for the inputs used although the climate, soil and water resources of the region ind...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
In the Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia current agronomic practices are energy-intensive, and this contributes to higher cropping system production costs and CO2-equivalent greenhouse gas emissions. Increasingly uncertain and scarce resources, together with an increasingly variable and changing...
Mahesh K. Gathala, Alison M. Laing, Thakur P. Tiwari, Jagadish Timsina et al.
The Eastern Gangetic Plains of South Asia is a region of high rural poverty and low agronomic productivity, with crops grown using traditional management practices which are labor-intensive and uneconomical. Poor agronomic productivity is largely caused by unintentional, inefficient management pract...
Mousumi Mondal, Milan Skalický, Sourav Garai, Akbar Hossain et al.
Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is adorned as the one of the important sources of vegetable oil, protein, vitamins and several minerals, which could mitigate the nutritional gap worldwide. However, peanut cultivation in winter suffers from low temperature stress and knowledge lacuna regarding the optim...
Abhas Kumar Sinha, Anup Ghosh, Tapamay Dhar, P. M. Bhattacharya et al.
Key soil parameters, organic matter, soil pH and plant nutrients determine the capacity of a soil to sustain plant and animal productivity. Conservation agriculture (CA) and crop diversification or intensification may change these soil parameters positively or negatively, which eventually affect lon...
Pijush K. Das, Biswajit Pramanick, Subhendu Bikash Goswami, Sagar Maitra et al.
The underground water and water storage reservoirs are rapidly depleting due to nominal recharging by the rainfalls making water a scarce resource for irrigation resulting in poor crop growth and production. Irrigation water application should focus on the proficient use of each drop of water. Water...
Bharati Upadhaya, Kaushal Kishor, Vipin Kumar, Navnit Kumar et al.
Mono-cropping in the farming system decline in farm profit, climate change, and food insecurity are some of the major concerns that lead to unsustainability in the agricultural production system in the Eastern Gangetic Plains. A study was conducted for three years from June 2019 to June 2022 at Dr. ...
Rajan Bhatt, Paramjit Singh, Omar M. Ali, Arafat Abdel Hamed Abdel Latef et al.
In semi-arid tropics, sugarcane yield and quality are affected by deficiencies in soil nutrients, including potassium and calcium. We examined the effects of two different potassium fertilizers, a traditional muriate of potash (MOP) and polyhalite (which contains potassium and calcium), on sugarcane...
Swaraj Kumar Dutta, Alison M. Laing, Sanjay Kumar, Mahesh K. Gathala et al.
In the Eastern Gangetic Plain of South Asia, cropping systems under conventional crop management are frequently unprofitable due to the inefficient use of resources, particularly irrigation water and energy. Across the Eastern Gangetic Plain, farmers generally produce a wet-season rice crop followed...
AKM Quamruzzaman, Ferdouse Islam, Limu Akter, Anjumanara Khatun et al.
It is well-known that eating highly nutritious foods has health benefits which may include the prevention of diabetes, heart disease, cancers and other diseases. We examined five yard-long bean cultivars commonly grown in Bangladesh to determine their quality and nutritional composition in terms of ...
Priya Lal Biswas, Ujjal Kumar Nath, Sharmistha Ghosal, Gayatri Goswami et al.
Bacterial blight (BB) is caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and is one of the most important diseases in rice. It results in significantly reduced productivity throughout all rice-growing regions of the world. Four BB resistance genes have been reported; however, introgression of a single gene ...
Mousumi Mondal, Milan Skalický, Sourav Garai, Akbar Hossain et al.
Peanuts (Arachis hypogaea L.) are the world’s fourth-most important source of edible oil and the third-most valuable source of high-quality vegetable protein; they also contain carbohydrates, fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals essential for good human nutrition. Peanuts area particularly valuable c...