Integrated Nutrient Management Enhances Yield, Improves Soil Quality, and Conserves Energy under the Lowland Rice–Rice Cropping System
, Parveen Kumar 1,*, Tejasvi Bhagat 1, Arun Jyoti Nath 2, Kallakeri Kannappa Manohara 1, Bappa Das 1, Brijesh Fal Desai 1, Prakash Kumar Jha 3 and P. V. Vara Prasad 3,4Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Rice systerm is a very important topic for people around the world for its feeding the worldwide people.
In the abstract where you should mention the comparison base, let people easily know the advantage of integrated use of farmyard manure and chemical fertilizer.
More relating literatures should be incorperated and summarized into the introduction, where shoud point out the scientific problem. The current version may be too simple.
A loaction map should be included in the materials and method section.
Necessary ciations should be included in the method part. also the machine used for dertermining soil properties should be described in terms of type and manufacturer.
Soil quality indicators should be described detailly in the materials and methods section and the discussed detailly in terms of the changes between different applications
Author Response
We are grateful to the reviewer for thoroughly reviewing our manuscript and providing valuable suggestions. Your suggestions are useful to improve the quality of our manuscript. We have addressed all comments and suggestions of the reviewer and made changes to the manuscript and also provided a detailed point-to-point response in this letter.
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Reviewer 2 Report
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Comments for author File: Comments.pdf
Author Response
We are grateful to the reviewer for thoroughly reviewing our manuscript and providing valuable suggestions. Your suggestions are useful to improve the quality of our manuscript. We have addressed all comments and suggestions of the reviewer and made changes to the manuscript and also provided a detailed point-to-point response in this letter.
Please note that the reviewers’ comments are in bold blue text. Our responses are in black text. The line numbers provided in our response are according to the revised manuscript.
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