Crop nutrient management using Nutrient Expert improves yield, increases farmers’ income and reduces greenhouse gas emissions

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 1564 - 11
• Main Authors: Sapkota, Tek B., Jat, Mangi L., Rana, Dharamvir S., Khatri-Chhetri, Arun, Jat, Hanuman S., Bijarniya, Deepak, Sutaliya, Jhabar M., Kumar, Manish, Singh, Love K., Jat, Raj K., Kalvaniya, Kailash, Prasad, Gokul, Sidhu, Harminder S., Rai, Munmun, Satyanarayana, T., Majumdar, Kaushik
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 15.01.2021; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 704/106/694/682; 704/172/4081; Agricultural production; Agroecology; Cereal crops; Climate change; Crop management; Crop production; Crop yield; Crops; Emissions; Emissions control; Farm income; Farmers; Fertilization; Fertilizers; Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Humanities and Social Sciences; Income; multidisciplinary; Nutrients; Rice; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Soil properties; Wheat; India

Reduction of excess nutrient application and balanced fertilizer use are the key mitigation options in agriculture. We evaluated Nutrient Expert (NE) tool-based site-specific nutrient management (SSNM) in rice and wheat crops by establishing 1594 side-by-side comparison trials with farmers’ fertiliz...