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Conservation Agriculture in South Asia

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Title Conservation Agriculture in South Asia
 
Creator Saharawat, Yashpal Singh
Gill, Mushtaq
Gathala, Mahesh K.
Karki, Tika Bahadur
Wijeratne, D.B.T.
Samiullah, Sayed
 
Subject conservation agriculture
food security
soil quality
water productivity
climate change
 
Description South Asia, a home of 1.7 billion people houses the most poor and malnourished people globally. The region need to double its food production by 2050. Current scenario puts South Asian agriculture in a dilema facing triple challenges: to increase production to meet the food demand of growing human population with a lower environmental footprint, preserve natural resources and mitigate or adapt to the changing climatic scenarios. Conservation Agriculture offers a number of benefits such as arresting and reversing the resource degradation, decreasing cultivation costs, making agriculture more resource – use-efficient, competitive and sustainable whilst increasing resilience to climatic variability and improving livelihood incomes in South Asia. The CA approach for managing agro-ecosystems is of paramount significance in improving soil health, sustained productivity and maintaining natural biodiversity. However, there is still a large knowledge gap in understanding of nutrient and water management in CA systems.
 
Date 2022-02-07
2023-01-11T14:33:14Z
2023-01-11T14:33:14Z
 
Type Book Chapter
 
Identifier Saharawat, Y.S., Gill, M., Gathala, M.K., Karki, T.B., Wijeratne, D.B.T. and Samiullah, S. 2022. Con-servation Agriculture in South Asia. IN: Kassam, Amir (ed.), Advances in Conservation Agricul-ture, Volume 3, pp. 1–41. United Kingdom: Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing.
9781003180678
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/126863
https://doi.org/10.19103/AS.2021.0088.12
 
Language en
 
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Publisher Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing