Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 32
CRP Dryland Systems - ICRISAT - 2015 Technical and Financial Report - Final
The research for development efforts at DS sites in India used multi-disciplinary and systems approaches that build on the indigenous coping and adaptation strategies to achieve enhanced resilient and sustainable intensification ...
Identifying pearl millet varieties with high iron content
108 pearl millet varieties were profiled for Fe content. High and varied estimates were got with 53% of the varieties recording Fe content values of 50 ppm and above considered as high to qualify release and 21% recording ...
Innovation platforms as vehicle to strengthen stakeholders’ capacity to innovate for improved livelihoods in drylands in Asia and Sub Saharan Africa
Agriculture is the engine for poverty reduction and economic development in the developing nations. The sector employs over 50% of the population in South Asia (SA) and Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) and contributes significantly ...
Scaling the Innovative Post-rainy Sorghum ‘Seed Consortium’ for higher adoption and impacts (VNMKV) Final Technical Report
Based on the objective of the project, a group meeting was conducted with regional manager & District MSSC, Parbhani and farmers from Manoli, Gava village on 12/09/2018 at Sorghum Research Station, VNMKV, Parbhani. Certified ...
The NBeG47 Chickpea Variety, Mechanical Harvesting, and Gender in Rural India
With a growing population of over 1.3 billion people, India will need to intensify agricultural production to meet growing nutritional demands; it is particularly important to increase the productivity of pulse crops, which ...
Genotyping of 10000 individuals annually to make early generation selection decisions
Genotyping for FAD mutant alleles was initially done using allele-specific (AS-PCR) and cleaved amplified polymorphic sequence (CAPS) markers for detection of heterozygotes and homozygotes, respectively (Janila et al., ...
Gender preferred dual purpose crops with laboratory evidence
Working document on gender preference on crops along with evidence from laboratories for food-feed traits.
Potential of Small Ruminants in Andhra Pradesh for promoting rural livelihoods: Institutional and policy gaps to be addressed
Small ruminants play an important role in the food and nutritional security of millions of rural people
especially the landless, marginal and small farmers in rainfed regions in India as well as in Andhra
Pradesh. The ...
Scaling Up Sustainable Land Management and Restoration of Degraded Land
With current rates of land degradation reaching
ten to twelve million ha per year, there is an
urgent need to scale up and out successful,
profitable and resource-efficient sustainable
land management practices to maintain ...
Improved crop productivity and rural livelihoods through balanced nutrition in the rainfed semi-arid tropics
Diagnostic soil analysis in targeted clusters of eight districts in Andhra Pradesh revealed critical deficiencies of sulphur (61 to 98%),
boron (23 to 98%) and zinc (45 to 85%) in addition to that of soil carbon (25 to ...