Integrated Nutrient Management on Growth, Yield, Nutrient Uptake and Fertility Balance in Soybean (Glycine max L.) – Wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) Cropping Sequence

The maximum cost involvement in cereal–cereal crop rotation has created constraints for labour, inputs supply and net income. Use of inadequate water and chemical fertilizers have led to problem of soil degradation under this system. The continuous growing of rice has led to a deterioration in soil quality, resulting in a serious threat to agricultural sustainability. Therefore, crop diversification with a wider choice in the production of crop varieties is being promoted in different parts of the country (Jat et al., 2012). Considering these issues as a threat to sustainable and profitable agriculture attempt is being made to discover some alternative in the region (Bhatt et al., 2016). Both wheat and rice crops are grown under lavish environment. The green crops with higher dose of N-fertilizers and wet conditions because of frequent irrigations are the paradise for the outbreak of insect-pest and diseases (Saroch et al., 2005). Diversification of rice-wheat cropping system may improve