Wear mechanism in agriculture tools and studies on soil tools interaction in drylands

Abstract

Agricultural partnership between US and India, to achieve global food security was announced during November, 2010 during the state visit of US President Mr. Barak Obama to India in November 2010. Thereof a MoU signed on India-US trilateral cooperation with Africa to address the food security challenge by adapting technological advances and innovative solutions. Initially as a pilot scheme, National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE), Hyderabad and National Institute of Agricultural Marketing (NIAM), Jaipur conducted 7 program in training of 219 executives from Kenya, Liberia and Malawi. Based on the impact assessment suggesting extremely successful and overwhelming response, it was considered to further extend the program to African and Asian countries. Accordingly, USAID and Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), India identified additional countries among those involved in GOI-supported development programs and redefined the program as Feed the Future-India Triangular Training Program (FTF-ITT) and was launched on 25th July, 2016. Subsequently, 17 such countries partner from Africa and Asia were considered. Those include Afghanistan, Cambodia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Mongolia, Vietnam, Botswana (Asian countries) and Kenya, Malawi, Liberia, Ghana, Uganda, Rwanda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania & Sudan (African countries), It was envisaged that during the program period till 2020, approximately 1400 agricultural professionals from these countries will be trained with skill enhancement. The modus operandi of this program include conducting of 32 such training program on various aspect of agricultural development and livelihood security at selected Indian Institutions and each training program shall include 25 participants. The course module mostly focused on the themes for which Indian institutions of repute has demonstrated the comparative expertise that could effectively contribute in enhancement of human capital on agricultural development and livelihood security to the target countries’ existing human resource capacity. The MANAGE, Hyderabad is implementing this program in collaboration with various Subject Matter Institutions. Accordingly, the MANAGE, identified Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR-CRIDA) as a potential institute to impart training on one of the 5 important theme of “Strategies for Enhancement of Farmers Income in Dryland Agriculture”. Thus MANAGE requested ICAR-CRIDA to organize one 15-days international training program for 22 international executives representing partner countries from Africa and Asia. In view of above, the present international training had been conducted in accordance with standard operating procedure for implementation of FTF-ITT as devised by MANAGE, Hyderabad