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CRP Dryland Systems - IWMI - 2015 Technical and Financial Report - Final
The International Water Management Institute (IWMI) managed to progress in 2015 in terms of researching on evidence for agricultural water management within the context of a systems approach. Water is one of the key enablers ...
Bhoosamrudhi: Improving Rural Livelihoods through Innovative Scaling-up of Science-led Participatory Research for Development_Progress Report
Progress Report of Bhoosamridhi is a flagship initiative to establish learning sites of scaling-up integrated and participatory research for development to benefit small and marginal farmers across four districts of Tumakuru, ...
Men and women were interacted for introducing potato in the system
A meeting was organized with 35 farmers of Maan Sagar to apprise them of the project on cultivating potato in their exiting cropping to generated more income to improve their livelihood. Women from farming families were ...
Demonstration of promising barley and kabuli chickpea varieties/technologies to enhance coping mechanism and achieving food security
Demonstration of promising barley and kabuli chickpea varieties/technologies to enhance coping mechanism and achieving food security in Rajasthan
Water and labour saving technologies by micro-irrigation and machineries, selection of farmers and appraisal of potato cultivation in system
In a meeting with stakeholders at Maan Sagar, the project aims such as advantages of adopting potato cultivation in cropping system in rotation with cereal, use of micro-irrigation to save water, improved production ...
Report on "Implementation of micro irrigation in dryland system": December 2015
The report is based on the piloting of drop irrigation with scheduled irrigation for improving the water use efficiency
Economics of new energy efficient methods with micro irrigation in dyrland system
The quantitative significance of the dryland agriculture is by no means small, even at their low
productivity levels (Shah et al., 1998). The drylands accounts for 53% of total cropped area,
48% of the area under food crops ...
Improving the livelihoods of dryland farmers through the introduction of potato cropping: a proposal based on detailed SWOT analysis
FAO has identified potato as a crop for ensuring future food security for the global poor,
particularly in the developing countries. Strength of this analysis was demonstrated in
India during 2003 and 2013 in terms of ...
Introduction and Expansion of Improved Pigeonpea (Arhar) Production Technology in Rainfed Upland Ecosystems of Odisha
While 70% of the population lives in the rainfed upland ecosystem of Odisha, around 85% of the
workforce depends on agriculture. There are about 8.7 million hectares of agricultural lands in
the state of which 70% are ...
Use and conservation of agrobiodiversity for increased agricultural sustainability, smallholder wellbeing and resilience to climate change in India - Andhra Pradesh
Because of large scale
industrialization, fast urbanization, mega hydraulic projects and surface road/rail network, many
of the natural ecosystems /habitats have been destroyed resulting in increased number of
endangered ...