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374 to achieve high growth and promoting farming systems to improve the natural resource base. Current approaches in development ...

375 ability. Economically, the watershed programs are beneficial and viable with a benefit:cost ratio of 1:2.14 and an internal ...

376 Low SOM in tropical soils, particularly those under the influence of arid, semi- arid, and subhumid climates, is a major fac ...

377 4.1.3 Conservation Agriculture Conservation agriculture (CA) is gaining momentum as an alternative strategy to sustain agric ...

378 products, which depend on the private sector, cooperatives or joint ventures of pub- lic and private agencies. Studies on in ...

379 development for strategic research, and demonstration of best practices on farmers’ fields to cope with climate variability. ...

380 surpluses. There are also efforts to integrate producers with consumers through sup- ply and value chains to increase the pr ...

381 information facilitation to collect real-time crop data, formulate an appropriate advisory and disseminate what?. Field Info ...

382 especially in India, have changed. Non-tariff barriers, rather than tariff barriers, were hindering intra-regional trade. Th ...

383 its counterparts in other countries, and outputs should be shared with other countries where relevant. Some crop varieties d ...

384 residue management plan should be developed. The adoption of various location- specific INM practices in dryland systems sho ...

385 Bandara MACS, Aheeyar MMM (2010) Runoff Rainwater Harvesting Interventions in Sri Lanka. HARTI research report no: 133. Hect ...

386 FAO (2001) Farming systems and poverty: improving farmers’ livelihoods in a changing world. Food and Agriculture Organizatio ...

387 IICA (2014) Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture Innovation in Agriculture (IICA): a key process for sust ...

388 weather conditions. Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (ICAR), Hyderabad, India, 47 p Mattsson E, Ostwald M, ...

389 options for integrated watershed management proceedings of the comprehensive assessment of watershed programs in India, 25–2 ...

390 ment in agriculture. Earth Scan and Colombo/International Water Management Institute, London/Sri Lanka, pp 315–348 Samra JS ...

391 Srinivasarao C (2011) Nutrient management strategies in rainfed agriculture: constraints and opportunities. Indian J Fertil ...

392 Uddin MM, Saheed SM (2016) Soil and water conservation and dryland farming in the hilly areas of Bangladesh. Bangladesh Agri ...

© Springer International Publishing AG 2016 393 M. Farooq, K.H.M. Siddique (eds.), Innovations in Dryland Agriculture, DOI 10.10 ...