Abstract
Climate change impacts are getting more evident in agriculture in the form of changed rainfall patterns, abnormal temperature regimes, heat waves, wind storms etc. across the South Asia (SA). The SA has the unique challenge to feed about 2.43 billion population by 2050 from lesser but degraded resource base that too under changing climatic conditions. Tillage-based intensive agricultural practices are well known to degrade resource base including land, and harm the biological processes and the environment. Green revolution era technologies, mainly adopted in Indo Gangetic plains (IGPs) of the SA, no doubt were instrumental to achieve food security in the region but, concomitantly, caused numerous soil and environmental related issues. Conservation Agriculture (CA) is being propagated as panacea to above mentioned problems, and also to achieve the goal of sustainable crop production intensification in the SA. Copious attempts have been made to develop CA-based practices, mostly in cereal-based systems in IGPs, in the last two decades in SA region. However, in recent years CA principles have also been applied to other crops and cropping systems in the region and encouraging results have been obtained. As CA is a new set of production system, this technology needs to be promoted in mission mode under enabling policy environment. Develpoing context specific and locally adapted practices supported by supply of customized machinery and capacity building is the right way forward to scale up CA in the region.
Keywords
- Climate change
- Conservation agriculture
- IGPs
- Land degradation
- Residue management
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Online ISBN: 978-3-030-77935-1
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental ScienceEarth and Environmental Science (R0)
