ABSTRACT
The resource conservation technologies is primarily focused on resource savings through minimal tillage, ensuring soil nutrients and moisture conservation through crop residues and growth of cover crops, and adoption of spatial and temporal crop sequencing. These practices have long been practised by the farmers in the Indo Gangetic Plains (IGP) but it got eroded in recent times due to various geo-socio economic- political reasons. Like, rotary tillage sowing of wheat, majority of farmers reported saving of time under zero tillage. Crop residues are the parts or portion of a plant or crop left in the field after harvest or that part of the crop which is not used domestically or sold commercially or discarded during processing. Direct seeded rice provides a viable option for saving of labour as well as irrigation requirement, according to Pandey and Velasco, low wages and adequate availability of water favour transplanting, whereas high wages and low water availability favour direct seeded rice in IGPs.
