Empirical observation of natural farming inputs on nitrogen uptake, soil health, and crop yield of rice-wheat cropping system in the organically managed Inceptisol of Trans Gangetic plain

作者：Sibananda Darjee, Renu Singh, Shiva Dhar, Renu Pandey, Neeta Dwivedi, Pramod Kumar Sahu, Mayank Kumar, Gunturi Alekhya, Smruti Ranjan Padhan, Pooja Ramalingappa, Manoj Shrivastava · 发表于：Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.3389/fsufs.2024.1324798 · 被引用次数：24 · 研究领域：Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics、Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement、Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact

Natural Farming represents an agro-ecological methodology for farming that emphasizes regenerative practices with an aim to promote holistic ecological balance and reduce the dependence on external inputs as well as financial resources. Substantial concern has recently arisen over the need to promote agroecosystems that are more sustainable in order to improve the deteriorating soil health as well as reversing the yield plateau of crop. So, the current on farm field experiment was executed comprising of 8 treatments with different combination of natural farming inputs (Ghanjeevamrit, Jeevamrit, Beejamrit), organic fertilizer (such as FYM), integrated nutrient management (NPK, FYM, Azotobacter and Azolla) and in-organic(NPK) to examine and compare the consequence of natural farming inputs, organic fertilizer and in-organic dosage of fertilizer on soil nitrogen uptake, soil physicochemical properties, soil biological properties, soil microbial population and crop yields in a rice-wheat cropping system over two crop seasons 2021–23 [rice (Pusa-1509) and wheat (HD-3086)]. The study results demonstrated that there was significant ( p < 0.05) increase in the soil’s nitrogen availability and nitrogen uptake with the use of natural farming inputs as compared to control treatment, whereas, natural farming treatments (T NF1 , T NF2 , T NF3 , T MNF ) were inferior than integrated nutrient management (T INM ) and recommended doses of fertilizer (T RDF ) treatment in case of nitrog...