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International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
the medium and long duration crops rather than keeping it fallow (general tradition of the
farmers) in such land situations.
T1-11R-1402
Evaluation of In Situ Moisture Conservation Techniques for Sustainable
Productivity of Chick pea in Bundelkhand Region
C.M. Tripathi, Manoj Kumar, Satish Pathak and K.S. Shukla
Deendayal Research Institute, Tulsi Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Ganiwan, Chitrakoot 210206, M.P.
Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is commonly known as gram which is one of the important pulse
crop of India. About 65% of global area with 68% of Global chickpea is contributed by India.
In India, the area under chickpea was 7.37 million hectares with a production of 5.891 million
tons and productivity of 799.19 kg ha -1 during rabi 2018-19 (Agropedia). In India, Madhya
Pradesh is one of the major chickpea producing states. The problem under dryland agriculture
is low yield and unstable production. Despite the realization that it is much difficult to increase
the production from drylands, it cannot be neglected, as a large number of farmers with more
than two-thirds of the cultivated area of the country is involved. Soil moisture conserve is a big
challenge of dryland area, because its area is poor and unevenly distributed of rainfall for the
period of crop growing stages. While, the soil moisture is utilized to crop for transpiration and
taken up of nutrient, when the rainfall becomes insufficient to meet the potential needs to
transpiration. These are causes to depletion in soil moisture storage and reduced the production
and a situation which may be designated as agricultural drought. The major problem is
agricultural drought. Agricultural drought reduced through the application of various In Situ
moisture conserving technologies i.e. Contour bunding, Trench cum bund, land levelling,
mulching and land shaping, and enhanced soil moisture conserving capability and productivity
of this reason.
Methodology
The demonstrations (36) were organized on farmer’s field to demonstrate the impact of
moisture conservation technology on chick pea productivity over three years during kharif
2015 - 2018 at Tithara and Rampurva villages at farmer’s fields in Chitrakoot under
Bundelkhand reason. The soil of demonstration plots ranged from medium black to loamy soil.
The average rainfall of this district is 850 mm and more than 75% of the precipitation is
received over four months i.e. July - October. Five technologies were comprised like contour
bunding, trench cum bund, land level and bunding, land shaping and farmer practices. The
farmers used all packages and practices of this crop remaining to above technologies. The
demonstrations were conducted to study the increase percentage of yield and moisture percent.
The yield data were collected from both the demonstration and farmers practice by random
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