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Improving agricultural water productivity in the Indira Gandhi Nahar Pariyojana (IGNP)
ICARDA and CAZRI have recently concluded a 6-year research study on investigation of avenues to
improve agricultural water productivity in the INGP canal command area. The study was conducted in
stages I and I I of the ...
Evaluation of CropSyst model for yield and water productivity of isabgol
India grows a large variety of medicinal plants. The most popular of them are isabgol, guggul, aswagandha, sarpgandha, satavri, tulsi etc. The healthiest part of isabgol are seeds which are used in medicine with or without ...
Pastoral Land Use and Grazing Measurement through Remotely Sensed Data
About 60 percent of the world's pasture land (about 2.2 million sq km), just less than half the world's usable surface is covered by grazing systems. These are distributed between arid, semi arid and sub humid, humid, ...
Role of high-value, small-scale agricultural production in generating higher livelihoods for farm women in arid region of Rajasthan
India has been a predominantly an agrarian economy since time immemorial. Majority of the population is depending on agriculture & agriculture is the mainstay of national economy even today. Even though, agricultural ...
Improving a Transhumance Livestock System of India with Modern Technologies
Traditional livestock rearing systems in grasslands evolved in response to social, climatic, vegetative and technological conditions that existed scores, hundreds, or in some cases thousands of years ago. Many of these ...
Performance of cropSyst simulation model for groundnut –wheat cropping system in IGNP stage –II
Simulation models are an important tool to understand soil-plant interactions on water balance components and their effects on crop growth and land productivity. Comparted to field experiments, the use of crop models to ...
Performance assessment of CropSyst model for yield and nitrogen uptake and water use of crops in hot arid north western Rajasthan
The crop yield and water productivity is a complex indicator because it can be ascribed mainly to agro-techniques, plant factors, and environment. Appropriate crop management strategies to improve yield and water productivity ...
Yield returns and water productivity of cropping system in hot arid north western Rajasthan
Assessing yield, returns and water productivity of crops and cropping systems under existing agro-climatic, crop management and socio-economic conditions prevailing in a region are prerequisite to develop and/or identify ...