International Journal of Drug Delivery Technology
Volume 16, Issue 2s

Assessing The Impact Of Sustainable Agricultural Practices On Soil Health And Crop Productivity In Changing Climatic Conditions

Dr Shashank Dattatray Kulkarni1*, Dr. Hrideshwer Gupta2, Ranibai M3, Dr. Sonali Kumari4, Dr. Ashwani Kumar Tyagi5, Dr. Harshita Negi6, Harmohan Singh Yadav7

1*Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi
2D. Litt. (Economics) Research Scholar, Bir Tikendrajit University, Manipur (India)
Orcid id: 0009-0005-9212-1188
3Assistant Professor, Department of Zoology, Karnatak Art's Science and Commerce, Science College Bidar, India
4Assistant Professor, Agriculture Engineering, Teerthanker Mahaveer College of Agriculture Sciences, TMU Moradabad-244102, India
ORCID ID: 0009-0002-2932-9320
5Associate Professor, Genetics and Plant Breeding, IIMT UNIVERSITY Ganaga Nagar, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh 250001
ORCID ID: 000000016591
6Assistant Professor, School of Agriculture, Graphic Era Hill University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, 248002
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-4634-4303
7Associate Professor, School of Agriculture, Department of Soil Science and Agricultural Chemistry, Lovely Professional University Jalandhar, Punjab 144411

ABSTRACT

Sustainable farming is necessary to sustain the fertility of the soil and long-term food security. In India, continuous depletion of the nutrients of the soil through the impact of imbalanced application of fertilisers and unsustainable management is further affected by climatic variability, especially the change in rainfall. The research paper examines the interaction between agriculture and rainfall and the nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium contents of the soils in the Indian districts. The analysis combines the indicators of soil, management, and climate based on district-level data of the Input Survey, Crop data and rainfall data of the CDSP Rainfall data, to analyse the interactions of the factors. Descriptive statistics show that the nutrient distributions are highly skewed, with a number of the districts having low levels of Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Potassium (NPK). Fertiliser quantity has a weak positive correlation, and regression analysis indicates that soil nitrogen has a weak positive relationship, and HYV cultivation has a marginal negative relationship. There is little direct effect of rain on the nutrient levels, though in high levels of precipitation, low amounts of leaching are evident. The general weak explanatory power of the models suggests the influence of other, unobserved variables, including the soil type and organic carbon. The results highlight the importance of combined nutrient management and more substantial datasets to aid climate-resilient agricultural planning.

Keywords: Sustainable agriculture, Soil nutrients (NPK), Fertiliser management, Rainfall variability, HYV adoption, Soil health assessment, Climate–soil interactions.

How to cite this article: Kulkarni SD, Gupta H, M R, Kumari S, Tyagi AK, Negi H, Yadav HS, Assessing The Impact Of Sustainable Agricultural Practices On Soil Health And Crop Productivity In Changing Climatic Conditions. Int J Drug Deliv Technol. 2026;16(2s): 890-896; DOI: 10.25258/ijddt.16.890-896