Efficacy of organically managed cropping system in improvement of soil health in NE hill region

Field experiments were conducted during the kharif seasons of 2015 and 2016 to evaluate the efficacy of the organically managed cropping system in improvement of soil health in NE hill region. Four combinations of two cropping systems (C), viz., rice-greengram (C1) and maize-greengram (C2) and two organic N management treatments (N), viz., 75 % RD through vermicompost (N1) and 100 % RD through vermicompost (N2) and two organic phosphorus management treatments (P) viz., 75 % RD through vermicompost (P1) and 100 % RD through vermicompost (P2), which was applied to succeeding crop of greengram after the main kharif crops, were evaluated under the trial in split plot design.