Performance of rice systems, irrigation and organic carbon storage

K.G. Mandal; K. Kannan; A.K. Thakur; D.K. Kundu; P.S. Brahmanand; A. Kumar

doi:10.1556/crc.42.2014.2.17

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Volume/Issue:: Volume 42: Issue 2

Performance of rice systems, irrigation and organic carbon storage

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K.G. Mandal

K.G. Mandal ICAR Directorate of Water Management Bhubaneswar 751 023 Odisha India

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K. Kannan

K. Kannan ICAR Regional Research Station, CSWCR&TI Ooty Tamil Nadu India

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A.K. Thakur

A.K. Thakur ICAR Directorate of Water Management Bhubaneswar 751 023 Odisha India

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D.K. Kundu

D.K. Kundu ICAR Crop Production Division, CRIJAF Barrackpore West Bengal India

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P.S. Brahmanand

P.S. Brahmanand ICAR Directorate of Water Management Bhubaneswar 751 023 Odisha India

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A. Kumar

A. Kumar ICAR Directorate of Water Management Bhubaneswar 751 023 Odisha India

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Pages:: 346–358

Online Publication Date:: 21 May 2014

Publication Date:: 01 Jun 2014

Article Category:: Research Article

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1556/crc.42.2014.2.17

Keywords:: rice yield; irrigation WUE; soil organic carbon storage

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Three-year (2007/2008–2009/2010) field experiment was conducted at the Directorate of Water Management Research Farm under Deras command in Odisha, India to assess the crop yield, irrigation water use efficiency (WUE), sustainable yield index (SYI), land utilization index (LUI) and changes in soil organic carbon (SOC) for dominant rice systems, viz. rice-maize-rice, rice-cowpea-rice, rice-sunflower-rice, rice-tomato-okra and rice-fallow-rice. Results revealed that crop yield, in terms of total system productivity (TSP) increased by 273, 113, 106 and 58% in rice-tomato-okra, rice-sunflower-rice, rice-maize-rice and rice-cowpea-rice, respectively, when compared to rice-fallow-rice. Irrigation WUE was 49–414% greater in rice-based diversified systems than the existing rice-fallow-rice (2.98 kg ha⁻¹ mm⁻¹). The SYI ranged from 0.65 to 0.75 indicating greater sustainability of the systems. Three crops in a sequence resulted in greater LUI and production efficiency compared to rice-fallow-rice. The gross economic return and benefit-cost ratio was in the order: rice-tomato-okra > rice-maize-rice > rice-sunflower-rice > rice-cowpea-rice > rice-fallow-rice. The SOC storage ranged from 40.55 Mg ha⁻¹ in rice-fallow-rice to 46.23 Mg ha⁻¹ in rice-maize-rice system. The other systems had also very close values of SOC storage with the rice-maize-rice system; there was a positive change of SOC (7.20 to 12.52 Mg ha⁻¹) for every system, with highest in rice-maize-rice system and the lowest in rice-fallow-rice. It is concluded that the appropriate rice-based system would be rice-tomato-okra followed by rice-maize-rice, rice-sunflower-rice and rice-cowpea-rice. Rice-fallow-rice is not advisable because of its lower productivity, lower LUI and economic return.

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