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334 4 Supporting Technologies Two different strands of advanced technologies underpin efficient and profitable animal industries ...

335 (www.grazplan.csiro.au) which contains modules such as Grazfeed© (feed calcula- tor) and Grazgro© (pasture growth, Clark et ...

336 0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000 2003 20042005 20062007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 Dry matter (kg ha -1 y -1) ...

337 decades and, since 2007, an integrated service has been formed called Pastures Australia. Pasture breeding achievements incl ...

338 industries show that many farms have maintained positive total factor productivity (TFP) only by reducing input costs when o ...

339 Panel on Climate Change 2007 ). Research on intercropping, the greater persistence of legumes within grass–legume pastures, ...

340 References ABARE-BRS (2010) Australian collaborative land use and management program– national land use mapping. Land use Au ...

341 Burns H, Norton M (2015) Constraints to greater use of pulses and forage legumes on acid soils of the high rainfall zone of ...

342 Hill MJ (1996) Potential adaptation zones for temperate pasture species as constrained by climate: a knowledge-based logical ...

343 Meat and Livestock Australia (2012b) Sheep numbers as at June 2011- natural resource manage- ment region Published by Meat a ...

344 Ryan T (2010) The Australian fertiliser industry—values and issues. Australian Fertilizer Industry conference, Fertiliser In ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 345 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.10 ...

346 The region is characterized by diverse climates, and equally-diverse soil and water resources. South Asian economies are agr ...

347 Table 2 Natural resources and land use in South Asia Country Afghanistan Bangladesh Bhutan India Maldives Nepal Pakistan Sri ...

348 country has a tropical climate—summer (March to June) is hot and humid while winter (October to March) is mild—the rainy sea ...

349 Bank estimated that 451 million people in the subcontinent live below their respec- tive national poverty lines (Chand 2010 ...

350 Bhutan and the Maldives and increased by 25–70 % in the other countries. In TE 2013, the yield of pulses was more than 1 t/h ...

351 growth rate in WTO implementation period (1995–2000) was 2.38 % whereas entire post-WTO period (1995–2003) recorded a growth ...

352 supplemental irrigation (Rao et al. 2010 ; Srinivasarao et al. 2013a). Dryland areas receive an annual rainfall of less than ...

353 Table 3 Location-specific in-situ moisture conservations practices in different countries Country In-situ moisture conservat ...