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    This document discusses relay cropping, which involves planting the next crop after the flowering of the standing crop and before harvest. Specifically, it examines relay seeding wheat into standing cotton crops. It finds that relay seeding wheat yields higher wheat yields than conventional practices like hand drilling or broadcasting after cotton harvest. On average over four sites and two years, relay seeding yielded 4.91 tons/hectare of wheat compared to 4.52 tons/hectare for broadcasting and 3.93 tons/hectare for conventional practices. Relay seeding also had higher profitability, with a benefit-cost ratio of 3.15 compared to 2.61 for hand drilling and 2.11 for conventional practices.

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    This document discusses relay cropping, which involves planting the next crop after the flowering of the standing crop and before harvest. Specifically, it examines relay seeding wheat into standing cotton crops. It finds that relay seeding wheat yields higher wheat yields than conventional practices like hand drilling or broadcasting after cotton harvest. On average over four sites and two years, relay seeding yielded 4.91 tons/hectare of wheat compared to 4.52 tons/hectare for broadcasting and 3.93 tons/hectare for conventional practices. Relay seeding also had higher profitability, with a benefit-cost ratio of 3.15 compared to 2.61 for hand drilling and 2.11 for conventional practices.

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    Relay planting of wheat in cotton Dr G.S.Buttar Head Department of Agronomy P.A.U. Ludhiana

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    This document discusses relay cropping, which involves planting the next crop after the flowering of the standing crop and before harvest. Specifically, it examines relay seeding wheat into standing cotton crops. It finds that relay seeding wheat yields higher wheat yields than conventional practices like hand drilling or broadcasting after cotton harvest. On average over four sites and two years, relay seeding yielded 4.91 tons/hectare of wheat compared to 4.52 tons/hectare for broadcasting and 3.93 tons/hectare for conventional practices. Relay seeding also had higher profitability, with a benefit-cost ratio of 3.15 compared to 2.61 for hand drilling and 2.11 for conventional practices.

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    Dr G.S.Buttar Head Department of Agronomy P.A.U.

    Ludhiana

    Relay cropping
    Relay cropping is seeding or planting of

    succeeding crop after flowering and before the harvest of the standing crop. It is analogous to relay race where one crop hands over the land to the next crop in quick succession.

    Why Relay cropping ?


    In South Asia, cotton-wheat rotation is being followed on

    approximately 4.5 M ha area. The productivity of wheat sown after cotton is generally 0.5-1.0 t ha-1 less as compared to wheat sown after paddy. This is mainly due to delayed sowing of wheat due to late picking of cotton and subsequent tillage and field preparation operations for wheat planting.

    Newly Developed Prototype


    Clutches

    Seed box

    Fertilizer box

    Engine Separator

    Sowing wheat on date 11-11-09

    Farmer removing the cotton sticks

    Comparison of Relay & Conventional Crop

    Sowing on

    06-12-09

    11-11-09

    7.0 6.0 5.0 Yield (t/ha) 4.0 3.0 2.0 1.0 0.0 Site 1 Relay Seeder Hand drill Broad casting Conventional Site 2 Site 3 Site 4 Average yield (t/ha) 5.0 4.5 4.4 3.7

    Yield gain (t/ha) 1.3 0.8 0.7 0.0

    5.0 4.1 3.8 3.5

    6.1 5.9 5.6 3.3

    4.5 3.5 4.3 1.4

    4.3 4.5 3.9 4.3

    Yield Comparison of Relay Seeding of wheat in standing cotton

    Yield Comparison of Relay Seeding of wheat in standing cotton


    Net profit B:C Treatments Wheat grain yield ( t ha-1) Cost of -1 2009-10 2010-11 Mean cultivation (US$ ha ) ratio (US$ ha-1)

    T1 Relay seeding 4.97a 4.84a 4.91a 430 3.15 1353a T2 Hand drill 4.51a 4.51a 430 2.61 1123b T3 Broadcasting 4.39a 4.64a 4.52a 430 2.61 1124b T4 Conventional 3.52b 4.33b 3.93b 463 2.11 978c Within a column, means followed by the same letter are not significantly different at the 0.05 level of probability by the Duncans multiple range test (DMRT)

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