Mangalore: The success of Bhoo Chetana in dry land cultivation has inspired the State Government to expand its reach to all the districts in the State and to include rain fed areas.
Accordingly, in Dakshina Kannada district, the scheme will cover 5,100 hectare paddy field in the kharif season.
Speaking to Deccan Herald, Agriculture department Joint Director Padmaiah Naik said the programme
The International Crop Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics has released 735 highly-nutritious and drought-tolerant crop varieties developed using germplasm and breeding materials in 78 countries, including Andhra Pradesh in India, significantly contributing to increased income and better nutrition of resource-poor people in the dry land tropics.
Udaipur: President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday said the country needed another Green Revolution as the population growth is set to increase on already scarce resources.
Dryland farming has come to the rescue of drought-hit farmers of 22 villages in Gumla, courtesy agriculture scientists of Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) at Gumla, 150 km from Ranchi.
Scientists are advocating dryland farming across Bishunpur, Ghaghra, Gumla, Kamdara and Sisai blocks, distributing seeds that grow well in uplands.
Farmers are sowing seeds of sweet potato, maize, lentils such as ur
Based on the traditional wisdom of the tree based farming systems followed since ages across the world, scientific community intervened to harness full benefits of agroforestry land use system and address global issues of land degradation and agricultural sustainability.
Land degradation is a serious menace to food security. Salinity-related land degradation is becoming a serious challenge to food and nutritional security in developing countries. Order vertisols has problem of salinity throughout the country. The vertisols and their associates cover nearly 257 m ha of the earth
Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government has decided to promote non-paddy crops in highlands while continuing with the emphasis on paddy cultivation as part of its strategy to usher in the second
