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Agricultural Practices and Sustainable Management in South Asia

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Definitions

Allelopathy is an ecological phenomenon by which plants and/or microorganisms release organic chemicals (allelochemicals) into the environment influencing the growth and survival of other organisms (Cheema et al. 2013).

Conservation agriculture involves the maintenance of soil cover (permanent), minimum soil disturbance, planned crop rotations, and weed management (Kassam 2020).

Precision agriculture involves the use of temporal, spatial, and individual data in management decisions for efficient use of input resources, and profitability and sustainability of agricultural production systems.

Zero-till wheat corresponds to wheat crop directly sown in the residues of previous crops, without seedbed preparation (Nawaz et al. 2017). Direct seeded aerobic rice is rice direct seeding and water application as per crop requirement without maintaining of flooded conditions throughout the crop season (Farooq et al. 2011).

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South Asia comprises Afghanistan, Bangladesh,...

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  1. College of Agriculture, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Bahadur Sub-Campus, Layyah, Pakistan

    Ahmad Nawaz

  2. Department of Plant Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman

    Muhammad Farooq

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Nawaz, A., Farooq, M. (2020). Agricultural Practices and Sustainable Management in South Asia. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A., Brandli, L., Lange Salvia, A., Wall, T. (eds) Life on Land. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71065-5_112-1

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