Biswajit Pramanick

Dr. Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University · Department of Agronomy

Introduction: Soil organic matter (SOM) plays a vital role in enhancing soil characteristics and promoting sustainable crop production. The active and passive components of SOM tend to be more effective indicators of soil changes than total SOM content. Methods: This study aimed to examine the impact of integrated nutrient management (INM) on the a...

Introduction Sugarcane is a long-duration and nutrient-exhaustive crop. To improve nutrient use efficiency, the 4R nutrient stewardship approach comprises applying nutrients at the right time and place with the right method and at the right proportion. Improper nutrient management in such a nutrient-exhaustive crop will result in various nutrient l...

Aim To find out the productivity and soil C and N sequestration of diverse intensive rice-based cropping systems under the appropriate nutrient management with different crop residue recycling Methods Field experiment was conducted in split-plot design with five cropping systems (CS) in main plot viz., rice- rice (RR), rice-wheat-jute (RWJ), rice-...

Soil degradation refers to the decline in the productive capacity of the land in a region. Various factors responsible for soil degradation, viz., soil erosion, waterlogging, acidification, salinization, flooding, anthropogenic activities, and other environmental extremes, adversely restrict soil health in the long run. Regeneration or enhancing ve...

The maintenance of sustainability and quantification of soil health in the rice–wheat system in the Himalayan tarai region is of utmost importance, and a long-term study can properly demonstrate what needs to be done to achieve this. The current study was conducted after the completion of a 29-year crop cycle in the rice–wheat system in 2015 at Pant...

Low productivity, depletion of soil fertility, and inefficient energy use are the major challenges of fragile Jhum (shifting cultivation: 280 M ha worldwide) agro‐ecosystems in north eastern Himalaya. Farmers' participatory field trials were conducted in sloping lands of Meghalaya, India over 3 years to identify suitable agronomic management practi...

Magnesium deficiency is a pervasive and recurrent factor that significantly restricts crop production, primarily attributable to the low levels of exchangeable magnesium (ex-Mg) present in acidic soil conditions. This deficiency exerts a pronounced negative influence on the sustainability and progress of agricultural development. Hence the current...

Exploration of suitable rice establishment coupled with weed management for better productivity and profitability for the farmers of coastal ecology is very important. Concerning this, a field experiment was conducted at during the Kharif season of 2016 and 2017 to study the growth, yield, and economics in rice under different crop establishment me...

Modern and industrialized agriculture enhanced farm output during the last few decades, but it became possible at the cost of agricultural sustainability. Industrialized agriculture focussed only on the increase in crop productivity and the technologies involved were supply-driven, where enough synthetic chemicals were applied and natural resources...

Microbes are considered one of the most important living organisms in agriculture, and changing climatic scenarios influence microbial diversity highly impacting overall agriculture. Soil microbial diversity is highly altered with changes in soil moisture, types of vegetation, soil reaction, soil organic matter, etc. Climate change results in incre...

Abiotic stresses pose severe negative impact on crop development and yield. Therefore, it is important to find out improved sustainable approaches of crop production under abiotic stress conditions in the modern era of climate change. Nevertheless, plant have the complex ways of responding to abiotic stresses regulated by genetic and molecular mech...

The present agriculture is in a huge pressure due to continuous increase in human population and adverse effects of climate change on farming. During the post Green Revolutuion eras, input supply driven technologies resulted in declining of natural resources and yield plateauing. Under the alarming situation, it is meaningful to pplant for adoption...

The detection of water deficit conditions in different soils of Prakasam district, Andhra Pradesh, India was assessed in consecutive two seasons of 2017–18 to 2019–20 cropping seasons using combined indicators developed from Standard Precipitation Index (SPI) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). Historical rainfall data during the stu...

Accelerating land-use change (LUC) in the Nilgiri Hill Region (NHR) has caused its land to mortify. Although this deterioration has been documented, the destruction of buried gem soil has not been reported. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the impact of LUC on soil-carbon dynamics in the six major ecosystems in the NHR: croplands (CLs)...

Polyhalite popularly known as POLY4 is a multi-nutrient fertiliser containing K, S, Mg, Ca, and micronutrients. POLY4 has a low carbon footprint, is certified for organic agriculture, and has the potential to improve crop productivity and quality attributes Indian mustard which often faces challenges due to imbalanced nutrition supplied in the curr...

