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The food needs of a growing world population (9.7 billion people by 2050) demand 60-100% more food production from agriculture (Ali et al., 2024; Win et al., 2025). This productivity gain is a great challenge in the present scenario where climate change, rapid degradation of land, exhaustion of natural resources, and soil organic matter are … Read more

Modern agriculture faces the challenge of securing food and nutritional security for a fast-growing world population (Verma et al., 2022; Zulfiqar et al., 2019). Population pressure, together with shrinking arable land, scarce freshwater and climate change, has led to excessive use of synthetic agrochemicals (Verma et al., 2022; Bhardwaj et al., 2022). Synthetic N, P … Read more

Traditional crop production intensive use of bulk mineral fertilizers such as prilled urea and conventional diammonium phosphate (DAP) is due to the macro-element requirement of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) (Chamuah et al., 2023a; Saud et al., 2022). Bulk fertilizers have established themselves as a means to ensure food security worldwide, but their overuse and … Read more

Weeds constitute an important component of vegetation associated with human-managed ecosystems. They occur naturally in crop fields, fallow land, roadsides, gardens, grazing areas, wetlands and other disturbed habitats. In conventional agriculture, a weed is generally defined as a plant growing where it is not wanted. Such plants compete with cultivated species for nutrients, water, sunlight … Read more

Climate change, soil fertility decline, land degradation, water scarcity, high production costs and inefficient utilisation of agricultural inputs are increasingly creating challenges for agricultural production. These difficulties pose risks to future productivity and sustainability of agricultural systems and have increased the need for resource-efficient and environmentally friendly agricultural production. Pulse crops play an important role … Read more