Proceedings of the NABARD-ICAR-ICRISAT Workshop on Watershed-Based Dryland Farming in black and red soils of Peninsular India, ICRISAT Center, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 3-4 Oct 1983

Virmani, S M and Tandon, H L S, eds. (1984) Proceedings of the NABARD-ICAR-ICRISAT Workshop on Watershed-Based Dryland Farming in black and red soils of Peninsular India, ICRISAT Center, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India, 3-4 Oct 1983. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India .

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Abstract

This report summarizes the proceedings of the workshop. Part I presents a resume of each session and contains the set of recommendations agreed upon for further action. Part II contains extended summaries of the following nine main papers presented. (1) technology options for increasing crop production in red and black soils, credit needs and policy issues, (2) policy issues in the generation and transfer of watershed-based dryland farming technologies in the black soils of Peninsular India, (3) dryland project in Andhra Pradesh, (4) dryland farming programs in Karnataka, (5) some notes on watershed-based dryland farming in black soil regions of Madhya Pradesh, (6)dry farming in Maharashtra, (7) AFC experience in project formulation for watershed development in dry zone – issues, (8) problems of financing dryolands, (9) credit support for dryland farming and watershed development. Taken together, these reflect the status of the technologies available, field-level experiences with them, and the present thinking on credit

Item Type: Book
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Subjects: Others > Watershed Management
Depositing User: Mr T L Gautham
Date Deposited: 04 Nov 2011 08:43
Last Modified: 03 Sep 2013 07:00
URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3662
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