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Bhoochetana: Reviving Soils for Agriculture

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Title Bhoochetana: Reviving Soils for Agriculture
 
Creator Chander, G
Dixit, S
Sawargaonkar, G
 
Subject Bhoochetana
Soil Fertility
 
Description The Bhoochetana program in Karnataka, India, has been one of the initial exemplar attempts at scaling-out
best practices in reviving soils on a large scale involving thousands of farmers in the state. The stagnant
to declining growth of the agriculture sector in Karnataka between 2000 and 2008 demanded a multipronged
strategy to revive agriculture. Given the alarming situation, in 2009 the state initiated measures
to address soil health through a state-wide, flagship program called Bhoochetana. The program was
designed to get the state’s agriculture back on track by increasing crop productivity and strengthening
agriculture-based livelihoods.
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Contributor Dixit, S
Mishra, P K
Muthukumar, M
Reddy, K M
Padhee, A K
Mishra, A
 
Date 2020
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/11938/1/Ch1-%28Bhoochetana%20Reviving%20Soils%20for%20Agriculture%29.pdf
Chander, G and Dixit, S and Sawargaonkar, G (2020) Bhoochetana: Reviving Soils for Agriculture. In: Mapping the Nutrient Status of Odisha’s Soils. ICRISAT, Hyderabad, pp. 1-6.