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S. L. Patil ¹, P. K. Mishra ¹, N. Loganandhan ¹, M. N. Ramesha ¹, S. K. N. Math ¹

Affiliations
1 Central Soil and Water Conservation Research and Training Institute, Research Centre (ICAR), Bellary 583 104, IN

Abstract

Pulses play a major role in providing overall prosperity to the small and marginal farmers through nutritional security by meeting their dietary protein requirements and improving production base through conservation of natural resources. Inclusion of pulses in the cropping system as a crop rotation improves soil fertility and crop productivity of cereals and oil seeds. Chickpea is one of the important pulses cultivated in Vertisols during winter season. We examined chickpea cultivars for energy use efficiency, economics, physiological efficiency and water use efficiency (WUE) under different rainfall situations for their sustainable yield and overall profit, in Vertisols of semi-arid tropics of South India. Results revealed that low input energy and high grain and stover yields of cultivars result in higher total output energy and net benefit energy. Higher dry matter efficiency of 0.702 was observed with medium-duration cultivar, whereas WUE was higher in short-duration cultivar followed by medium-duration cultivar. We conclude that medium- duration cultivar and short-duration cultivar are more suitable for the SAT region in terms of greater energy benefits, higher income per unit area, physiological efficiency and water use efficiency. Thus short-duration cultivar could be cultivated during normal to above normal rainfall years and during normal to drought years in winter season on residual soil moisture in Vertisols medium-duration cultivar for higher energy efficiency and economics.

Keywords

Chickpea, Cultivars, Dry Matter, Economics, Energy, Water Use Efficiency.

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M. N. Ramesha ¹, M. Jhenkhar ¹, D. Holscher ¹, S. L. Patil ², H. C. Hombe Gowda ³

Affiliations
1 Georg-August University, Goettingen, DE
2 ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation Research Centre, Ballari 583 104, IN
3 ICAR-IISWC Research Centre, Sunabeda 763 002, IN

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Krushi Aranya Prothsaha Yojane (KAPY) is a special programme launched by the Government of Karnataka. In this programme, the Forest Department raises quality seedlings in forest nurseries and distributes seedlings to the farmers, public and NGOs at subsidized rates, and also pays incentives to the farmers to encourage them to grow native tree species on their farmlands. Incentives of Rs 10, 15 and 20 have been paid for each seedling that survived after the first, second and third year respectively. Evaluation of the seedlings would be done by the forest officers. In 2017, the incentive amount was increased to Rs 30, 30 and 40 for the first, second and third year respectively, for each surviving seedling at the end of each growing period.

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M. N. Ramesha ¹, S. L. Patil ², K. B. Sridhar ³

Affiliations
1 ICAR-IISWC Research Centre, Ballari 583 104, IN
2 ICAR-IIPR, Regional Research Centre, Dharwad 580 005, IN
3 ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad 500 059, IN

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