CRP on Dryland Cereals - DC

Overview: FP3 - Integrated Crop Management

FP2 - FP4


Leader Girish Chander, International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics - ICRISAT

Team members: 23
Partner organizations: 24

Budget 2024
USD : 0

Clusters: 6

  Description
    
Lack of good soil-management practices or mismanagement threatens soil health and environmental sustainability, as evidenced by declining soil-carbon reserves and multi-nutrient deficiencies in dryland regions. Therefore, building the resilience of dryland-cereals production systems depends largely on soil health and watermanagement practices. This flagship focuses on interventions of crop-soil-water management at the watershed-catchment level to enhance the productivity (IDO1), and adaptability to environmental variability (IDO5), of dryland cereals. Extensive soil mapping and balanced fertilizer recommendations through micro-dosing will be important focus areas for soil management, along with waste recycling and biomass generation, where possible, for the reduced use of chemical fertilizers and the development of sustainable systems. On the water-management front, drylandcereals production will be linked with in-situ and ex-situ water-management options including micro-irrigation through synergistic efforts with Dryland Systems. The success of the Bhoochetana initiative for improving crop productivity and livelihoods in Karnataka, India, provides a model that can potentially be tailored and out-scaled to other parts of Asia and Africa for enhanced productivity and environmental sustainability. Crop-management practices including seed treatment, integrated insect and disease management and other required agronomic practices will be promoted for higher productivity of dryland cereals. Mechanization of farm operations for reduced production costs and enhanced efficiency will be addressed for sustainable intensification of dryland cereals production. Finally, climate-information services will be utilized to enable farmers to take ameliorative measures against climate aberrations to minimize production losses and optimize resource utilization. This Flagship will plan joint research with Flagship 2 to ensure that varieties and hybrids integrate the newly proposed management practices.
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  Atlas
    
  Clusters
    
Code Cluster Name Leader Co-leader View
FP3-1 Sorghum-West Central Africa Aboubacar Toure
FP3-2 Pearl Millet-West Central Africa Malick Niango BA
FP3-3 Finger Millet-East Southern Africa Henry Fred Ojulong
FP3-4 Barley-Africa, Asia Ramesh Pal Singh Verma
FP3-6 Pearl Millet South Asia, East and Southern Africa SK Gupta
FP3-7 Sorghum South Asia Ashok Kumar Are
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