Dr. Shivani is the Principal Scientist at ICAR Research Complex for Eastern Region in Patna, Bihar.
Crop diversification is one of the new paradigm of sustainable agriculture. it is not only a shift from traditional and less remunerative crop to more remunerative crop but also need based situation specific, demand driven and dynamic concept which involves spatial, temporal, value addition and resource complementary approaches. Diversification of rice-wheat cropping system in different agro-ecosystem has been found more productive as well as profitable which step forward towards sustainability and nutritional security in the present situation.