Raj Pal Meena

Raj Pal Meena
Indian Institute of Wheat & Barley Research< Karnal

Bachelor of Applied Science

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Rice residue burning poses a significant challenge in the rice-wheat cropping system of India, leading to environmental pollution, health issues, and substantial nutrient loss. To combat this menace, a three-year study (2020-21 to 2022-23) was conducted, investigating the effects of rice residue retention (RRR) and rice residue incorporation (RRI)...
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Highly significant variations due to treatments, locations and TxL interactions were observed for wheat yield by analysis of variance during field evaluation of nano urea formulations at number of locations in the north western plans zone of the country. First component of AMMI analysis shared of about 51.3% while second accounted for 29.9%. Signif...
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Integrated nutrient management (INM) remains a strategic area for improving crop productivity and soil fertility while reducing the burden on the environment. In India, the majority of farmers are small and marginal, with land holdings of less than 2 hectares, accounting for 85% of the farming population. The country also has a significant livestoc...
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The global population is constantly increasing, reached 8 billion in November 2022 and is expected to reach 9 billion by 2037. This increased population is expected to increase the demand for food, clothing and shelter, which in turn are heavily dependent on limited water resources. The available freshwater resources for agricultural use are furthe...
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AMMI analysis of treatments consisted of levels of potassium with irrigations observed highly significant effects of locations, treatments, and T×L interactions for wheat yield. About 53.4% of the total variations in yield values was due to locations followed by 26.3% and 10.8% by treatments and interactions effects. Further analysis found 59.7% co...
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Conservation agriculture (CA) is a promising management practice adopted by spring wheat growers in the Indo-Gangetic plains (IGPs) of India, particularly in areas where residue burning is prominent. Effective nitrogen management is essential to achieve maximum profitable wheat yield under CA to promote agricultural sustainability. A field experime...
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Conservation agriculture (CA) is a promising management practice adopted by spring wheat growers in the Indo-Gangetic plains (IGPs) of India, particularly in areas where residue burning is prominent. Effective nitrogen management is essential to achieve maximum profitable wheat yield under CA to promote agricultural sustainability. A field experime...
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A field experiment was conducted during summer 2018 and 2019 to study the performance of maize (Zea mays L.) genotypes under drip and furrow irrigation regimes at the Main Agriculture Research Station, University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka. The experiment was laid out in strip plot design with 3 replications. Treatments included 4...
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The improved crop varieties and inorganic fertilizers played a key role in bringing the revolutionary change from insufficient to surplus food grains production. In the era of self-reliant in food grains production, the noxious impacts of long-term sole application of inorganic fertilizers on natural resources are being observed critically and clim...
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Wheat is the flagship and staple food crop in India. Cultivation of wheat taking place under assured irrigation facility in India. One of the biggest difficulties faced by wheat farmers in all regions is depletion of ground water resources at an alarming rate. This study was conducted to test the hypothesis that variability with respect to water us...
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The future of the farming is at stake owing to continuous depletion of aquifers and rising pressure on both above and belowground water resources. In this chapter different approach for management and scheduling of irrigation in rice-wheat cropping system is discussed. The impact of adopting the latest irrigation technologies on water saving and wa...
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Continuous cultivation of rice–wheat cropping system (RWCS) in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India is showing declining factor productivity coupled with many environmental problems. Diversifying the RWCS is one of the environmental friendly options for sustaining food production. Four crop rotations involving maize and sorghum in summer, wheat/potato/mus...
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Rice-wheat cropping system, intensively followed in Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP), played a prominent role in fulfilling the food grains demand of the increasing population of South Asia. In northern Indian plains, some practices such as intensive rice cultivation with traditional method for long-term have been associated with severe deterioration of...
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The intercropping of legumes with cereals help to achieve sustainable intensification by their mutual complementarity at efficiently using radiation, nutrients, etc. Several studies indicated such beneficial effects on the other component crop however, little research has been conducted to quantify their effects on the subsequent crop in a cropping...
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Rice-wheat cropping system and associated residue burning is a major cause of air pollution and soil health depletion in Northern India. This calls for urgent technological interventions to address the issue and improve the profitability of this cropping system. Objective was to study the effect of rice residue incorporation (RRI) and green gram in...
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Continuous cultivation of Rice-Wheat Cropping System (RWCS) in Indo-Gangetic Plains of India is showing declining factor productivity coupled with many environmental problems. Diversifying the RWCS is one of the environmental friendly options for sustaining food production.Four crop rotations involving maize and sorghum in summer, wheat/ potato/ mu...
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Generally, fields are not properly leveled leading to poor performance of the crops, because part of area suffers due to water stress and part due to excess of water leading to reduced productivity. Precision land leveling is a precursor resource optimization option for increased inputs use efficiency coupled with more area under the crop due to re...
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The rice–wheat cropping system being the backbone of food security in South-Asia has resulted in soil health deterioration, declining water table, and air pollution affecting livability index of the region. The effect of rice residue retention (RRR), irrigation levels and foliar application of K on wheat grain yield (GY), water use efficiency (WUE)...
