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Cereal-Legume Cropping System in Indian Himalayan Region for Food and Environmental Sustainability

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The Indian Himalayan Region (IHR) is extended from Jammu and Kashmir to the northeastern part of the country and shows a great differentiation in climatic, edaphic, geological, vegetation, and other features due to complex variegation of agroecosystems which leads to diverse agroecological zones. Agriculture is the important source of livelihood of the region, and rice (Oryza sativa L), wheat (Triticum aestivum L.), and maize (Zea mays L.) are the main crops of the entire IHR. Unsustainable agricultural practices, such as monocropping, conventional tillage, indiscriminate use of fertilizers and pesticides, etc., apart from land degradation and cropland scarcity have serious implications for livelihood security in IHR. Under such scenario, there is a need to diversify cropping pattern to make the entire agricultural system sustainable and environmentally secure. Inclusions of legumes in cereal-based cropping system either as intercrop or in sequence of crop rotation are the most promising options for diversified sustainability of the system and enhance the cropping intensity. Diverse habitat of IHR favors the growth and development of an amazing variety of legumes and other crops which make this region the rich hub for agricultural crop diversity specifically the legume crops. Broad bean (Vicia faba), horse gram (Macrotyloma uniflorum), field pea (Pisum sativum), black gram (Vigna mungo), adzuki bean (Vigna angularis), cowpea (Vigna unguiculata), soybean (Glycine max), lentil (Lens esculenta ), green gram (Vigna radiata ), beans (Phaseolus sp.), lathyrus (Lathyrus sativus), pigeon pea (Cajanus cajan L), etc. are some of the legumes cultivated by the farming communities in IHR. Rice bean [Vigna umbellata (Thunb.) Ohwi and Ohashi and mucuna/velvet bean [ Mucuna pruriens (L.) DC.] are some of the specific legumes grown abundantly in the eastern IHR which has immense food and natural resource conservation values. Albeit the legume species provides food, fuel, fodder, etc. and has multifarious roles in agriculture and natural resource conservation, their ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen in root nodules and subsequently contributions to the soil fertility give them the unique identity. Legume-based systems improve several aspects of soil fertility, such as soil organic carbon (SOC) and humus content and nitrogen and phosphorus availability, suppress weed growth through smothering effects, increase production per unit area, enhance land use efficiency, reduce runoff and soil loss, etc. Inclusion of legume provides sustainability to nonlegume cereal component by enriching soil fertility and increasing system productivity and returns. Significant reductions in the release of greenhouse gases, viz., carbon di-oxide, nitrous oxide etc., are a logical consequence of reduced fertilizer and energy use in arable systems with legumes. Pulses are considered the key crops for intensification of rice and maize-fallows of IHR due to their short-duration, hardy, and low-input requiring nature, hence offers a tremendous opportunity to utilize residual soil moisture.

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Abbreviations

B:C:

Benefit/cost

BNF:

Biological nitrogen fixation

CA:

Conservation agriculture

CI:

Cropping intensity

CO2 :

Carbon dioxide

CT:

Conventional tillage

DHA:

Dehydrogenase activity

FP:

Farmers’ practice

EHR:

Eastern Himalayan region

IHR:

Indian Himalayan Region

LER:

Land equivalent ratio

LUE:

Land use efficiency

MEY:

Maize equivalent yield

mt:

Million tons

MT:

Minimum tillage

N2O:

Nitrous oxide

NER:

North East Region

NT:

No-till

PEM:

Protein-energy-malnutrition

RDA:

Recommended dietary allowances

SMBC:

Soil microbial biomass carbon

SOC:

Soil organic carbon

SOM:

Soil organic matter

USD:

US dollar

WUE:

Water use efficiency

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Das, A. et al. (2018). Cereal-Legume Cropping System in Indian Himalayan Region for Food and Environmental Sustainability. In: Meena, R., Das, A., Yadav, G., Lal, R. (eds) Legumes for Soil Health and Sustainable Management. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0253-4_2

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