Evaluation of Agronomic Management Practices on Farmers’ Fields under Rice-Wheat Cropping System in Northern India

Table 4

Economics of rice-wheat system under different agronomic management practices (pooled data of four years).

Agronomic management practices	Rice equivalent yield of the system (kg/ha)	System productivity (kg/ha/day)	Cost of cultivation ($/ha)	Net returns ($/ha)	Gross returns ($/ha)	Incremental net returns ($/ha)	B : C ratio	Sustainability index
T1	7311	20.0	670	976	1675	—	1.39	0.82
T2	7841	21.5	722	1076	1798	101	1.49	0.86
T3	8535	23.4	752	1222	1974	246	1.62	0.88
T4	9583	26.3	790	1402	2192	426	1.77	0.81
SEm	—	—	3	22	24	—	—	—
cd at 5%	—	—	10	62	69	—	—	—