Assessment of Rice-mustard & Rice-chickpea Cropping Sequence through Conservation Agricultural Practices under Rice- Fallow Cropping System in Satna District of Madhya Pradesh, India

Rice – Fallow land due to the growing of a longer more extended duration variety of Rice by farmers affect timely sowing of rabi crop and land remains fallow due to inadequate moisture in field along with terminal heat stresses (about 14000 ha area) in district Satna (M.P.).The trial consisted of three treatments viz., T1- Rice (Variety with maturity above 125 days) in Kharif- fallow in Rabi, T2- Rice (MTU-1010)-Mustard (Pusa Mustard 28), T3- Rice (MTU-1010)-Chickpea (RVG-202). The Rice- Mustard cropping system recorded higher Rice equivalent yield over Rice-fallow by 42.12 q ha-1, system productivity 36.97 kg ha-1day-1, profitability by ₹470.94 ha-1day-1 and net return ₹ 103608 ha-1. Similarly, Rice-Chickpea cropping system gave 37.84 q ha-1 Rice equivalent yield, 35.11 kg ha-1day-1 higher productivity, ₹ 431.56 ha-1day-1 and net return ₹ 94942 ha-1 higher profit than Rice-fallow cropping system. Thus, from the present study, it can be concluded that Rice-Chickpea and Rice-Mustard cropping systems are appropriate and effective ways to use fallow land under Rice- Fallow cropping system.