Rabi Campaign 2013 – 14

Group III

Strategies for Resource Management for Better Input

Use efficiency

States and UT Participated

• Dadra & Nagar haveli• Gujarat• Himachal Pradesh• Odisha• Punjab• Sikkim• Tamil Nadu

Inputs Considered

• Fertilizer (Soil Health)• Water• Energy• Plant Protection• Knowledge Management

Classifying the strategies

• High Cost, Long Term• Low Cost, Long Term• High Cost, Short Term• Low Cost, Short Term• More detailed

classification needed

High Cost, Short Term

High Cost, Long Term

Low Cost, Long Term

Low Cost, Short Term

Time

Soil Health and Fertility Management

• Soil Testing & Health Cards – LC, LT• Leaf Colour Charts – LC, ST• Soil Ameliorants – HC, LT• Neem / sulfur coated fertilizer briquettes – HC, LT• Phosphorus solublising Bio-fertilizers, compost

and recycling farm waste – LC, LT• Organic farming – new paradigm – LC, LT• Precision farming – new paradigm – HC, LT

Water Use Efficiency

• Land development – levelling, contour forming – HC, LT

• Raised bed and furrow, mulching – LC, LT• Short duration variety, crop alignment, early

sowing, SRI, SSI – LC, LT• Rainwater harvesting, farm ponds – HC, LT• MIS – HC, LT

Energy and Farm Power

• Farm Mechanization, Renewable Energies – HC, LT

• Separate grid for agriculture – HC, LT• Custom Hiring Centers – HC, LT• Manual Implements – LC, ST

Plant Protection

• IPM – LC, ST• E - Pest Surveillance, pest scouts – HC, LT• Bio pesticides, bio control agents – LC, LT• Mobile Plant health Clinics – HC, LT• Pest Resistant Varieties – LC, LT• Ensuring quality pesticides – HC, LT

Knowledge Management

• Demonstrations - HC, LT• Trainings and Farmer Field Schools – HC, LT• SMS and MMS – LC, ST• Print and Electronic media – HC, ST• Kissan Call Centers – HC, ST• SAUs, KVKs and ICAR – LT

General Recommendations

• States may identify the issues in detail• May choose one Short Term and one Long

Term strategy• May choose the strategies with care • Departments to be facilitators and umpires

than to be players

THANKS