Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications

An International  Peer Reviewed Refereed Open Access Journal

P-ISSN: 0974-6455 E-ISSN: 2321-4007

Bioscience Biotechnology Research Communications

An Open Access International Journal

Lalichetti Sagar1*, Sultan Singh2 and Lalichetti Sindhu3

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

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Article Publishing History

Received: 19/10/2020

Accepted After Revision: 29/12/2022

ABSTRACT:

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.

KEYWORDS:

Mulching, RCT, Soil properties, Growth, Yield, Micro-organisms

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