edited by Rattan Lal,
Peter Hobbs, Norman Uphoff
and David O. Hansen

Addressing a topic of major importance to the maintenance of world food supplies, this reference identifies knowledge gaps, defines priorities, and formulates recommendations for the improvement of the rice–wheat farming system—revealing new systems of rice intensification and management while illustrating the application of no-till and conservation farming to the rice–wheat system with case studies from India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Partial Contents

• Prospects of world agriculture in the 21st century
• Soil and water resources of South Asia in an uncertain climate
• Food security and environmental sustainability
• Historical development of no-till farming
• Agroecological thoughts on zero tillage: Possibilities for improving both crop components of rice-wheat farming systems with rice intensification
• Problems and challenges of no-till farming for the rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic Plains in South Asia
• Opportunities and constraints for reduced tillage practices in the rice-wheat cropping system
• No-tillage farming in the rice-wheat cropping system in India
• No-till option for the rice-wheat cropping system in the Indo-Gangetic Plains of India
• Principles and practices of tillage systems for rice-wheat cropping systems in the Indo Gangetic Plains of South Asia
• No-till in the rice-wheat system: An experience from Nepal
• Impact of no-till farming on wheat production and resource conservation in the rice-wheat zone of Punjab, Pakistan
• Impact of no-till farming on the rice-wheat system in Bangladesh

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