A research strategy for improved livelihoods and sustainable rice-wheat cropping in the Indo-Gangetic Plains:Vision for 2006–2010 and beyond

8 pages
Published 11/2006

More than 3.1 billion people living in South Asia and China depend for food on rice and wheat production. Rice-wheat rotations occupy nearly 13.5 million hectares in the region and comprise complex cropping systems fraught with productivity and sustainability concerns. So-called “Green Revolution” technologies—improved crop varieties and use of fertilizer and other improved practices predicated in the 1960-70s—have helped raise productivity and improve livelihoods in many rice-wheat zones, but have failed to make an impact in risk-prone or resource-poor regions in recent decades. Global environmental changes have further threatened the fragile food security of inhabitants in such areas. A new set of practices is needed to meet farmers’ needs in areas bypassed by the Green Revolution technologies or where intensive use of these technologies. ........ for more information click the download link given below.

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