Sushil Pandey

TL;DR: In this article, a microeconomic analysis of adoption of contour hedgerows by upland farmers in the Philippines is conducted to identify the factors that determine adoption, and the empirical results show that adoption depends on several farm and farmer characteristics and the relative importance of these factors differs across sites.

TL;DR: The study showed that the current local fertilizer recommendations, particularly for K, for the rice-rice-wheat system are inadequate, and depletion of soil K and inadequate K fertilization seems to be the primary reasons of limited and declining yield of first rice and wheat crop.

TL;DR: In this article, the economic costs of drought and rice farmers' coping mechanisms were analyzed using time series and farm survey data from China, India and Thailand, and the economic cost was estimated to be 2-6% of the value of output.

TL;DR: Soil analyses of the past 6 years showed that treatments receiving organic sources of nutrients increased total soil C and N from 18% to 62% and 15% to 48%, respectively, compared with the NPK treatment, which showed that the grain yield of rice and wheat was maintained over the years.

TL;DR: A workshop on direct seeding in Asian rice systems: Strategic issues and opportunities was organized by IRRI, together with the Rice Research Institute, Thailand, in 2000 as mentioned in this paper, to assess the likely future patterns of change in crop establishment in various ecosystems and regions, and identify strategic research issues for improving rice productivity by manipulating crop establishment methods and related factors.