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Advancing knowledge on the costs and benefits of sustainable soil fertility management in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh /India

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Title Advancing knowledge on the costs and benefits of sustainable soil fertility management in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh /India
 
Creator Falk, T
Kadiyala, M D M
Gumma, M K
Kumar, S
Whitbread, A M
Limberger, S
Bartels, L
 
Subject Impact Assessment
Soil Fertility
Sustainable Agriculture
Soil
Soil Science
Indian Agriculture
 
Description The majority Indian rural households depend for their livelihoods on the productivity of the farming systems. Almost universally, the yield gap between potential and achieved productivity is large, water and nutrient use efficiency is low and land degradation can be widely observed (Lobell et al. 2009, Conklin & Stilwell 2007). Also in the States of Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh livelihoods of around 65% of the rural population depend on agriculture and related activities. A large share of them are smallholder farmers with often low and unstable crop and livestock productivity. At the same time, land degradation is a major concern also driven by changing cropping patterns. Overall, there has been a steady decline in the area under water efficient crops like groundnut, pigeon pea and other millets. The area under rice and cotton has increased in the recent decades mainly owing to the (over)exploitation of groundwater. Besides, there is indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and unbalanced-application of nutrients. Policies subsidizing inorganic fertilizers, particularly N and P also encourage the farmers to rely more strongly on inorganic fertilizer than on organic ones...
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2018
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/10691/1/WLE_ELD%20GIZ%20ICRISAT%20results%20report%202017.pdf
Falk, T and Kadiyala, M D M and Gumma, M K and Kumar, S and Whitbread, A M and Limberger, S and Bartels, L (2018) Advancing knowledge on the costs and benefits of sustainable soil fertility management in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh /India. Project Report. ICRISAT.