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Article Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378377419308704 | Full article shall be sent on request if you don't have access | Intensive cultivation of irrigated wheat in 30m ha area is mainly causing the depletion of groundwater resources in India. This calls for urgent technological interventions to improve the water...
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A four year field study was conducted from 2010-11 to 2013-14 at the research farm of ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana to evaluate the influence of timing and frequency of urea top dressing on wheat productivity. The 13 treatments consisted of three nitrogen levels (90, 120 and 150 kg N ha-1), two time of applicat...
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A field experiment was conducted for eight years at ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana, India to study the skipping effect of P application on productivity, profitability and sustainability of rice-wheat cropping system. Rice yield and biomass were 8.35% and 6.6% higher where cowpea was grown after wheat compared to...
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A field experiment was conducted for eight years at ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana, India to study the skipping effect of P application on productivity, profitability and sustainability of rice-wheat cropping system. Rice yield and biomass were 8.35% and 6.6% higher where cowpea was grown after wheat compared to...
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Value chain consists of stakeholders and their collective actions including input and support services for production, marketing and distribution of the product till it reaches the final consumer under enabling environment. In the recent years, value chain is gaining momentum particularly in the context of doubling income of farmers by 2022. Value...
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Field studies were conducted during the four rabi seasons (2011-12 to 2014-15) to investigate the impact of seed priming and micro irrigation on crop establishment, growth, productivity, and water productivity in wheat under different moisture regimes. Results indicated that sprouted seed (5830 kg ha-1) and primed seed (5766 kg ha-1) produced signi...
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Field studies were conducted during the four Rabi seasons (2011-12 to 2014-15) to investigate the impact of seed priming and micro irrigation on crop establishment, growth, productivity, and water productivity in wheat under different moisture regimes. Results indicated that sprouted seed (5830 kg ha-1) and primed seed (5766 kg ha-1) produced signi...
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Monotonous rice-wheat cropping system with conventional management practices have resulted in declining soil quality and biota in addition to low input factor productivity and farmer's profitability in western Indo-Gangetic plains (IGP) of India. Conservation agriculture (CA) based sustainable intensification (SI) is required to improve the soil qu...
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It is the magic of a song that made it possible to edge out the sad reminiscences into oblivion. This emphasizes the need to compile all such works of art which serve to document history of important events. A complete documentation, cataloguing and archiving may be considered, in order to ensure that memories of such tragedies may become a statist...
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Agriculture is a primary occupation and has been more intensified to feed the growing population, which has resulted in adverse effects on different production components, especially soil health. Soil is the substratum required to support the plants grow and ultimately human life; for sustainable agriculture it is necessary to have a holistic soil...
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Citation Tripathi SC, S Chander and RP Meena. 2017. FIRB intercropping of vegetables and seed spices with wheat for higher productivity and profitability of small and marginal farmers. Abstract A field experiment was conducted for two consecutive years commencing from 2014-2015 to 2015-2016 at ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Kar...
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This study was conducted for 4 consecutive years commencing from 2012-13 to 2015-16 at ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research, Karnal, Haryana, India with the objectives to evaluate tillage options in rice (Oryza sativa L.)-wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) system and N-levels in wheat for higher productivity and profitability. Combined anal...
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Theoretically, water productivity is defined as the ratio of economic yield output to water used. The biggest challenge on this front is to improve the efficiency and productivity of water being used in existing systems. Agricultural productivity has basically two components: one for the yield (physical biomass) per unit of water (water productivit...
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Climate change impacts agriculture, food production and security in view of a region's geography, monsoon dependency and weather extremities. Yield sensitivity to the anomalies of weather is an emerging issue in the perspective of climate smart farming. The present study develops an approach to assess the yield sensitivity of rice-wheat cropping sy...
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p>A field experiment was done for two consecutive years from 2010-11 to 2011-12 with two varieties of wheat (DBW 17 and DPW 621-50) and ten treatments of fertilizer, involving NPK, FYM and micronutrient, with an objective to maximize the crop yield. Results showed that variety DBW 17 recorded significantly higher grain yield (4.93 %), straw yield (...
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Field experiment was conducted with inclusion of green gram and cowpea after wheat and vegetable pea in between rice and wheat under three different tillage (zero tillage, bed planting and conventional tillage) conditions. Tillage options were imposed for latter two crops only after Kharif season. All the intensification treatments recorded higher...
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Climate change impacts agriculture, food production and security in view of a region’s geography, monsoon dependency and weather extremities. Yield sensitivity to the anomalies of weather is an emerging issue in the perspective of climate smart farming. The present study develops an approach to assess the yield sensitivity of rice–wheat cropping sy...
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A field experiment was conducted during winter seasons of three years from to assess the productivity and profitability of canola and mustard intercropping with wheat in different ratios. Pooled analysis of data recorded over three years revealed that the significantly highest wheat equivalent yield (69.88 q/ha) was recorded in wheat : canola inter...
