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Prospects and policy challenges in the Twelfth Plan – A special article by Montek Singh Ahluwalia in EPW

This paper by Montek Singh Ahluwalia in Economic and Political Weekly attempts to review the recent performance of the economy and lists the priorities and challenges for the Twelfth Plan. The year 2011-12 is the last year of the Eleventh Plan and this is therefore an appropriate time to review what has been achieved with a view to identify weaknesses in the strategy that need to be corrected, and also identify new challenges that may require new initiatives. The paper is presented in the hope of spurring a broader discussion on these issues.

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Women at the center of climate friendly approaches to agriculture and water use - A report by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy

IATPThis report by Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy identifies three principles and two sets of policy-level interventions necessary to enhance water and food security for marginalised communities by drawing on the experiences of the Tamilnadu Women’s Collective (WC), a state-level federation of women’s groups from 1,500 villages, in the context where communities all around the world are struggling to find ways to cope with changes affecting food and water security because of the phenomenon of climate change.

The report argues that many a times, new food and water security policies at the national and international level tend to be narrow, look at each of these issues in isolation and  undermine food and water security strategies adopted by individuals and households from marginal groups. Adaptation strategies to address food security focus almost exclusively on increasing agricultural production, while ignoring health and cultural aspects of the food being produced, and the role of agriculture as a means for rural viability. Read More

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Guidelines for extending green revolution to eastern India - Document prepared by Department for Agriculture and Cooperation (2011)

There is an ongoing programme to extend the benefits of the green revolution to the eastern parts of the country. The states of Assam, Bihar, eastern U.P, Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, Bengal, Orissa were allocated extra funds in the last year for this purpose. This year (2011-12) too, the Union Budget has allocated additional Rs.400 crore for the same purpose. The money will be utilised according to a plan created by these states. The plan is to address the main constraints impeding the growth of agriculture. The short and medium term plan focuses on water management, efficient power and other input utilisation. Also the creation and maintenance of agricultural assets like wells is also looked into.

The planning was done so that non-National Food Security Mission (NFSM)  districts are mostly chosen. These constitute 54 % of the total districts (97 out of 183). Also,  clusters of villages comprising of 1000 hectares land were made in most cases. Such clusters would expedite execution, monitoring and create visible impacts.
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Status of SRI in India - Upscaling strategy and global experience sharing - A roundtable discussion at IARI

SRIA roundtable discussion was held on upscaling strategy and global experience sharing on 3rd March 2011 at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi in order to gain more insights and improve understanding on the System of Rice Intensification (SRI). The issues of sustainable food security assume national importance, as the country is debating on the crucial National Food Security Bill. Breaking yield barrier, accelerating growth of production and ensuring sustainability are the critical policy concerns in Indian agriculture.

The roundtable discussion underlined the need to harness the opportunities offered by the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and its extensions to crop production in many areas. This may help in substantially reducing the need for embedded subsidies in every grain of rice while achieving increases in yield by 15 per cent to 40 per cent or more over present conventional methods. In India about 1.7 million farmers are estimated to have adopted the technique on more than 7.5 lakh hectares across 160 districts, without any major project funding so far. Tamil Nadu and Tripura are the leading states for adoption of SRI, but many others are following suit.

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Warangal, AP, India
Latitude: 18.000055, Longitude: 79.588167

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Future water solutions for India - A paper by Himanshu Thakkar in the Palgrave Development journal

This paper by Himanshu Thakkar published in the journal Development looks at the daunting challenges that future water demand places on India and the possible solutions to address these probelems. The challenges that the paper highlights includes:Read More

  • Increase in population, industralisation and urbanisation
  • Increase in food grain demand
  • Increased demand for water
  • Increase in power demand
  • Lack of access to sanitation, water, electricity for majority of the population
  • Challenges due to climate change leading to increase in natural disaters such as floods, droughts, destruction of environment
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Comparing soil properties of farmers’ fields growing rice through SRI and conventional methods - A research paper

This paper was presented at the first National Symposium on System of Rice Intensification (SRI) – Present Status and Future Prospects held in 2006. The paper discusses the outcomes of an experiment that compares System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and conventional method of rice cultivation on various parameters.  The parameters include thirteen soil properties which included six related to cultureable microorganisms, three root-related parameters and yield.Read More

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Hyderabad, AP, India
Latitude: 17.385044, Longitude: 78.486671

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Paddy and water management with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI) – A special issue of the journal "Paddy and Water Environment"

PAWEThe international journal “Paddy and Water Environment” has brought out a special issue in March 2011 (Volume 9, Number 1) on “Paddy and Water Management with the System of Rice Intensification (SRI)” which brings together the results of formal research on SRI in a number of countries (Part I) and also reports on initiatives by government agencies, NGOs, universities, or the private sector, bringing knowledge of SRI to farmers in a wide range of agroecological circumstances (Part II). It has six articles and nine technical reports from Afghanistan, China, the Gambia, Kenya, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mali,  Pakistan, Panama, and Thailand as well as several review articles.

The System of Rice Intensification (SRI), developed in Madagascar almost 30 years ago, modifies certain practices for managing plants, soil, water, and nutrients with the effect of raising the productivity of the land, labor, and capital devoted to rice production. Certain production inputs are reduced—seeds, inorganic fertilizer, water, and fuel where water is pumped—with increased yield as a result.

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"A rock and a hard place" and "Tackling the P problem" - Dependence of agriculture on phosphate fertiliser - Issues and the way out - Papers by Soil Association and J Venkateswarlu

These two reports discuss the dependency of agriculture on phosphorous and the ways to mitigate the problem.Read More

The first report looks at agricultural dependence of chemical nutrients on a global scale and even discusses the potential international political fallout of a reduction in phosphorous. The second report is focused on ways to tackle the dependency on this mineral, in the Indian context. However, both speak of the need for finding alternatives to the current methods of obtaining phosphorous, which is largely through mining.

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Potential of the System of Rice Intensification for systemic improvement in rice production and water use - The case of Andhra Pradesh

This paper discusses the advantages of system of rice intensification over normal paddy cultivation. The researcher compare the performance of System of Rice Intensification (SRI) and normal rice fields in two mandals (subdistricts) of Mahabubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh. The yields from these two systems and agronomics are compared.Read More

The need to find less water intensive methods of agriculture become important as there is a reduction in the scope of enhancing irrigation base for increase in food production. It is in this context that this research has been carried out.

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Mahabubnagar, AP, India
Latitude: 16.384144, Longitude: 78.110828

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Mitigating climate change through organic agriculture - Keynote address at the Third Organic Farming Association of India Convention, held at Anand, Gujarat (2010)

Green Revolution (GR) technologies, supported by official policies, and fuelled by agro-chemicals, machinery and irrigation, are well known to have improved agricultural production and productivityRead More

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anand, GJ, India
Latitude: 22.560869, Longitude: 72.954773

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