INNOVATIVE FARMING PRACTICES AND THEIR EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF CROPSOF MALWA REGION

A field experiment was conducted At All India Coordinated Research Project on Integrated Farming System, College of Agriculture, Indore during the kharif and rabi season 2016-17and 2017-18 with the objective to find out the effect of methods of tillage, nutrient management and mulch practices on growth and yield of different crops and cropping system and their effect on economic viability as well as find out the best treatment combination for higher yield and profitability. Experiment was laid out in split plot design with three replication and total thirty two treatment combinations was done. On the basis of result obtained from the experiment it is concluded that SEY (grain)4920kgha-1, gross return (₹201831), net return (₹141696) and benefit cost ratio (6.70), gave significantly higher values in CS2 (soybean +maize-wheat) of soybean in kharif and wheat in rabi. Among the different treatments T1(minimum tillage), F2 the application of 75% RDF + 25% vermi-compost),M2(with mulch).