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Title: | Organic Sesame Production |
Other Titles: | Organic Sesame Production |
Authors: | ICAR_CRIDA |
ICAR Data Use Licennce: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/PDF/ICAR_Data_Use_Licence.pdf |
Author's Affiliated institute: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Published/ Complete Date: | 2011 |
Project Code: | Not Available |
Keywords: | Government ,dentified rainfed, livestock |
Publisher: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Citation: | Not Available |
Series/Report no.: | Not Available; |
Abstract/Description: | The rainfed agro-ecosystem in India covers arid, semi-arid and sub humid zones which represents more than 70% of the geographical area. Fifty eight per cent of the 142 million ha cultivated area is rainfed. Unlike irrigated areas, where homogenous, high intensive cropping systems are common, rainfed farming systems are more diverse and heterogenous. Livestock farming plays an important role in farmer's livelihood. Historically, rainfed farmers followed a low intensive sustainable farming system with excellent integration of crops-trees-pastures and livestock (Venkateswarlu, 2008). The vast majority of rainfed farmers in remote areas still practice low external input or no external input farming which is well integrated with livestock, particularly small ruminants. Based on several surveys and reports, it is estimated that up to 30% of the rainfed farmers in many remote areas of the country do not use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, many resource poor farmers are practicing organic farming by default. The Government of India task force on organic farming and several other reviewers has i, areas and regions in north east as more suitable for organic farming in view of the low input use (GOI, 2001; Dwivedi, 2005; Ramesh et al., 2005). Rainfed areas are reported to have relative advantage to go for organic farming primarily due to (i) low level of input use, (ii) shorter conversion period and (iii) smaller yield reductions compared to irrigated areas, but no one can suggest any large scale conversion in view of several limitations particularly availability of organic inputs in required quantities (Venkateswarlu, 2008). The inherent advantages of rainfed areas should be capitalized by encouraging organic farming in highly selected areas and commodities with edapho-climatic and price advantages |
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ISSN: | Not Available |
Type(s) of content: | Technical Report |
Sponsors: | Not Available |
Language: | English |
Name of Journal: | Not Available |
Volume No.: | Not Available |
Page Number: | Not Available |
Name of the Division/Regional Station: | Not Available |
Source, DOI or any other URL: | Not Available |
URI: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/72338 |
Appears in Collections: | NRM-CRIDA-Publication |
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Organic Sesame Production 2010-11.pdf | 4.55 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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