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Sustainable Productivity Enhancement Initiatives in India:Proceedings of Tata-ICRISAT-ICAR Projects’ Review and Planning Meeting, 12-13 May 2009

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Title Sustainable Productivity Enhancement Initiatives in India:Proceedings of Tata-ICRISAT-ICAR Projects’ Review
and Planning Meeting, 12-13 May 2009
 
Creator Wani, S P
Pathak, P
Sahrawat, K L
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Out of the 852 million poor worldwide, 221 million are in India. The
country must increase its food production to 250 million tons to feed a
population of 1.2 billion people by 2010. Two-thirds of Indian agriculture
is largely dependent on rainfall, and current productivity of the rain-fed
agriculture is quite low (1 to 1.5 t ha-1) as against a potential of 2.5 to
7.0 t ha-1. Rain-fed areas are also impacted by poverty, land degradation,
malnutrition and water scarcity. The initiative of the Tata-ICRISAT-ICAR
project during 2002 to 2007 demonstrated the power of science-led
development model for improving agricultural productivity and incomes
of the rural poor in India. To meet the millennium development goal
(MDG) of halving the number of poor people by 2015, and to meet
the challenges thrown by global warming by greenhouse gas emission,
coordinated, effort is urgently needed to apply science for a sustainable
development in rain-fed areas. Sir Dorabji Tata Trust (SDTT) provided
support to ICRISAT to implement an innovative pilot project to develop
and validate a farmer-centric community watershed development
approach for combating land degradation, which has opened up new
vistas
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2009
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/1356/1/325_2009_CPE165_sustainable_prod_enh.pdf
Wani, S P and Pathak, P and Sahrawat, K L (2009) Sustainable Productivity Enhancement Initiatives in India:Proceedings of Tata-ICRISAT-ICAR Projects’ Review and Planning Meeting, 12-13 May 2009. Other. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics.