1Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy, M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India
2MSc Agronomy, Division of Agronomy, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Technology and Management, Jammu, India
3PG Scholar, Department of Soil Science, M.S. Swaminathan School of Agriculture, Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India
Corresponding author email: lalichetti.sagar@cutm.ac.in
Article Publishing History
Received: 19/10/2020
Accepted After Revision: 29/12/2022
The Green revolution is responsible for paradigm shift in Agriculture in the World ensuring food security. This led to heavy use of synthetic inputs to fulfil the demand of high yielding fertilizer responsive crops which over a long run questioned sustainability of the Agricultural system. Recently, resource conservation technology is gaining popularity due to its potential to manage ill effects of green revolution thereby minimizing the threat to the environment. Among several RCT’s mulching is one such practice that is efficient, cheap and easily adoptable. Mulching is a practice of covering the soil with organic or inorganic loose materials. In general, it acts as a barrier to entry of light and suppresses the weed growth. Moreover, this also minimizes the exchange of energy resulting in a significant role in moisture retention and conservation. This impact on soil properties has found to have a significant impact on growth, yield, and quality of many crops under field conditions. However, growth, yield and quality of any crop majorly depends on micro-climate of the crop and significant influence of mulching in microclimatic modification widened the scope of mulching favouring new integrations towards profitable crop production.
Mulching, RCT, Soil properties, Growth, Yield, Micro-organisms