System-Based Integrated Nutrient Management Improves Productivity, Profitability, Energy Use Efficiency and Soil Quality in Peanut-Wheat Cropping Sequence in Light Black Soils

Ram A. Jat (), Navin K. Jain, Ranjit S. Yadav, Kiran K. Reddy, Raja Ram Choudhary, Pratap V. Zala, Har N. Meena, Susheel Sarkar, Sanjay S. Rathore, Gulshan K. Sharma, Anita Kumawat, Dinesh Jinger and Prakash K. Jha
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Ram A. Jat: ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, PB 5, Ivnagar Road, Junagadh 362 001, India
Navin K. Jain: ICAR-HRM Unit, Krishi Anusandhan Bhawan II, New Delhi 110 012, India
Ranjit S. Yadav: ICAR-Central Arid Zone Research Institute, Jodhpur 342 005, India
Kiran K. Reddy: ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, PB 5, Ivnagar Road, Junagadh 362 001, India
Raja Ram Choudhary: ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, PB 5, Ivnagar Road, Junagadh 362 001, India
Pratap V. Zala: ICAR-Directorate of Groundnut Research, PB 5, Ivnagar Road, Junagadh 362 001, India
Har N. Meena: ICAR-ATARI, Jodhpur 342 005, India
Susheel Sarkar: ICAR-Indian Agricultural Statistical Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, India
Sanjay S. Rathore: Division of Agronomy, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012, India
Gulshan K. Sharma: ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Kota 324 002, India
Anita Kumawat: ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Kota 324 002, India
Dinesh Jinger: ICAR-Indian Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Research Centre, Vasad 388 006, India
Prakash K. Jha: Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506, USA

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 2, 1-19

Abstract: Peanut ( Arachis hypogaea L.), being an energy-rich crop, is sensitive to nutrient deficiencies and a scavenger of nutrients from the soil. Optimum and integrated nutrient management (INM) improves productivity and the quality of seeds. The objective of this study was to identify suitable system-based INM (S-INM) options for peanut–wheat cropping sequence in the Saurashtra region of India. Results showed that peanut growth, yield attributing parameters, pod, and haulm yield, and NPK uptake were higher when 100% recommended fertilizer doses (RDFs) + farmyard manure (FYM) @5 t/ha + plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) were applied. However, application of 75% RDFs + FYM @5 t/ha + PGPR in peanut and 100% RDF in wheat was most effective to improve growth and yield attributes, yields and nutrient uptake by wheat. Further, this FYM- and PGPR-amended treatment was found to increase system productivity by 15.3 and 17.1%, system profitability by 17.0 and 22.6%, and net energy gain by 10.0 and 17.9% over the reference treatment and over farmers’ practice (FF), respectively. This sustainable system approach will be helpful for agronomists and farmers in identifying and practicing suitable field practices with further study on the residual effect of organic manures on the peanut–wheat based cropping system in the western region of India with light black soils.

Keywords: ex-situ green manure; peanut; PGPR-plant growth promoting rhizobacteria; system-based INM; wheat; FYM-farm-yard manure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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