Himachal Journal of Agricultural Research

Akashdeep Singh ¹, Pawan Pathania ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Agronomy, CSK Himachal Pradesh Krishi Vishvavidyalaya, Palampur-176 062, IN

Abstract

An experiment was conducted during 2018-19 in the mid-hill conditions of Himachal Pradesh at Bhadiarkar experimental farm of Department of Agronomy, College of Agriculture, CSK HPKV, Palampur (H.P.). The experiment comprised of ten treatments (maize-wheat; maize-wheat + gobhi sarson; dhaincha-early cabbage-frenchbean; sunhemp-vegetable pea-frenchbean; maize + soybean-chickpea + linseed; rice-wheat + gram; hybrid sorghum + hybrid bajra-oats + sarson (hybrid); hybrid sorghum + hybrid bajra-ryegrass + berseem; babycorn-broccoli-frenchbean and okra-turnip-tomato) which was laid out in randomized block design with three replications. All the crop sequences have higher food availability in comparison to the rice-wheat + gram and maize-wheat (16.44 and 17.92 kg ha^-1 day^-1). The diversification of the traditional crop sequences not only lead to better utilization of the land resources but also provided higher food availability.

Keywords

Crop Sequences, Diversification, Food Availability, Land Use Efficiency, Maize.

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