With the advancement of science, better monitoring of soil and water quality has become possible. Many contaminants have been reported in the recent past that influence the quality of soil and water negatively. However, the consideration of these pollutants or contaminants is still in the initial stage and needs to be explored in detail for a bette...

Waterlogging stress in wheat caused severe damage to the crop as it cannot withstand under waterlogged conditions. This stress ceases root and stem growth in wheat plants because reduction in plant height, decrease in spike-bearing tillers, and reduction in grain yield have been observed. Waterlogged stress resulted in average decreases of 39%–44%...

Environmental stresses such as drought, high salinity, and low temperature can adversely modulate the responses of field crops by altering the morphological, physiological, and biochemical processes in plants. It is estimated that about 50% of global crop productivity is limited due to various kinds of abiotic stresses. However, there are two ways...

Curcumin, the yellow principle of the Indian Turmeric, ‘Haldi’ has recently attracted renewed interest in the field of experimental medicine with pleiotropic activity. This review has emphasized three pharmaceutical studies of interest: the pharmacokinetics, pharmacology, and pharmacodynamics of curcumin. In this review, we attempted to review the...

The Green revolution era has been the golden period for boosting food production specifically in South-Asia, but the signs of fatigue in the late 1980s with a sharp decline in factor productivity, stagnation in crop yields with dwindling and marginal farm incomes pose a serious threat to food security, agricultural sustainability, soil and environm...

Rising population and shrinking resource base require sustainable agricultural approach to fulfil the requirement of food-feed-fibre in the coming future. Achieving higher productivity from a shrinking resource base becomes even more difficult under the threat of a changing climate. As different crops respond differently to changing climate, hence...

The brown-top millet has huge untapped potential for drylands in terms of assuring food, nutrition, and livelihood security to smallholders. As a drought-tolerant and climate-smart crop, it provides enough scope as an adaptation option to combat ill effects of global warming and climate change. The crop is resistant to various biotic and abiotic st...

Intensive tillage coupled with imbalanced nutrient management in maize-wheat systems in low-carbon calcareous soils often results in poor productivity vis-à-vis degradation in soil health. Conservation tillage viz. permanent bed planting (PB) and zero tillage (ZT)/ direct seeding with residue retention coupled with precision nutrient management mig...

Sole application of organic manure to fulfil the crop nutrition sometimes looks beyond practical as the availability of the organic manure is a concern. Combined application of manures and biofertilizers can alleviate this problem reducing the application-rate of manures. Present study was conducted for three years (2017-2020) to evaluate the effec...

Remote sensing is a precision technology with origins in the defense and aerospace sectors used to acquire information about objects without direct contact. Remote sensing offers an efficient and reliable means of collecting the information required, in order to map and acreage and also the structure information on the health of cropping system. Th...

Purpose Sweet corn under organic farming is becoming popular in the tropical region of India owing to having its higher economic values. However, suitable nutrient management under organic farming systems for this crop is yet to get explored. In this context, a field study was conducted during 2019 and 2020 to investigate the influence of nitrogen...

Millets are coarse cereals belonging to the family Poaceae, which is cultivated since the ancient period of civilization. Among different millets, small or minor millets are treated as neglected crops due to their low-yield potential compared to major millets (sorghum and pearl millet) and fine cereals (rice, wheat and maize). In spite of their ver...

A field experiment was carried out during kharif season of 2020 at research farm of Dr Rajendra Prasad Central Agricultural University (RPCAU), Pusa, Samastipur, Bihar to find out the effect of planting methods, mung intercropping and nitrogen management on system productivity, water and nitrogen use efficiency of kharif maize. The experiment...

The growth and development of plants are affected by the adverse effect of environmental stresses including drought, salinity, high temperature, and toxic metal accumulation. Under environmental stresses, cell oxidative damage of plants generally occurs as a consequence of the overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS). While tolerant plants c...

Considering nutrient delivery and micronutrient use efficiency problems, mesoporous nanosilica (mNs) and reduced graphene oxide (rGO)-based iron and zinc nanocomposites were formulated. Prepared nanocomposites were characterized for FTIR spectroscopy, XRD, FE-SEM, HR-TEM, and AAS to examine surface functional groups, morphology, and structural comp...

