Productivity and economics of different wheat (Triticum aestivum) based cropping sequences

A field study was carried out for three years at the experimental farm of t he Directorate of Wheat Research, Karnal to compare the productivity and ec onomics of six important wheat based cropping sequences. Among the crop seq uences tried, the most remunerative crop sequence was the one where Pusa Ba smati were grown during kharif and wheat during rabi season with and withou t green manuring in one year crop rotation followed by the sequences where a crop of berseem was included during rabi or soybean and Pusa Basmati were grown during kharif in two-year rotation. Maize-wheat rotation gave the lo west average returns and the least profit. In basmati rice-wheat sequence, on an average about 85% net return was contributed by basmati rice and only 15% by wheat. Among the crops, the most remunerative was basmati rice foll owed by berseem, soybean and last profitable was maize.