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Cropping system intensification: vegetable pea can replace fallow between rainfed monsoon rice and irrigated spring rice

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2017

A. I. MALIK ,
M. NASIM ,
K. FLOWER ,
M. A. HOSSAIN ,
M. S. RAHMAN ,
B. ANWAR ,
M. O. ALI ,
M. M. RAHMAN  and
W. ERSKINE
A. I. MALIK
Affiliation:
Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (PGB), UWA School of Agriculture and Environment; and The Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
M. NASIM
Affiliation:
Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI), Gazipur, Bangladesh
K. FLOWER
Affiliation:
UWA School of Agriculture and Environment; and The Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
M. A. HOSSAIN
Affiliation:
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur, Bangladesh
M. S. RAHMAN
Affiliation:
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur, Bangladesh
B. ANWAR
Affiliation:
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur, Bangladesh
M. O. ALI
Affiliation:
Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI), Gazipur, Bangladesh
M. M. RAHMAN
Affiliation:
International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), House 103, Road 1, Block F, Bonani, Dhaka, Bangladesh
W. ERSKINE*
Affiliation:
Centre for Plant Genetics and Breeding (PGB), UWA School of Agriculture and Environment; and The Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
*
*To whom all correspondence should be addressed. Email: william.erskine@uwa.edu.au
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Summary

The Eastern Gangetic Plain is among the world's most intensively farmed regions, where rainfed and irrigated agriculture coexist. While the region and especially Bangladesh is a major producer of rice (Oryza sativa L. ssp. indica), there is potential to further develop sustainable rice production systems. Specifically, there is scope to include a replacement crop for the short fallow between rice crops in the dominant cropping pattern of rainfed monsoon rice harvest followed by irrigated spring rice. The aim of the current research was to identify a suitable cool-season legume crop – pea (Pisum sativum L.) or lentil (Lens culinaris Medik. ssp. culinaris) – that could be grown in the brief period between rice crops. The study comprised four crop sequence experiments comparing legume cultivars differing in maturity grown in between both long and short duration rice cultivars. These experiments were done at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute regional station at Rajshahi over three cropping cycles. This was followed by an evaluation of pea vs. fallow between rice crops on three farmers’ fields in one cropping cycle. Here it is demonstrated that green pod vegetable pea is one of the best options to intensify the rainfed monsoon rice–fallow–spring irrigated rice cropping system, notwithstanding other remunerative rabi cropping options that could displace boro rice. The inclusion of an extra crop, pea as green pod vegetable, increased farm productivity by 1·4-fold over the dominant cropping sequence (rice–fallow–rice) and farm net income by fourfold. The study highlighted the advantages in total system productivity and monetary return of crop intensification with the inclusion of a pea crop between successive rice crops instead of a fallow period.

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Crops and Soils Research Papers
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The Journal of Agricultural Science , Volume 155 , Issue 8 , October 2017 , pp. 1287 - 1298
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