{"id":22180,"date":"2024-04-05T11:21:53","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T05:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22180"},"modified":"2025-04-06T17:58:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T12:28:15","slug":"paira-cropping-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/paira-cropping-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Paira Cropping System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Paira\u00a0cropping system:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The utera\/paira is a type of cropping which is commonly practiced in Bihar, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal\u00a0Chhattisgarh\u00a0and Odisha.<\/li>\n<li>It is a kind of\u00a0<strong>relay method<\/strong>\u00a0of sowing in which lentil\/ lathyrus\/ urdbean\/ mungbean seeds are broadcast in the standing crop of rice about 2\u00a0weeks\u00a0before its harvest.<\/li>\n<li>This system does not allow agronomic intervention such as\u00a0<strong>tillage, weeding, irrigation and fertilizer<\/strong>\u00a0However, rice variety decides the productivity of pulses in this system.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Advantages:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>This practice\u00a0enables us to use\u00a0<strong>better soil moisture<\/strong>\u00a0available at the time of harvesting of rice\u00a0crops, which could otherwise be lost quickly.<\/li>\n<li>Experimental\u00a0evidence\u00a0showed that paira cropping produced\u00a0<strong>more yield<\/strong>\u00a0of lentil than planting with tillage after harvesting of the rice crop.<\/li>\n<li>This is an efficient way of\u00a0<strong>utilising resources for sustainable<\/strong>\u00a0crop intensification and boosting land productivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What is the Relay cropping method?<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is\u00a0a method of\u00a0multiple cropping\u00a0where\u00a0<strong>one crop is seeded<\/strong>\u00a0into\u00a0<strong>standing second crop<\/strong>\u00a0well before harvesting of second crop.<\/li>\n<li>It can solve a number of conflicts such as inefficient use of available resources, controversies in sowing time, fertilizer application and soil degradation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Intercropping?<\/h3>\n<p>It is the practice of growing two or more crops in proximity. The most common goal of intercropping is to produce a greater yield on a given piece of land by making effective use of resources without affecting the yield of the main crop.<\/p>\n<p>Source :\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/blog\/agriculture\/how-odisha-is-promoting-climate-resilient-agriculture-through-rice-fallow-initiative-95363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">How Odisha is promoting climate-resilient agriculture through rice fallow initiative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paira cropping system is a type of cropping which is commonly practiced in Bihar, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal Chattisgarh and Odisha.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22181,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}