%D 2015
%L icrisat9714
%O 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.
%I Indian National Science Academy
%T Agro-Eco Sub region Based Crop Planning in the Black Soil Regions and Indo-Gangetic Plains – Application of Soil Information System
%P 1151-1170
%V 81
%N 05
%A T Bhattacharyya
%A C Mandal
%A D K Mandal
%A J Prasad
%A P Tiwary
%A M V Venugopalan
%A D K Pal
%R 10.16943/ptinsa/2015/v81i5/48335
%J Proceedings of the Indian National Science Academy
%X 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.
%K Agro-Ecological Sub-Regions, AESRs, Georeferenced soil information system, Black Soil Region, Indo-Gangetic Plains, Land Resource Manager, Resource Management, GeoSIS, IGP, BSR, Cropping Systems