Intensified seed spices-based cropping systems for higher productivity, resource-use efficiency, soil fertility and profitability in arid and semi-arid regions of India

• Narendra Chaudhary ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Narendra Chaudhary, Shiv Lal, Ravindra Singh, M. D. Meena

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ncfls1983@gmail.com

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

  https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6036-1286

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• Shiv Lal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Narendra Chaudhary, Shiv Lal, Ravindra Singh, M. D. Meena

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• Ravindra Singh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Narendra Chaudhary, Shiv Lal, Ravindra Singh, M. D. Meena

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• M. D. Meena ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Narendra Chaudhary, Shiv Lal, Ravindra Singh, M. D. Meena

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• S. S. Meena ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ SSM, RDM, CKJ, VB and AS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• R. D. Meena ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ SSM, RDM, CKJ, VB and AS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• C. K. Jangir ,

  Roles Investigation, Validation, Writing – original draft

  ¶‡ SSM, RDM, CKJ, VB and AS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• V. Bhardwaj ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SSM, RDM, CKJ, VB and AS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Indian Council of Agricultural Research-National Research Centre on Seed Spices, Ajmer, Rajasthan, India

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• Asheesh Sharma

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SSM, RDM, CKJ, VB and AS also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation College of Agriculture, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Narmadapuram, Madhya Pradesh, India

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