THE country has often faced food crises despite having world's largest irrigation system, abundant land and enormous human resources. The recent wheat crises had not been eliminated from the memory of ...

NAGPUR: Multiple cropping (growing many crops simultaneously), and intercropping (growing different crops between rows of a single crop) can completely do away with the problem of pest attacks, and ...

Multiple cropping is not a new subject, although it is not popular in the plantation areas. It is the practice of growing two or more crops in the same space during a single growing season. The ...

Cropping systems is one of the most important components in the crop production system, which is intensified to feed a growing global population. Previous studies focused on the high yield with less ...

The farm household responsibility system (FHRS) was adopted in Chinese rural areas during the economic reform in the early 1980s. Since then, many farm households have increased cropping intensity by ...

The sugarcane farmers of Uttar Pradesh’s Pilibhit adopted the multiple-cropping pattern to write off losses incurred by sugarcane production. In accordance with the per hectare yield of sugarcane of ...