Conservation tillage (CT) for climate-smart sustainable intensification: Benchmarking CT to improve soil properties, water footprint and bulb yield productivity in onion cultivation.

Md Mashiur Rahman, Naznin Sultana, Muhammad Arshadul Hoque, Md Golam Azam, Md Rafiqul Islam, Md Altaf Hossain

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Md Mashiur RahmanAgricultural Engineering Division, Pulses Research Centre & Regional Agricultural Research Station, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Ishurdi, 6620, Pabna, Bangladesh.

Naznin SultanaEntomology Division, Bangladesh Sugarcrop Research Institute, Ishurdi, 6620, Pabna, Bangladesh.

Muhammad Arshadul HoqueFarm Machinery and Postharvest Process Engineering Division, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Gazipur, 1701, Bangladesh.

Md Golam AzamPlant Breeding Division, Pulses Research Centre, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Ishurdi, 6620, Pabna, Bangladesh.

Md Rafiqul IslamAgronomy Division, Regional Agricultural Research Station, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Ishurdi, 6620, Pabna, Bangladesh.

Md Altaf HossainEntomology Division, Pulses Research Centre, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute, Ishurdi, 6620, Pabna, Bangladesh.

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Environmental sustainability indicators for conservation tillage (CT) in agricultural systems primarily focus on assessing the impacts on soil organic carbon (SOC) and water footprint (WF). One way to improve these indicators is by boosting crop production while minimizing environmental impact through the implementation of sustainable intensification (SI) and climate-smart agriculture (CSA) to ensure food security. Conservation agriculture (CA) based CT practice with crop residue retention has potential for benchmarking the conserving of water in agriculture, improving soil health, crop productivity and ensuring agricultural sustainability. The CT-based water-saving potential in onion cultivation nonetheless remains understudied in Bangladesh. For this, a field experiment was undertaken to assess soil properties and water footprint in onion cultivation in the Charland agroecosystem in Jamalpur, Bangladesh. Three different tillage practices, such as minimum tillage (MT), tractor tillage (TT) and conventional power tillage (PT), and flatbed flood irrigation were introduced with four replications. Tillage practices showed significant positive effects on yield characteristics and bulb yields. The findings indicate that the MT practice in onion (BARI Piaz-4) cultivation resulted in the highest fresh bulb yield of 22.79 t ha

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Agricultural sustainabilityClimate-smart agricultureConservation agricultureSoil health improvementWater-use efficiencyYield optimization

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PMID39584089

DOI10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e39749

PMCPMC11585807

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