Rashtriya Krishi (English)

Lokesh Kumar Jain ¹, Hanwant Kumar ², Anirudh Choudhary ³, Hanuman Prasad Parewa ¹, Phool Chand Meena ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, Sumerpur, Pali (Rajasthan), IN
2 Agriculture University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), IN
3 College of Agriculture, Sumerpur, Pali (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

The agriculture aimed at meeting the needs of present generation without endangering the resource base of future generation. The change from a high input and chemically intensive agriculture to a sustainable form to control weeds relies on use of low or non-monetary inputs like selection of crops and their variety, balanced nutrition, crop geometry, tillage practices, crop rotation etc. The power for investment on costly and hazardous inputs like weedicides without considering threshold levels is increasing day by day in want of higher crop production. Weedicides are also applied from field preparation to harvesting and post harvesting caused a considerable improvement in but damaged drastically the resources like soil health, crop environment, microbiota etc. and threatened by developing resistance against them. Under such circumstances, crop rotation, a part of agronomical management changes micro climate in favour of crop. The use of less persistence and highly effective herbicides either shift the weed flora or cause resistance to herbicides and endangered some crop species and damaged bio-diversity.

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Phool Chand Meena ¹, Prem Chand Meena ², H. P. Parewa ¹, Anirudh Choudhary ¹, Hanwant Kumar ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Agriculture, Agriculture University, Jodhpur (Rajasthan), IN
2 National Academy of Agricultural Research Management, Hyderabad (Telangana), IN

Abstract

India ranks topmost in milk production with a total production of 127.9 MT milk (BAHS, 2013). Contribution to milk production by buffalo, cow and goat in 2010-11 was 51%, 45% and 4%, respectively. India reached to this stage in milk production because of several reasons including crossbreeding, artificial insemination, operation flood etc. However, in comparison to other milk producing countries of world, individual productivity of our dairy animal is very low. Average milk productivity of buffalo and indigenous cow in India is 4.58 and 2.2 kg/day, respectively. India became largest milk producing country due to the efforts of millions of small holder producers and several other policy matters. Therefore, in India dairying is still a part of rural life instead of industry.

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