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

    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.

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    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

    Item Type: Monograph (Other)
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    Subjects: Others > Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
    Depositing User: Library ICRISAT
    Date Deposited: 28 Sep 2011 03:53
    Last Modified: 28 Sep 2011 03:53
    URI: http://oar.icrisat.org/id/eprint/1356
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