The study was conducted to assess the long-term effects of predominant land uses on physicochemical properties, nutrient status and their interactions in soils of south-western Punjab representing the semi-arid soils of India. From each site, soil samples of three predominant land use viz. croplands, horticultural lands and uncultivated lands were...

Weed management has become the most important and inevitable aspect of crop management for achieving a higher rice yield. Nowadays, chemical herbicide application has become a popular practice for managing weeds in different rice cultures. However, herbicide application can have qualitative and quantitative impacts on soil microorganisms and soil e...

Flax cultivation is becoming popular day by day owing to having higher profitability of its cultivation in subtropical humid Himalayan tarai regions. However, the growing technology is yet to properly get quantified focusing the environmental sustainability. Concerning these a filed study was carried out during two consecutive flax-growing seasons...

Finger millet is considered a neglected crop in Bihar in spite of having huge potentiality to boost the farmer's income. The growth and yield under calcareous soil are very low for this crop. Therefore, suitable nutrient management practice is required to boost the growth and yield of the crop. Considering this, a field experiment was conducted dur...

Soil health management is a prime concern to ensure agricultural sustainability. Dwindling soil fertility as well as declining soil health is one of the great challenges of the present time to feed the world population. Injudicious use of chemical fertilizers may negatively affect soil health. Further, chemical fertilizer production is associated w...

Subtropical flax crop often faces an acute problem of lodging owing to having medium to severe winds coupled with occasional rains during its maturity time. To address this problem an experiment was conducted with three different seed rates and six different nutrient managements for two consecutive years during 2019–20 and 2020–21 at Pantnagar. Fro...

Evaluating the all-encompassing idea of soil quality requires an enormous set-up of estimations of soil physical, chemical, and biological properties. The fast and appropriate evaluation of soil quality (SQ) is expected to keep up soil wellbeing. Appraisal of soil quality is currently turning into a standard work for crop production and management...

The abiotic stresses such as unfavorable temperature, drought, flood, salinity, and heavy metal stress are considered as major factors causing a huge impression on crop growth and productivity. The abiotic stresses can reduce as much as 50% of benefits for some important crops in the world through altering the physiological, morphological, biochemi...

Sewage and sludge constitute liquid and solid fractions of the city sewerage system. The raw sewage usually consists of water carrying various solids partly in solution and partly in suspension. Sewage is a rich source of plant nutrients and in addition, contains suspended solids in the form of solid organic matter. Sewage has been used in agricult...

Sewage sludge is an unavoidable byproduct of the wastewater treatment course. Rising population, and growing urbanization contributes to a sizeable quantity of sewage sludge production. Disposal of such a huge amount of waste requires environmentally safe and economically viable options. Though the applications of sludge to the agricultural field c...

Mid infrared spectroscopy is an alternative tool for conventional lab analysis

Millets are coarse cereals with a heritage of consumption since early human civilizations from the Neolithic age. Millets exhibit diversity in grain size, structure and threshing characteristics. India is the largest producer of millets in the world. India, Nigeria and China together account for 55% of global millet production. Millet contains all...

Agriculture has been facing frequent challenges since the inception of its practice by human beings. Ever-changing climate coupled with decreasing resource use-efficiencies and new-emerging biotic as well as abiotic stresses are posing enormous challenges in present-day agriculture. Combating all of these and making agriculture sustainable, agronom...

Major abiotic stresses such as heat, drought, salinity, heavy metal, light, pesticide, and cold are considered the great threat for the food and environmental security of the increasing population. During abiotic stresses, re-active oxygen species (ROS) is produced in the plants' cell that leads to inhabit physio-biochemical process of affected pla...

Labile soil organic matter pools (LSOMp) are believed to be the most sensitive indicator of soil quality when it is changed rapidly with varied management practices. In sub-tropical climates, the turnover period of labile pools is quicker than in temperate climates. Organic amendments are of importance in improve the LSOMp for a temperate climate a...

The underground water and water storage reservoirs are rapidly depleting due to nominal recharging by the rainfalls making water a scarce resource for irrigation resulting in poor crop growth and production. Irrigation water application should focus on the proficient use of each drop of water. Water productivity (WP) in agriculture can be improved...

Significance of rain fed agriculture is increasing day by day, approximately eighty percent of the world’s agricultural land is rain fed, nearly sixty percent of global food production is comes from these rain fed area. It is out of discussion that irrigation is playing a vital role in stable food production year after year, but most countries of w...

