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Unlocking the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture Through Integrated Watershed Management

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Title Unlocking the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture Through Integrated Watershed Management
 
Creator Wani, S P
Ramakrishna, A
Sreedevi, T K
 
Subject Watershed management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Rainfed systems!! globally
account for 58 per cent of the world
food production (Rosegrant et al.,
2002) and accounts for about twothirds
of total cropped area and
generate nearly half of the total value
of agricultural output In India (Kerr,
1996). Because of raintall variability,
accelerating land degradation, lack of
appropriate technologies, and limited
economic investments, the productivity
of rainted systems has been quite low.
Hence, the relative share and severity
of poverty is often higher in rainted
regions (Ryan and Spencer, 2001).
Addressing the problems of natural
resource degradation............
 
Publisher Agricultural Finance Corporation Limited
 
Date 2004
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/5754/1/Financing%20Agriculture_36_2_15-20_2004.pdf
Wani, S P and Ramakrishna, A and Sreedevi, T K (2004) Unlocking the Potential of Rainfed Agriculture Through Integrated Watershed Management. Financing Agriculture, 36 (2). pp. 15-20.