Evaluation of Different Crop Sequences for Yield, Crop Duration, Land Use Efficiency and Per Day Food Availability

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.