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Mitigating Risk and Scaling-Out Profitable Cropping System Intensification Practices in the Salt-Affected Coastal Zone of the Ganges Delta

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Title Mitigating Risk and Scaling-Out Profitable Cropping System Intensification Practices in the Salt-Affected Coastal Zone of the Ganges Delta
 
Creator MAINUDDIN, MOHAMMED
BELL, RICHARD W.
SARANGI, SUKANTA KUMAR
MANIRUZZAMAN, MD.
PENA-ARANCIBIA, JORGE L.
GAYDON, DONALD S.
KARIM, FAZLUL
MONJARDINO, MARTA
GLOVER, MARK
BRAHMACHARI, KOUSHIK
GOSWAMI, RUPAK
ANWAR, MD. MAZHARUL
BARRETT-LENNARD, EDWARD G.
YU, YINGYING
 
Subject ACIAR
Climate change
Crop model
Fallow
Livelihood
Socio-economics
 
Description The polders and islands in the salt-affected coastal zone of the Ganges Delta, home to approximately 15 million people in Bangladesh and 5 million in West Bengal, face challenges such as poverty, food insecurity, environmental vulnerability, and limited livelihood opportunities. Historically, agricultural production in these areas was mainly confined to the wet/Kharif season, with much of the land remaining fallow during the dry/Rabi season due to waterlogging, soil salinity, and perceived lack of irrigation water. Since 2015, researchers and NGOs from Australia, Bangladesh, and India collaborated on the project "Cropping system intensification in the salt-affected coastal zones of Bangladesh and West Bengal, India" to sustainably increase cropping intensity and productivity in this area. During 2015-2021, the project has made significant achievements and has demonstrated strategies that are likely to increase productivity, cropping intensity, and livelihoods of the people. However, to maintain these gains and address risks like climate change impacts, untimely rainfall, and market fluctuations, further research was deemed necessary. Thus, ACIAR funded Phase 2 of the project for 2021-2025 which aims to sustain and enhance the achievements. This special issue presents some research findings on projected climate change, agronomic experiments, irrigation and drainage management, and social and economic issues conducted under the project Phase 2 in Bangladesh and West Bengal, India.
 
Publisher Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research
 
Date 2024-06-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JISCAR/article/view/148094
10.54894/JISCAR.42.1.2024.148094
 
Source Journal of the Indian Society of Coastal Agricultural Research; Vol. 42 No. 1 (2024): Special Issue
2584-0320
0972-1584
 
Language eng
 
Relation https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/JISCAR/article/view/148094/54806
 
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