Sustainability of Post-Green Revolution Agriculture:

The Rice-Wheat Cropping System of South Asia

BACKGROUND SUMMARY REPORT

February 1997 - September, 1999

Project Principle Investigators:

John M. Duxbury and Julie Lauren

 

South Asia

Sustainability of the Rice-Wheat Cropping System

Dr. John Duxbury and Dr. Julie Lauren, from "Cornell International Institute for Food,

Agriculture and Development (CIIFAD) Annual Report 1997-98",Cornell University

 

Scientists Reports from the Travelling Seminar on Rice-wheat Systems. 1997. P.R. Hobbs and C.A. Meisner( eds.) Cornell University and Rice-Wheat Consortium.

 

Abrol, I.P., K.F. Bronson, J.M. Duxbury, and R.K. Gupta. 1997. Summary paper: Long-term soil fertility experiments in rice-wheat cropping systems: Proceedings of a workshop, 15-18 Oct, 1996, Surajkund, Haryana, India. Rice-Wheat Consorium Paper Series no. 1. .23pp

 

Rao, K, D. and S.C. Kyle. 1997 Effective incentives and chickpea competitiveness in India. Working paper no. 97-16. Dept. Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics, Ithaca, NY 14853.

 

Lauren, J.G., Duxbury, J.M., Beri, V., Razzaque II, M.A., Sattar, M.A., Pandey, S.P., Bhattarai, S., Mann, R.A. and Ladha, J.K. 1998. Direct and residual effects from forage and green manure legumes in rice-based cropping systems. p. 55-81. In J.V.D.K. Kumar Rao, C. Johansen and T.J. Rego (ed.) Residual effects of legumes in rice and wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co., Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi, India.

 

Scientists Reports from the Travelling Seminar on Tillage and Crop Establishment. 1998. P.R. Hobbs and I.P. Abrol (eds.) Cornell University and Rice-Wheat Consortium.

 

Ranjit, J. N.K. Rajbhandari, R. Belinder, and P.K.K. Kataki. 1999. Mapping Phalaris minor in rice-wheat cropping system of different agroecological regions of Nepal. Nepal Agric. Res. Council and Soil Management CRSP-Cornell Univ. 65pp.

 

Pande, S. , C. Johansen, J. Lauren, and F.T. Bantilan Jr., (eds). 1999. GIS analysis of cropping systems; proceedings of an international workshop on harmonization of databases for GIS analysis of cropping systems in the S. Asia region. 18-19 Aug 1997, ICRISAT,-Pantancheru, India. 1999. Cornell University and ICRIST. 164 pp.

 

Abrol, I.P., K.F. Bronson, J.M. Duxbury, and R.K. Gupta. 2000. Long-term soil fertility experiments in rice-wheat cropping systems: Proceedings of a workshop, 15-18 Oct, 1996, Surajkund, Haryana, India. Rice-Wheat Consorium and Soil Management CRSP, (In press).

 

Duxbury, J.M., I.P. Abrol, R. Gupta, and K.R. Bronson. 2000. Analysis of long-term soil fertility experiments with rice-wheat rotations in South Asia. In.Long-term Soil fertility Experiments with the rice-rheat cropping system. Rice-Wheat Consortium and Soil Management-CRSP. (In press)

 

Hobbs, P.R., Y.Singh, G.S.Giri, J.G. Lauren and J.M. Duxbury. 2000. Direct seeding and reduced tillage options in the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains of South Asia. Proc. Int. Rice Res. Instit. Procedings of workshop 'Direct Seeding in Asian Rice Systems.' Bangkok, Thailand. 25-28 January 2000. (In press).

 

Johansen, C., J. Duxbury, S.M. Virmani, C.L. Gowda, S. Pande, and P.K. Joshi (eds). 2000. Legumes in Rice-Wheat cropping systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plain: Constraints and opportunities. ICRISAT and Cornell University (in press).

 

Singh, Yadvinder, Bijay Singh, J.G. Lauren, and J.M. Duxbury. 2000. Crop residue management for rice-based cropping systems of the tropics. Adv. Agron. (In review).

 

Theses

Rao, K. D. Effective incemives and chickpea competitiveness in India. M.S., Cornell University. 235 pp.

Videos

Mechanical Revolution in South Asia-The Growing Use of the Chinese Hand Tractor. 1997

Cornell Univ. and CIMMYT-Bangladesh.

Training Materials

Widmer, T. and G. Abawi. 1999. Procedure manual for rice-wheat sampling and processing in Nepal and Bangladesh. Training tool. Cornell University.