Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences http://www.jebas.org ISSN No. 2320 – 8694 Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences, June - 2017; Volume – 5(3) CROPPING SYSTEM ANALYSIS FOR AGRICULTURAL SUSTAINABILITY – PRODUCTIVITY, ECONOMY, ECOLOGY AND ENERGY USE EFFICIENCY Benukar Biswas Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Mohanpur, Nadia, West Bengal, India 741252 Received – February 28, 2017; Revision – April 14, 2017; Accepted – June 05, 2017 Available Online – June 30, 2017 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18006/2017.5(3).294.301 ABSTRACT Field experiment was conducted during 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 at the Zonal Adaptive Research Station, Krishnagar, Nadia, West Bengal to find out alternative remunerative cropping systems in comparison to existing rice-rice and rice-wheat system through crop diversification and intensification in the Eastern Gangetic plain. Result of study revealed that the productivity of different cropping systems was in the order of jute – potato – rice > rice – potato – rice> rice – potato – sesame > jute – rapeseed – rice > jute – rice – rice > rice – rapeseed – rice > jute – wheat > rice – rice > rice – wheat. Further, results of study suggest that jute – potato – rice, rice – potato – rice and rice – potato – sesame are suitable for large and medium farmers but these systems have higher energy productive at the cost of higher consumption resulting lower energy productivity. Moreover, for small and marginal farmers Jute – wheat and jute – rapeseed – rice cropping system considered suitable because of their moderate cost of production and net return. . KEYWORDS Cropping system Economics Energetics Pest incidence Productivity * Corresponding author E-mail: kripahi@yahoo.com(Benukar Biswas) Peer review under responsibility of Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences. All the article published by Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License Based on a work at www.jebas.org. Production and Hosting by Horizon Publisher India [HPI] (http://www.horizonpublisherindia.in/). All rights reserved.