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Bridging Yield Gaps with Science-led Interventions in Andhra Pradesh

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Title Bridging Yield Gaps with Science-led Interventions in Andhra Pradesh
 
Creator Wani, Suhas
 
Description Current productivity of agricultural crops in Andhra Pradesh is lower by twoto
fourfolds
as compared to the achievable potential yields.
Long term studies at ICRISAT based at Patancheru have demonstrated a virtuous cycle of persistent yield increases through improved
management in rainfed agriculture. The present scenario clearly points to the need for adoption of scienceled
interventions to improve
agricultural productivity and livelihoods to alleviate poverty, hunger and malnutrition in rainfed regions. In this context, the Government
of Andhra Pradesh has taken up an innovative approach to adopt sciencebased
development of agriculture and capacity strengthening
of stakeholders with technical support from the ICRISATled
consortium called “Bhoochetana”, which will increase productivity of target
crops by 25% in 5 years. The strategy is to map out nutrient deficiencies in the soils, develop mandalwise
balanced nutrient
recommendations and conduct demonstrations/trials in a phased manner to scale out the technology to a large number of farmers in
the state using improved cultivars and soil and water managemnet practices
 
Date 2013-03-07
2017-01-05T19:42:15Z
2017-01-05T19:42:15Z
 
Type Brochure
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/6643
https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/mUJ5eEOm
Suhas Wani. (7/3/2013). Bridging Yield Gaps with Science-led Interventions in Andhra Pradesh. Hyderabad, India: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/5271
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)