Providing the world's population with sufficient and nutritious food through sustainable food
systems is a major challenge of the twenty-first century. Fertilizer use is a major driver of crop …

Boosting crop productivity can be attained through the application of inorganic fertilizer;
however, safeguarding the environment for future generations is overbearing especially for …

Soybean–wheat cropping system is the most commonly used in the black soil of India which
produces enormous amounts of nutrient‐rich residues. However, black soil has some …

The scarcity of fertilizers and their rising costs are significant barriers to crop production, as
the current agricultural situation in India has shown. In maize–potato–onion cropping …

Integrated nutrient management (INM) got substantial attention to decrease reliance on
synthetic fertilizer applications in agricultural soils. However, the concept of INM in nutrient …

Background Many studies have indicated that straw-returning could meet part or even all of
the potassium (K) demand for crop growth in the field, but few have compared the effects of …

India has achieved a record food grain production of~ 300 million tonnes in 2019–2020.
Simultaneous production of a large volume of crop residues (CRs) is natural. It is …

Barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) is one of the ancient cereal crops of agriculture in the world and
one of the first domesticated cereals and fourth largest cereal crop next to maize, wheat and …

Organic agriculture offers many benefits through the increased nutritional quality of
produced crops, agro-ecosystem preservation, and climate change mitigation. The …

Immensely and unremitting rise in cost of fertilizers bound us to review the different
management practices including utilizing crop residues and green manuring with some new …