eprintid: 9897
rev_number: 16
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datestamp: 2017-03-07 04:27:13
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creators_name: Rao, A N
creators_name: Wani, S P
creators_name: Gajanan, S
creators_name: Anantha, K H
creators_name: Ladha, J K
icrisatcreators_name: Rao, A N
icrisatcreators_name: Wani, S P
icrisatcreators_name: Gajanan, S
icrisatcreators_name: Anantha, K H
affiliation: ICRISAT (Patancheru)
affiliation: IRRI (Manila)
country: India
country: Philippines
title: Weed management role in increasing crop yield and doubling rice farmers’ income in India - An analysis
ispublished: pub
subjects: S2021
subjects: S6
subjects: cr1
subjects: s29
subjects: s32
divisions: CRPS2
full_text_status: public
pres_type: paper
keywords: Weed management, Crop yield, Rice, Farmers’income, India, Food grain
note: The authors thank Government of Karnataka for financial support
abstract: India produces 24.8% of world rice by standing first in
area (43.9 million ha) and second in production (106.5 million
tons) globally. Rice plays vital role in Indian food security as it
is staple food for two thirds of Indians supplying 33% of food
energy.Rice productivity and production are to be increased
to meet the demands of increasing population. Indian rice
farmers are constrained by escalating farming cost and
depleting income. The rice productivity in India is low (2.4 t/
ha) due to wide range of environmental conditions and ways it
is grown and the biological and physical constraints that
prevail. Among biological constraints weeds are major
causing yield losses of 10 to 100% depending on method of
rice establishment, associated weeds, cultural practices
adopted, environmental and other associated factors (Rao
and Nagamani 2010, Rao et al. 2015). Thus any effort
involving improvement in food grain production to meet
current and future food demands and double the farmers’
income must involve rice and weed management. The
objective of the present analysis is to assess weed
management role in attaining higher crop production and to double the income of rice farmers in India.
date: 2017-03
date_type: published
pagerange: 249
event_title: Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Weed Science on “Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022: The Role of Weed Science
event_location: MPUA&T, Udaipur, Rajasthan
event_dates: March 1-3, 2017
event_type: conference
refereed: TRUE
funders: Government of Karnataka
citation:   Rao, A N and Wani, S P and Gajanan, S and Anantha, K H and Ladha, J K  (2017) Weed management role in increasing crop yield and doubling rice farmers’ income in India - An analysis.  In: Biennial Conference of the Indian Society of Weed Science on “Doubling Farmers’ Income by 2022: The Role of Weed Science, March 1-3, 2017, MPUA&T, Udaipur, Rajasthan.     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/9897/1/Proceedings_of_ISWS_Biennial_Conference_249.pdf