_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Corresponding author: E-mail: khatiyanr@gmail.com; International Journal of Plant & Soil Science 34(22): 1640-1647, 2022; Article no.IJPSS.90857 ISSN: 2320-7035 Monitoring of Soil Properties and Crop Performance (Rice) under Different Rice-based Cropping Systems Pravendra Kumar Pathak a , Robin Kumar a* , Pragati Pandey a , Rajat Singh a , Kishan Mishra a , Nitesh Kumar Gangwar a and Atul Kumar Verma a a Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture & Technology, Kumarganj, Ayodhya-224229, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/IJPSS/2022/v34i2231543 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/90857 Received 14 June 2022 Accepted 24 August 2022 Published 13 September 2022 ABSTRACT An experiment on rice-based cropping systems to monitor the soil properties and crop performance (Rice) was conducted at Agronomy Research Farm in Acharya Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj (Ayodhya, U.P.) during 2020-21 in Complete Randomized Block Design with seven treatments and three replications. Seven cropping patterns viz; rice- wheat-fallow, rice-wheat-green gram, rice-frenchbean-green gram, rice-berseem-sudan chari, rice- cauliflower-okra, rice-potato-cowpea, rice-mustard-green gram were compared with rice-rice cropping pattern. The cropping systems were evaluated for their productivity & to assess their effect on the soil properties like soil pH, EC, organic carbon contents, soil organic matter, and available soil NPK. The results revealed that the green manuring and leguminous cropping patterns gave higher paddy yield as compared to the commonly practiced rice-rice cropping pattern. The maximum yield of rice (43.15q/ha) was obtained from a rice-mustard-green gram cropping pattern which was comparatively higher than those of a rice-rice cropping pattern. As regards the cost- benefit ratio, the highest ratio was received in the case of the rice-mustard-green gram (1:1.77) cropping system followed by the rice-frenchbean- green gram (1:1.65) and rice-wheat-green gram (1:1.52) as against the existing cropping system rice-rice. The results further indicated that the introduction of green manuring or leguminous crops in the existing rice-wheat system increased grain yields and improved the physio-chemical properties, organic matter contents, and nutrient availability in the soil. Soil pH lowered from 8.3 to 7.97 and organic carbon increased from 0.38 % to 0.39 %. Original Research Article