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Integrated Water Resource Management for Increasing Productivity and Water Use Efficiency in the Rain-fed Areas of India

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Title Integrated Water Resource Management for Increasing Productivity and Water Use Efficiency in the Rain-fed Areas of India
 
Creator Singh, P
Pathak, P
Wani, S P
Sahrawat, K L
 
Subject Watershed management
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description Climate variability is the major cause of "uctuations in food production in the
semi-arid tropical (SAT) regions of India leading to food insecurity, malnutrition
and poverty. Although the total amount of rainfall in the SAT regions is adequate
to meet the water requirements of the crops and cropping systems, its erratic
distribution results in periods of excess and de*cit water availability, leading to
low productivity and degradation of natural resources. Therefore, an integrated
water resources management approach comprising in-situ water conservation,
harvesting of excess water in ponds and groundwater recharging and its e+cient
use through appropriate supplemental irrigation methods, improved crop varieties
and cropping systems, balanced nutrition of crops, crop diversi*cation and
intensi*cation with high value crops and crop protection is needed to produce
more food and income per unit of rainfall. The paper describes the achievements
made by ICRISAT in collaboration with its partners in enhancing crop productivity
and rainfall use e+ciency by implementing improved technologies in on-station
and on-farm community watersheds in India
 
Date 2009
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3919/1/13._Integrated_Water_Resource_Management.pdf
Singh, P and Pathak, P and Wani, S P and Sahrawat, K L (2009) Integrated Water Resource Management for Increasing Productivity and Water Use Efficiency in the Rain-fed Areas of India. In: Best-bet Options for Integrated Watershed Management Proceedings of the Comprehensive Assessment of Watershed Programs in India, 25-27 July 2007, ICRISAT Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh,India.