http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/3543 2011-11-02T11:50:25Z info:eu-repo/semantics/descriptiveMetadata http://oar.icrisat.org/3543/ A Mission to Enhance Productivity of Rain-fed Crops in Rain-fed Districts of Karnataka, India. Raju, K V Rao, M B Sarvesh, K V Muniyappa, N C Dasgupta, A Wani, S P Watershed Management Water shortage is a major constraint for rain-fed crop production and achief cause of poverty and hunger in the semi-arid tropics of the world.Over 95 per cent of the world’s poor and mal nourished people live inIndia, China, the Eastern and Sub-Saharan Africa and parts of LatinAmerica. Rain-fed agriculture is practiced on 80% of the world’s farmarea, and generates almost 60% of the world’s staple foods, providingthe livelihoods of 80 per cent of the world’s population. In India, 40% ofthe population depends on rain-fed agriculture, which is cultivated 85million hectares, and produces 44% of food and fodder requirements forthe country. Rain-fed areas in India covering 60% of agriculture produce75% of pulses and more than 90% of sorghum, millet, and groundnut.These areas are the hot spots of poverty, suffer from water scarcity anddroughts, land degradation and low rainwater use efficiency 2011 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://oar.icrisat.org/3543/1/A_mission_to_enhance_productivity_of_rainfed_crops_in_rainfed_dist_of_karnataka.pdf Raju, K V and Rao, M B and Sarvesh, K V and Muniyappa, N C and Dasgupta, A and Wani, S P (2011) A Mission to Enhance Productivity of Rain-fed Crops in Rain-fed Districts of Karnataka, India. In: Use of High Science Tools in Integrated Watershed Management Proceedings of the National Symposium, 1–2 February 2010, NASC Complex, New Delhi, India. info:eu-repo/semantics/objectFile info:eu-repo/semantics/humanStartPage