Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems under Conservation Agriculture Practices: Impact on Yield, Productivity and Profitability of Wheat

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The manuscript is well-written will-organized. Discussing a very important issue related to the development of suitable cropping system to grow major crops like wheat and rice in a deep explanation and comprehensive review of the collected articles. The literature used are relevant to the subject of the manuscript and recent.  Minor comments are in the text of the attchment are important to be considerd.

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Author Response

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to submit a revised draft of the manuscript “Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems under Conservation Agriculture Practices: Impact on Yield, Productivity and Profitability of Wheat” for publication in the Sustainability Journal. We appreciate the time and efforts that you and the reviewers dedicated to providing feedback on our manuscript and are grateful for the insightful comments on and valuable improvements to our paper. We have incorporated all the suggestions made by the reviewers. Those changes are  using track change within the manuscript.

I am overwhelmed and greatful for the appreciation and postive response, that you have given for the manuscript.

Please see below for a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments and concerns in attached file. 

 

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Reviewer 2 Report

Dear authors, I really obtained enjoy from your paper with very interesting for me information on sustainable intensification of cropping systems under conservation agriculture practices with quantitative assessment of their impact on yield, productivity and profitability of wheat.

At the same time, I have to say that Figures 1, 3 and 4 could be easier for fast understanding in case of their larger scale. Tables 2 and 4 could be clearer for their system analysis in case of presence of the short structured vocabular description of the scenarios plus or instead of their abbreviation by cipher (size of pages allows to do this even with using some additional columns). And finally, it makes sense to use in “Discussion” and especially “Conclusions” chapters not only scenarios numbers but their principal agroecological/agrotechnological features description.

I believe these small improvements would give this manuscript better recognition by its future readers.

Author Response

Respected   Reviewer

 

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to submit a revised draft of the manuscript “Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems under Conservation Agriculture Practices: Impact on Yield, Productivity and Profitability of Wheat” for publication in the Sustainability Journal. We appreciate the time and efforts that you and the reviewers dedicated to providing feedback on our manuscript and are grateful for the insightful comments on and valuable improvements to our paper. We have carefully check and corrected our manuscript based on the comments of native speaker. Further Dr. Kaushik has also carefully checked the manuscript and corrected as per your suggestions.Those changes are using track change within the manuscript.

I am greatful and overwhelmed after receiving such positive response. Thankful for the act of appreciation from your end . 

PFA for a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments and concerns.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

I have gone through the whole manuscript. Unfortunately I didn't find any line number in the manuscript to make specific comments. But there are lots of typos and grammartical errors throughout the manusscript. The figures of the manuscript are not readable. The manuscript need a thorough revision before getting acceptance from any reputed journals.

Thanks.

Reviewer

Author Response

Respected   Reviewer

 

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to submit a revised draft of the manuscript “Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems under Conservation Agriculture Practices: Impact on Yield, Productivity and Profitability of Wheat” for publication in the Sustainability Journal. We appreciate the time and efforts that you and the reviewers dedicated to providing feedback on our manuscript and are grateful for the insightful comments on and valuable improvements to our paper. We have carefully check and corrected our manuscript based on the comments of native speaker. Further Dr. Kaushik has also carefully checked the manuscript and corrected as per your suggestions. Those changes are using track change within the manuscript.

I am grateful and overwhelmed after receiving such a positive response. Thankful for the act of appreciation from your end. 

PFA for a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments and concerns.

Author Response File: Author Response.docx

Round 2

Reviewer 3 Report

Dear Authors,

Thank you so much for your revision. You improve a lot. However, still I identify few issues that should be addressed before final decision:

[1] I didn't find the treatments name in your abstract. As sometimes the abstract published separately from the manuscript that's why you should have to add them.

[2] It's better to avoid symbol from abstract. 

[3] Please draw the vertical line for Y-axis in Figure 1

 

Thanks                       

Author Response

Manuscript: sustainability-2190912

Subject: Response to Comments from Reviewers

Respected   Reviewer

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to submit a revised draft of the manuscript “Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems under Conservation Agriculture Practices: Impact on Yield, Productivity and Profitability of Wheat” for publication in the Sustainability Journal. We appreciate the time and efforts that you and the reviewers dedicated to providing feedback on our manuscript and are grateful for the insightful comments on and valuable improvements to our paper. We have carefully check and corrected our manuscript based on the comments of native speaker. Further Dr. Kaushik has also carefully checked the manuscript and corrected as per your suggestions. Those changes are using track change within the manuscript.

I am grateful and overwhelmed after receiving such a positive response. Thankful for the act of appreciation from your end. 

PFA for a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments and concerns.

 

Reviewer 3

Comment 1: I didn't find the treatments name in your abstract. As sometimes the abstract published separately from the manuscript that's why you should have to add them.

Response: As per your suggestion, we accepted and included all the comments and also we have carefully check and added treatments name in the abstract, and corrected our manuscript based on your comments

Comment 2: It's better to avoid symbol from abstract. 

Response: Corrected as per your suggestions

Comment 3: Please draw the vertical line for Y-axis in Figure 1

Response:  Corrected as per your suggestions and draw the vertical line for Y-axis in Figure 1 in the manuscript.

Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 3

Reviewer 3 Report

Authors failed to improve the manuscript to publish in Sustainability. 

Author Response

Manuscript: sustainability-2190912

Subject: Response to Comments from Reviewers

 

Respected   Reviewer

 

Thank you for giving us an opportunity to submit a revised draft of the manuscript “Sustainable Intensification of Cropping Systems under Conservation Agriculture Practices: Impact on Yield, Productivity and Profitability of Wheat” for publication in the Sustainability Journal. We have carefully check and corrected our manuscript based on the comments of native speaker. Further Dr. Kaushik has also carefully checked the manuscript and corrected as per your suggestions. Those changes are using track change within the manuscript.

I am grateful and overwhelmed after receiving such a positive response. Thankful for the act of appreciation from your end. 

PFA for a point-by-point response to the reviewers’ comments and concerns.

 

Reviewer 3

Comment 1: I didn't find the treatments name in your abstract. As sometimes the abstract published separately from the manuscript that's why you should have to add them.

Response: As per your suggestion, we accepted and included all the comments and also we have carefully check and added treatments name in the abstract, and corrected our manuscript based on your comments

Comment 2: It's better to avoid symbol from abstract. 

Response: Corrected as per your suggestions and deleted the symbol in abstract

Comment 3: Please draw the vertical line for Y-axis in Figure 1

Response:  Corrected as per your suggestions and draw the vertical line for Y-axis in Figure 1 in the manuscript.