1Department of Agriculture, S. G. V. U., Jagatpura-302 025, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India.
2AICRP on IFS, S. D. Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar-385 506 (Gujarat), India.
3Clothing and Textile Chemistry, Mahatma Jyoti Rao Phoole University, Jaipur-302 019 (Rajasthan), India.
4Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Chomu, Jaipur-303 702 (Rajasthan), India.
Department of Agronomy, S. D. Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar-385 506 (Gujarat), India
*(e-mail: shaukatagro@gmail.com)
Online published on 9 October, 2017.
The field experiment was conducted on loamy sand soils of Agronomy Instructional Farm, C. P. College of Agriculture, S. D. Agricultural University, Sardarkrushinagar (Gujarat) during the years 2012–13 and 2013–14 to study the management of cropping systems for resource conservation. Cotton-summer pearl millet cropping system was found significantly superior by recording higher pearl millet equivalent yield, gross returns, net returns, BCR and economic efficiency, while production efficiency was found the highest under greengram-mustard-summer pearl millet cropping system. Residue incorporation secured top position by recording significantly the highest pearl millet equivalent yield, gross returns, net returns, BCR, production efficiency and economic efficiency. The application of 75% RDN through inorganic fertilizer+25% RDN through FYM recorded significantly the highest pearl millet equivalent yield, gross returns, net returns, production efficiency and economic efficiency. In the case of BCR, 100% RDN through inorganic fertilizer was found significantly superior.
Cropping system, FYM, pearl millet equivalent yield, production and economic efficiency, residue incorporation
