Here is a list of few important cropping and farming systems widely used in agriculture. 1. Shifting Cultivation/Land Rotation/Jhumming: i. Forest land is cleared and cultivated. Due to cultivation of the same crop generally rice on the same cleared forest land year after year; soil productivity is lost. And the crop is shifted to other slashed and burnt land. ii. [...]
Agronomy of rainfed cropping systems includes all practices controlled by the farmer that contribute to productivity of crops. Many management decisions are influenced by climate, inherent soil properties and socio-economic constraints. Each decision on crop and cultivar, land preparation, fertilisers and other agronomic practices will have impact on other factors as well. Intercropping is the major system in rainfed agriculture, [...]
In this article we will discuss about the agronomy of irrigated cropping systems. Tillage: Establishing crops after cereals is somewhat difficult without adequate land preparation due to large quantities of residues left behind by the cereals. The problem is much more complicated after lowland rice crop. Thorough land preparation requires long time which limits multiple cropping systems. No till or [...]