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Relay cropping as a sustainable approach: problems and opportunities for sustainable crop production

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posted on 2023-05-19, 17:15 authored by Mohsin TanveerMohsin Tanveer, Anjum, SA, Hussain, S, Cerda, A, Ashraf, U
Climate change, soil degradation, and depletion of natural resources are becoming the most prominent challenges for crop productivity and environmental sustainability in modern agriculture. In the scenario of conventional farming system, limited chances are available to cope with these issues. Relay cropping is a method of multiple cropping where one crop is seeded into standing second crop well before harvesting of second crop. Relay cropping may solve a number of conflicts such as inefficient use of available resources, controversies in sowing time, fertilizer application, and soil degradation. Relay cropping is a complex suite of different resource-efficient technologies, which possesses the capability to improve soil quality, to increase net return, to increase land equivalent ratio, and to control the weeds and pest infestation. The current review emphasized relay cropping as a tool for crop diversification and environmental sustainability with special focus on soil. Briefly, benefits, constraints, and opportunities of relay cropping keeping the goals of higher crop productivity and sustainability have also been discussed in this review. The research and knowledge gap in relay cropping was also highlighted in order to guide the further studies in future.

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Publication title

Environmental Science and Pollution Research

Volume

24

Issue

8

Pagination

6973-6988

ISSN

0944-1344

Department/School

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

Publisher

Ecomed Publishers

Place of publication

Rudolf-Diesel-Str 3, Landsberg, Germany, D-86899

Rights statement

Copyright 2017 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

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  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Expanding knowledge in the agricultural, food and veterinary sciences

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