Issues and strategies for promotion of pulses in untapped rice-fallow in India: A review
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https://doi.org/10.59797/jfl.v33i3.582Keywords:
Abiotic stress, Biotic stress, Constraints, Cropping system, Resource conservation, Rice fallowAbstract
Out of 43.95 m ha under rice in India, about 11.7 m ha area remains fallow after the rice harvest. A number of abiotic, biotic and socio-economic factors limit cultivation of crops after rice in these areas. Factors like low soil moisture content after rice harvest followed by fast decline in water table with advancement of crop season and mid-and terminal-drought at flowering and pod filling stages are the major bottlenecks for growing of crops in rice fallow. Pulses like lentil, chickpea, urdbean, mungbean and lathyrus are the candidate crops for rice fallow due to their better survival under surface seeding and rainfed situation. The inherited soil physical and biological constraints of rice fallow affect pulses seed germination, seedling emergence and crop establishment due to disruption of soil structure, poor aeration and mechanical impedance in the seed zone. To exploit these areas under rice fallow with pulses, location specific resource conservation practices may be fallowed. The present paper deals with the constraints and strategies related to rice fallowpulse system in different agro ecological regions of the country.
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