A huge quantity of dye and heavy metal contaminated wastewater is generated from the textile industries every year all over the world. Additionally, water retting of flax fibre in subtropical humid climate also produces bulk amount of wastewater. Extraction of flax fibre from stem produces a large quantity of flax processing waste mainly composed o...

Appropriate irrigation scheduling, along with proper nutrient management practice for direct seeded rice (DSR), are very much essential to attain higher water use efficiency. Huge amounts of municipal waste are been produced every year and these wastes are left untreated and have caused many environmental hazards. However, these wastes can be conve...

A field investigation on direct seeded rice (DSR) was carried out in the two consecutive rice growing seasons of 2017 and 2018 at Pantnagar, Uttarakhand, India for the development and validation of soil test crop response (STCR) to fertilizer and for assessing the performance of STCR-treatments as compared to the general recommended dose (GRD) in t...

Crop diversity through residue incorporation is the most important method for sustaining soil health. A field study was conducted over five consecutive years (2012–2017) to see the impact of residue incorporations in Inceptisol of eastern India. The main plot treatments had five cropping systems (CS), namely, fallow rice rice (FRR), jute rice wheat (J...

Soil-centric approaches mainly focus on management of soil for the improvement of soil organic carbon (SOC) which plays a major role in sustaining the soil fertility vis-a-vis productivity. This kind of approach is the need of the hour particularly in the tropics and sub-tropics where the soil having very low amount of soil organic carbon (SOC) eve...

A growing worldwide population, urbanization and industrialization are expanding the pace of transformation of arable land into no-man’s land. Providing food to an ever-expanding populace is perhaps the greatest test that agriculturalists and plant researchers are now facing. Ecological anxieties make this circumstance much graver. In spite of the...

Rice–wheat cropping system (RWCS) is considered as the furthermost vital system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South-Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Nepal. Recently, the deficiency of micronutrients like zinc (Zn) has emerged as one of the prime limitations for the sustainability issues of this RWCS in Zn deficient calcareous soils...

Maize (Zea mays L.) is the third most important cereal after rice and wheat. As a C4 plant in the family Poaceae, maize can be grown under a wide range of agroecological conditions. Earlier evidence showed that as a result of wide intraspecific genetic variation, it is moderately sensitive to saline stress. Soil salinity is a serious threat worldwi...

A massive suite of dimensions demonstrating the biological properties of soils is required to significantly quantify the holistic view of soil healthconditions. The value of measuring the full suite of soil conditions with conventional methods will be too costly. We reviewed the skill of mid-infrared reflectance spectroscopy(MIRS) to predict numero...

Calcareous soils are highly deficient in boron (B) due to having high levels of free CaCO3 and low organic matter. This has become one of the most important deficient micronutrients in Indian soil after zinc (Zn). For various rice (Oryza sativa L.)-based cropping systems, B fertilization is essential for increasing crop productivity and the biofort...

Citation: Laik, R.; Singh, S.K.; Pramanick, B.; Kumari, V.; Nath, D.; Dessoky, E.S.; Attia, A.O.; Hassan, M.M.; Hossain, A. Improved Method of Boron Fertilization in Rice (Oryza sativa L.)-Mustard (Brassica juncea L.) Cropping System in Upland Calcareous Soils. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5037. https://doi.

Background Calcareous soils are highly deficient in boron (B) which has become one of the most important deficient micronutrients in Indian soil after zinc (Zn). For various rice-based cropping systems, B-fertilization is essential for increasing crop productivity and the biofortification of the crop, thus suitable soil application protocol for B-f...

The ascendancy of flax fibre strongly depends on the duration and process of its retting. In subtropical areas, warm and dry season quickly following the cold flax growing season does not allow dew retting of flax. Hence, development of suitable retting technology is utmost need under such climate. Therefore, an experiment was designed with seven t...

Sustainability and climate change are the two major challenges to the agricultural production system. The trade-off between them is essential for higher profitability. The energy assessment is essential for judging the sustainability and vulnerability of a production system. Besides, nutrient management and weed management are equally imperative to...

Continuous rice–wheat cropping system with intensive conventional tillage operations have been showing natural resource degradation. Hence, the sustainability of this major cropping system in eastern India is under a threat. Adoption of resource conservation such as conservation tillage practice with residue retention on the soil and diversificatio...