Rapidly depleting groundwater in western Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) is a major threat to food security in South Asia. Conventional tillage-based and flood irrigated puddled transplanted rice (PTR) is a major contributor to faster depleting aquifers. Urgent actions are therefore warranted to develop alternate productive, profitable, water and N-use...

In water scarce regions of South Asia, diversification of rice with maize is being advocated towards sustainability of cereal-based cropping systems. Adoption of innovative agronomic management practices, i.e., conservation agriculture (CA) and sub-surface drip irrigation (SSDI) are considered as key strategies for much needed interventions to address the...

A field experiment was conducted in maize under medium-term conservation agriculture (CA) based maizewheat system at BISA-CIMMYT, Ladhowal, Punjab during kharif 2019 to assess the effect of CA+ practices (CA with sub-surface drip irrigation) with variable N doses on maize. The CA+ treatments were residue retained (WR) permanent bed (PB) with sub-surface...

The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) implemented storage experiments in 2019 at the experiment station of El Batán Texcoco, the State of Mexico, Mexico (2282 m above sea level), to evaluate the impact of storage technologies on seed of maize landraces. Experimented were conducted on four Mexican landraces during three and six...

Within the framework of SATYN, two types of nurseries are produced: SATYN series with odd numbers are lines for drought-stressed areas, and SATYN series with even numbers are lines for heat stress conditions. These nurseries have been phenotyped in the major wheat-growing mega environments through the International Wheat Improvement Network (IWIN) and the...

Combines presence data of Striga hermonthica and Striga asiatica on different crops from four different sources, obtained from online publications or authors.

Pests are the key yield limiting factors in agricultural production systems around the world. Their population dynamics are shown to vary with the modifications in agro-ecosystem, cropping system and management practices. Plentiful information is available on assessment of their seasonal population fluctuations mainly due to abiotic factors in...

Intensive tillage operations, indiscriminate use of irrigation water, chemical fertilizers, and pesticides and crop biomass burning have made the conventional rice–wheat (RW) system highly energyintensive and inefficient. In the recent past, portfolios of climate-smart agricultural practices (CSAP) have been promoted as a potential alternative to improve...

Climate-smart agriculture (CSA)-based management practices are getting popular across South-Asia as an alternative to the conventional system for particular weed suppression, resources conservation and environmental quality. An 8-year study (2012–2013 to 2019–2020) was conducted to understand the shift in weed density and diversity under different...

Globally crop production is impaired by soil salinity and sodicity and to maintain the sustainability of the production systems under such degraded lands, conservation agriculture (CA) may be an alternative in arid and semiarid regions. An experiment was initiated with different agri-food systems with CA-based practices to understand the reclamation...

Indo Gangetic plains of India. Hence, we evaluated long-term (10 years) effect of conservation agriculture (CA) practices on soil quality improvement under six different cropping scenarios (Sc), i.e. Sc1-represented by transplanted puddled rice (TPR) followed by conventional tilled broadcasted wheat (CT-wheat) with residue removal, Sc2-TPR rice followed...

Conventional rice–wheat (RW) rotation in the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP) of South Asia is tillage, water, energy, and capital intensive. Coupled with these, crop residue burning contributes significantly to greenhouse gas (GHG) emission and environmental pollution. So, to evaluate the GHG mitigation potential of various climate-smart agricultural practices...

Soil enzyme activities are important indicators of changes in management practices in crop production systems. Measurements of different soil quality parameters are essential for assessing the impact of soil and crop management practices. Keeping this in view, an experiment was conducted to evaluate the enzyme activities namely, dehydrogenase (DHA),...

Soil sampling with 1x1 km grid in the agricultural area of the Muna Municipality at at 0 to 30 cm depth.

Soil sampling with 1x1 km grid in the agricultural area of the Escobedo y San Juan del Rio Municipalitys at at 0 to 30 cm depth.

GBS genotypic data for a panel of 265 spring wheat lines from JAAS-China, CIMMYT and other countries.

Soil sampling with 1x1 km grid in the agricultural area of the Amealco Municipality at at 0 to 30 cm depth.

Soil sampling with 1x1 km grid in the agricultural area of the Cadereyta Municipality at at 0 to 30 cm depth.

Soil sampling with 1x1 km grid in the agricultural area of the Tlachichuca Municipality at at 0 to 30 cm depth.

Soil sampling with 1x1 km grid in the agricultural area of the Region Mixteca at at 0 to 30 cm depth.