Sustainable intensification in eastern gangetic plains of South Asia via conservation agriculture for energy, water and food security under climate smart management system

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Maize and Wheat Improvement Centeren
cg.contributor.affiliationSher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technologyen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.contributor.initiativeTransforming Agrifood Systems in South Asia
cg.coverage.regionAsia
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asia
cg.creator.identifierMahesh K Gathala;: 0000-0001-8282-2953en
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09218-3_13en
cg.isbn9783031092176en
cg.isbn9783031092183en
cg.placeSwitzerlanden
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.actionAreaResilient Agrifood Systems
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food security
dc.contributor.authorGathala, Mahesh Kumaren
dc.contributor.authorMahdi, S. Sherazen
dc.contributor.authorJan, Rukhsanaen
dc.contributor.authorWani, Owais W.en
dc.contributor.authorParthiban, M.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-11T09:23:55Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-11T09:23:55Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/126832
dc.titleSustainable intensification in eastern gangetic plains of South Asia via conservation agriculture for energy, water and food security under climate smart management systemen
dcterms.abstractRice cultivation in the South Asian region of Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP) is running out of water, labour, low productivity and profitability. In addition, this system of crop production often ignores CO2-equivalent greenhouse-gas emissions, which are often rather significant. Although a dominant food-producing region in Asia is becoming poor in crop production, crop management approaches based on conservation agriculture-based sustainable intensification (CASI) increase the crop yields and improve profitability while lowering the water, energy and labour requirements, as well as greenhouse-gas emissions. The use of CASI approaches in EGP region villages and districts enhances crop diversification and intensifies their production. It also facilitates employment opportunities and micro entrepreneurship in rural areas. In on-farm experiments traditional and improved approaches in rice-based cropping systems were compared. We discovered that CASI management approaches increased the crop yields by 10%, reduced labour demand by 50% and increased water and energy productivity by 19% and 26% respectively. Overall, these findings showed that using CASI lowered crop production costs by up to 22% and raised gross margins by 12–32% compared with traditional methods. CASI management also resulted in CO2-equivalent emissions that were between 10% and 17% lower than those with traditional management. Initially, this principal research was collaborated on with farmer support groups for further extension. To encourage CASI adoption and out-scaling on a scale outside of research domains, an actively supporting policy environment was required.en
dcterms.accessRightsLimited Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-11-12en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationGathala, M. K., Mahdi, S. S., Jan, R., Wani, O. A., & Parthiban, M. (2022). Sustainable intensification in eastern gangetic plains of south asia via conservation agriculture for energy, water and food security under climate smart management system. IN: F. A. Bahar, M. Anwar Bhat, & S. S. Mahdi (Eds.), Secondary Agriculture. Cham: Springer: 169–188en
dcterms.issued2022en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCopyrighted; all rights reserved
dcterms.publisherSpringeren
dcterms.subjectconservation agricultureen
dcterms.subjectfood securityen
dcterms.subjectsoil qualityen
dcterms.subjectwater productivityen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.typeBook Chapter

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