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Gunny Bag Based Soil Columns for Crop Diversification in Rice Field to Enhance Livelihood Security of Land Scarce Farmers


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1 ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 700 120, India
 

Crop diversification in waterlogged rice field using gunny bag based soil columns produced 3–4 tonnes of kharif rice, 4.5–5.4 tonnes of rabi rice along with other vegetable crops worth Rs 0.5–3.0 lakh/ha with higher B : C ratio for cucurbits. Crop diversification in rice field using gunny bag/hessian based soil columns increased cropping intensity by 100–200 %, generated additional returns and increased employment opportunities. In this process, nearly 1500 to 5000 number of gunny bags (capacity 50 kg) can be used per hectare rice land in an economical manner. Even if 1.0% (0.4 M ha) of the total rice acreage in India and Bangladesh (40 M ha) is diversified, about 10 lakh tonnes jute fibre will be utilized. It will increase the marketing opportunities of raw jute fibre, provide nutritional and livelihood security to resource-poor farmers.

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Crop Diversification, Economic Benefit, Gunny Bag, Vegetable Production, Waterlogged Rice Field.
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Authors

A. K. Ghorai
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 700 120, India
D. K. Kundu
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 700 120, India
Shailesh Kumar
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 700 120, India
A. Shamna
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 700 120, India
Debarati Datta
ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres, Barrackpore 700 120, India

Abstract


Crop diversification in waterlogged rice field using gunny bag based soil columns produced 3–4 tonnes of kharif rice, 4.5–5.4 tonnes of rabi rice along with other vegetable crops worth Rs 0.5–3.0 lakh/ha with higher B : C ratio for cucurbits. Crop diversification in rice field using gunny bag/hessian based soil columns increased cropping intensity by 100–200 %, generated additional returns and increased employment opportunities. In this process, nearly 1500 to 5000 number of gunny bags (capacity 50 kg) can be used per hectare rice land in an economical manner. Even if 1.0% (0.4 M ha) of the total rice acreage in India and Bangladesh (40 M ha) is diversified, about 10 lakh tonnes jute fibre will be utilized. It will increase the marketing opportunities of raw jute fibre, provide nutritional and livelihood security to resource-poor farmers.

Keywords


Crop Diversification, Economic Benefit, Gunny Bag, Vegetable Production, Waterlogged Rice Field.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv119%2Fi7%2F1190-1195