National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Improving the socio-economic status of the farmers and sustainable food grain production is an important issue in semi-arid regions. Shrinking natural resources due to land degradation, urbanization, climate change, scanty and uneven distribution of rainfall lead to a reduction in the productivity of dryland crops. Hence, the study was conducted on the effect of different sizes of compartment bund system (in-situ moisture conservation) with partial mechanized methods for increasing productivity and profitability of chickpea crop under vertisols of the semi-arid region of northern Karnataka. Chickpea was grown in the rabi season under a compartment bund system of different sizes (in-situ moisture conservation) of 2x2 m and 3x3 m were found best practices for efficient management of in-situ moisture content in vertisols which significantly increases the grain yield, water use efficiency, and water productivity. In addition to this, the compartment bund system with partial mechanization in various operations i.e., from land preparation to harvesting and threshing increases the farm income, in terms of gross return, the net return, and B: C ratio by reducing input cost. About 30 to 60 percent of chickpea yield was achieved by adopting compartment bunds with partial mechanical methods in rainfed regions.
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