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Title: | Organic Farming in Rainfed Agriculture : Opportunities and Constraints |
Other Titles: | Organic Farming in Rainfed Agriculture : Opportunities and Constraints |
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: | 2007 |
Project Code: | Not Available |
Keywords: | Organic, Farming , Rainfed, Agriculture |
Publisher: | ICAR_CRIDA |
Citation: | Not Available |
Series/Report no.: | Not Available; |
Abstract/Description: | Introduction The rainfed agro ecosystem in India covers arid, semi arid and sub humid zones which represents more than 70% of the geographical area. Sixty six percent of the 142 m.ha. cultivated area is rainfed. Unlike irrigated areas where homogenous, high intensive cropping systems are common, rainfed farming systems are more diverse and heterogenous. Coarse cereals, pulses, oilseeds and cotton are the major cropping systems. 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. However, from 70s, with the introduction of hybrids and high yielding varieties particularly in sorghum, pearlmillet and oilseeds, a shift of cropping pattern towards monoculture took place and a corresponding increase in the use of chemical inputs in crop production. The various developmental schemes of the Government of India under different missions have also contributed towards increased use of chemical inputs and higher production. Rainfed Agriculture : Low Input Farming However, 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. The average use of chemical fertilizers in rainfed areas based on a survey of non irrigated SAT districts was found to be 18.5 kg as against 58 kg in the irrigated districts (Katyal and Reddy, 1997). Based on several surveys and reports, it is estimated that upto 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 have identified rainfed 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). |
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ISSN: | Not Available |
Type(s) of content: | Technical Report |
Sponsors: | Not Available |
Language: | English |
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URI: | http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/31133 |
Appears in Collections: | NRM-CRIDA-Publication |
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