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A field experiment was done for two consecutive years from 2010-11 to 2011-12 with two varieties of wheat (DBW 17 and DPW 621-50) and ten treatments of fertilizer, involving NPK, FYM and micronutrient, with an objective to maximize the crop yield. Results showed that variety DBW 17 recorded significantly higher grain yield (4.93 %), straw yield (6....
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About 9% of area on earth is under crops out of which 91% is under various stresses. On an average, about 50% yield losses are due to abiotic stresses mostly due to high temperature (20%), low temperature (7%), salinity (10%), drought (9%) and other abiotic stresses (4%). As there is no scope for increasing area under agriculture, the increased pro...
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A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of the Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal (Haryana) during 2007-08 to 2009-10 with the objective to compare the whole basal and split application of nitrogen under different residue management and tillage options in rice-wheat cropping system. Combined analysis of data revealed that puddled t...
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Moisture stress is a major constraint in productivity across the wheat growing zones of India. Climate change and uneven rainfall further aggravate the situation under moisture stress environments. Wheat genotypes capable of giving increased yield under a broad range of optimal and sub-optimal water availability are considered desirable. This study...
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An experiment was conducted during the winter (rabi) seasons of 2010–11 to 2013–14 at Karnal, Haryana to assess the impact of seed priming on crop establishment, growth, productivity and water-use efficiency of wheat [Triticum aestivum (L.) emend, Fiori & Paol.] under different moisture regimes. The experiment was carried out in a split-plot design...
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The present study is an attempt to find the long-run trend in the weather parameters for rice (Kharif) and wheat (Rabi) growing season in Karnal district of Haryana and then analysing the sensitivity of crop yield towards the climate change. Evidence of significant long-run trend in weather variables has been noticed during the rice and wheat growi...
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Rice-wheat is the predominant cropping system and contributes more than 70% of food grain production in India. However, major problem in this system is depletion and deterioration of water resources. Therefore, efforts must be focussed on reversing the trend in water resources depletion by adopting efficient irrigation technologies. The prevalent i...
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A field experiment was conducted at the research farm of the Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal (Haryana) during 2007-08 to 2009-10 with the objective to compare the whole basal and split application of nitrogen under different residue management and tillage options in rice-wheat cropping system. Combined analysis of data revealed that puddled t...
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The farmer’s training programme on “Modern cultivation of seed potato, wheat and agro-forestry was organised at RS, DWR Dalang Maidan from Aug 5-7, 2014. The scientists from NRC for Agroforesrty, Jhansi, CPRI, Shimla, CSKHPKV, Palampur, Dr. YS Parmar University of Horticulture and Forestry, Solan and Directorate of Wheat Resrach, Karnal helped in s...
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A field experiment was conducted for three consecutive years during 2007 to 2010 at Karnal by using three high yielding disease resistant wheat [Triticum aestivum (L.) emend. Fiori & Paol] varieties namely PBW 502, HD 2687 and DBW 17 with two sowing time (last week of October and mid November), two seed rates (100 and 125 kg/ha) and two N rates (15...
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Wheat is the second most important staple food crop of India and contributes a major share to food basket of the country. Since majority of the area under wheat is irrigated, it consumes huge quantity of fresh water for its cultivation. The availability of good quality water for irrigation is decreasing over a period of time due to vagaries of mons...
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A field experiment was conducted for three consecutive years during 2007 to 2010 at Karnal by using three high yielding disease resistant wheat [Triticum aestivum (L.) emend. Fiori & Paol] varieties namely 'PBW 502', 'HD 2687' and 'DBW 17' with two sowing time (last week of October and mid November), two seed rates (100 and 125 kg/ha) and two N rat...
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Wheat is the second most important staple food crop of India and contributes a major share to food basket of the country. Since majority of the area under wheat is irrigated, it consumes huge quantity of fresh water for its cultivation. The availability of good quality water for irrigation is decreasing over a period of time due to vagaries of mons...
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A Seed bank is repository where seeds are stored at low temperature and relative humidity to maintain their viability for longer duration without affecting their genetic integrity. the paper deals with preservation of wheat germplasm for longer durations under ambient conditions of alpine climate of western Himalayas.
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To assess the impact of 4 year ley farming with 2 grasses: i.e. Cenchrus (Cenchrus ciliaris) and sewan (Lasiurus sindicus), a field experiment was conducted on low fertile coarse sandy soil at Bikaner, Rajasthan during June 2000-December 2004. Two cutting schedules (half yearly and yearly) and 3 varieties (CAZRI-75, CAZRI-358 and CAZRI-1106 of Cenc...
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Production of genetically pure and quality pedigree seed requires skill and specialization. Seed production must be carried out under standard and well organized conditions. The producer must be familiar with agronomic and genetic principles of seed production. During the course of production, it is necessary to ensure that the product is true to t...