Vol. 11, Issue 5 (2022)

Author(s):
Pooja, Sudhanshu Verma, Swati Swayamprabha Pradhan, Pankaj Kumar Gupta and Abhishek Singh

Abstract:
To sustain productivity and to increase the profit margin of farmers in maize crop, the major emphasis has been on alternative resource conservation technologies. In order to ameliorate the ill effect of traditional cropping system, efforts have been made to develop several resource conservation technologies. A shift in maize production system from rice is testimony of the resource conservation technologies. In view of conservation of natural resources, more emphasis is needed to accelerate the adoption of cost effective and environment-friendly crop management practices such as ridge and furrow, conventional flat bed, raised-bed planting hence, an attempt has been made in this chapter to review crop establishment methods viz., ridge and furrow, conventional flat bed, raised-bed planting. These are recent improved crop establishment techniques that can be used under specific agro-ecological conditions for enhancing yield and resource conservation.