TY  - JOUR
AV  - public
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.16943/ptinsa/2015/v81i5/48335
IS  - 05
PB  - Indian National Science Academy
TI  - Agro-Eco Sub region Based Crop Planning in the Black Soil Regions and Indo-Gangetic Plains ? Application of Soil Information System
A1  - Bhattacharyya, T
A1  - Mandal, C
A1  - Mandal, D K
A1  - Prasad, J
A1  - Tiwary, P
A1  - Venugopalan, M V
A1  - Pal, D K
N1  - We acknowledge the financial assistance by National
Agricultural Innovation Project (NAIP) through the
Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi
which partially funded this work.
SN  - 0370-0046
VL  - 81
N2  - Agro-Ecological Sub-Regions (AESRs) of the country were conceptualized using limited soil data and accordingly a map
was generated way back in 1994. The present paper revisits the AESR concept to revise this map with the help of georeferenced
soil information system (GeoSIS) recently developed at the sub-country levels of the Black Soil Region (BSR)
and the Indo-Gangetic Plains (IGP). GeoSIS has been proved to be an excellent tool in successful application of Agro-
Ecological Sub Regions (AESRs) at the regional and national levels. This novel approach could narrow the knowledge gap
in revising the soil and agro-management technologies, used in dry land agriculture for productivity enhancement with
special reference to the BSR dominated by cotton and soybean cropping systems. For the IGP, similar approach was used
for the rice-wheat cropping systems. Revised AESR map identifies the areas under different level of productivity of these
four important crops of two major food-growing regions of the country. The identified areas in the form of thematic maps
shall help the planners and land resource managers to prioritize areas for resource management.
SP  - 1151
Y1  - 2015/12//
EP  - 1170
ID  - icrisat9714
KW  - Agro-Ecological Sub-Regions
KW  -  AESRs
KW  -  Georeferenced soil information system
KW  -  Black Soil Region
KW  -  Indo-Gangetic Plains
KW  -  Land Resource Manager
KW  -  Resource Management
KW  -  GeoSIS
KW  -  IGP
KW  -  BSR
KW  -  Cropping Systems
JF  - Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy
ER  -