Insights on Popularizing Fruit-based Cropping System: An Alternate for Better Livelihood in Salt-affected Indian Sundarbans Deltas
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SAYAN SAU
Purba Medinipur Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Vishwavidyalaya Nandakumar Purba Medinipur - 721 632, West Bengal, India
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SUKAMAL SARKAR
Division of Agronomy, School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Narendrapur Campus, Kolkata - 700 103, West Bengal, India
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ANANNYA DHAR
Division of Agronomy, School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Educational and Research Institute, Narendrapur Campus, Kolkata - 700 103, West Bengal, India
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PALLAB DATTA
Department of Fruits and Orchard Management, Faculty of Horticulture, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur - 741 252, West Bengal, India
Keywords:
Indian Sundarbans Delta, Livelihood, Coastal salinity, Natural resource management, Fruit, MangroveAbstract
The Indian Sundarbans Delta (ISD) is part of the delta of the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) basin in
Asia. Typically, in the delta region rain-fed, single-crop agriculture and fishing are the two main sources
of livelihood. The dominant crop grown in this area is the local transplanted Aman rice crop with low
yields and some short-duration vegetables. High soil and water salinity, impact of climatic changes, and
frequent occurrence of natural calamities aggravate the situation making agricultural crop cultivation
challenging in ISD. Fruit plant-based cropping systems may be considered in ISD as one of the effective
alternative cropping options that combat problems of soil and climatic factors with minimum loss and
give more than one option to generate income besides their plenty of ecological and other benefits. To
date, commendable research work in this area is lacking particularly in ISD which is gifted with wider crop
diversity where many important and minor fruit crops are adapted to saline and sodic conditions along
with indigenous mangrove plants that bear fruit with immense ethnobotanical uses. Upon realizing this
context, the present review was framed taking help from an extensive groundwork of different researchers
working on possibilities, difficulties, and advanced strategies for the successful establishment of fruit-based
cropping systems in different saline tracts.
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