Innovations in Dryland Agriculture

354 Under the Technology Demonstration Component (TDC) of the National Innovations on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA), far ...

355 include zero tillage, direct seeding, parachute transplanting, bed planting, laser land leveling and crop residue management ...

356 opment, extension services, and other regulatory fiscal and non-fiscal mechanisms. Government assistance in the rehabilitati ...

357 balanced nutrition, with promising results. For example, in Warangal, balanced nutrition significantly improved cotton yield ...

358 1982 ). “The household, its resources and the resource flows and interactions at the individual farm levels are together ref ...

359 stock of the province. In Baluchistan approximately 87 % of the people directly or indirectly drive their livelihood from li ...

360 fertility through the build-up of organic matter and nutrients in the soil. Studies have found that multiple-use species suc ...

361 Table 5 Promising plant species for dryland systems in India Country Zone System Promising speciesForestry plants Fruit plan ...

362 Country Zone System Promising speciesForestry plants Fruit plants Crops/grasses/shrubs Pakistan Arid Silvi-pasture b,c Khejr ...

363 Country Zone System Promising speciesForestry plants Fruit plants Crops/grasses/shrubs Sri Lanka Low country dry zone Live f ...

364 The hilly terrain of the North-Eastern Hill (NEH) region of India is suitable for sustainable multi-enterprise systems. As a ...

365 fashion and incur significant yield losses. In India, an innovative institutional arrangement in the form of a Custom Hiring ...

366 3.1 Declining Natural Resource Base The scarcity of soil and water resources, exacerbated by soil degradation and envi- ronm ...

367 soil erosion are the prevailing land degradation issues in Pakistan (Sharda 2011 ). Irrigation systems in Pakistan are now u ...

368 Myanmar has abundant water resources, but the problems in this country are related to the uneven spatial and temporal distri ...

369 Khashoei 2003 ; Barzegar et al. 2002a, b), Inceptisols (Ishaq et al. 2001 ) and Alfisols (Smith et al. 1992 ). In addition t ...

370 high- intensity rainfall, hailstorms and frost in South Asia over the last century (Sivakumar and Stefanski 2011 ; Srinivasa ...

371 The projected impacts of climate change will vary across sectors, locations and populations. With most of the land area (app ...

372 Pacific (Mukherjee 2008 ). For some countries, like Bangladesh and India, about 30 % of children are born underweight and ru ...

373 explicit objective of any program or intervention intended to tackle food insecurity. Improving the situation with respect t ...