Dr. Ken Sayre Visits RCTs sites in Eastern UP and Bihar - A trip Report
Sayre, K.D.
8 pages
Published 2/2008

The main purpose of this trip to India was to visit as many field sites and meet as many
current site RWC/CIMMYT cooperators as possible in northeastern India (eastern UP, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal) where CIMMYT has been actively involved with local agencies and farmers in the development, characterization, testing/validation and transfer to farmers of Conservation Agriculture (CA)-based resource conserving technologies (RCTs). These activities that have characterized CIMMYT’s effort within the RWC have mainly focused on activities associated with facilitating farmer adoption of zero-till wheat planting technologies. In addition, however, it has also included some simple, observatory activities and demonstrations, mainly in farmer fields, to test other CA-based RCTs including direct seeded rice (with minimum tillage or with zero tillage), application of zero till planting to other crops like maize (kharif and rabi), lentil, mustard, faba bean and chickpea, laser leveling, intercropping (potato and maize, pigeon pea and maize among others) and some limited activities with bed planting (wheat , pigeon pea, maize). .........................for more information pl click the download link given below

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