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Organic Sesame Production

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Title Organic Sesame Production
Organic Sesame Production
 
Creator ICAR_CRIDA
 
Subject Government ,dentified rainfed, livestock
 
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The rainfed agro-ecosystem in India covers arid, semi-arid and
sub humid zones which represents more than 70% of the
geographical area. Fifty eight per cent of the 142 million ha
cultivated area is rainfed. Unlike irrigated areas, where
homogenous, high intensive cropping systems are common,
rainfed farming systems are more diverse and heterogenous.
Livestock farming plays an important role in farmer's livelihood.
Historically, rainfed farmers followed a low intensive sustainable
farming system with excellent integration of crops-trees-pastures
and livestock (Venkateswarlu, 2008).
The vast majority of rainfed farmers in remote areas still practice
low external input or no external input farming which is well
integrated with livestock, particularly small ruminants. Based
on several surveys and reports, it is estimated that up to 30% of
the rainfed farmers in many remote areas of the country do not
use chemical fertilizers and pesticides. Thus, many resource poor
farmers are practicing organic farming by default. The
Government of India task force on organic farming and several
other reviewers has i, areas and regions in north
east as more suitable for organic farming in view of the low input
use (GOI, 2001; Dwivedi, 2005; Ramesh et al., 2005).
Rainfed areas are reported to have relative advantage to go for
organic farming primarily due to (i) low level of input use, (ii)
shorter conversion period and (iii) smaller yield reductions
compared to irrigated areas, but no one can suggest any large
scale conversion in view of several limitations particularly
availability of organic inputs in required quantities
(Venkateswarlu, 2008). The inherent advantages of rainfed areas
should be capitalized by encouraging organic farming in highly
selected areas and commodities with edapho-climatic and price
advantages
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Date 2022-05-20T06:52:57Z
2022-05-20T06:52:57Z
2011
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/72338
 
Language English
 
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Publisher ICAR_CRIDA