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Contingency Crop Planning for 100 Districts in Peninsular India

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Title Contingency Crop Planning for 100 Districts in Peninsular India
Contingency Crop Planning for 100 Districts in Peninsular India
 
Creator NICRA-ICAR
 
Subject Contingency Plans
 
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In-season monitoring of drought through monitoring of rainfall and progress in sowings
is crucial for effective management of droughts and minimizing the adverse impacts on
crop production. Early season drought due to delay in onset of monsoon is directly
responsible for shortfalls in area sown under major crops compared to normal situation.
Also, delay in onset often leads to poor inflows into reservoirs, water bodies or poor
recharge of groundwater and contributes to delay in sowings.
Contingency crop planning refers to making available a plan for providing alternate
crop or cultivar choices in tune with the resource endowments of rainfall and soils in a
given location. In rainfed areas, as a general rule, early sowing of crops with the onset of
monsoon is the best-bet practice that gives higher realizable yield. Major crops affected
due to monsoon delays are those that have a narrow sowing window and therefore cannot
be taken up if the delay is beyond this cut-off date for sowing. Crops with wider sowing
windows can still be taken up till the cut-off date without major reduction in crop yield
and only the change warranted could be the choice of short duration cultivars. Beyond
the sowing window, choice of alternate crops or cultivars depends on the farming situation,
soil, rainfall and cropping pattern in the location and extent of delay in the onset of
monsoon (2, 4, 6 and 8 weeks). Breaks in monsoon cause prolonged dry spells and are
responsible for early, mid and terminal droughts. These aberrant situations often lead to
poor crop performance and or total crop failure. While early season droughts have to be
combated with operations like gap filling and re-sowing, mid and late season droughts
have to be managed through crop, soil, nutrient management and moisture conservation
measures. Drought also affects livestock/milk productivity due to shortage of fodder.
Appropriate location-specific fodder production strategies go a long way in reducing the
adverse impact on livestock which is the major source of livelihood in dryland areas.
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Date 2021-07-20T09:47:26Z
2021-07-20T09:47:26Z
2012-07-16
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/49205
 
Language English
 
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Publisher NICRA-ICAR