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Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture (CRIDA) is a National Research Institute under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) established in 1985 with a mandate to carry out basic and applied research in rainfed farming. The Institute also undertakes National / International Collaborations and Consultancy Projects. All India Coordinated Research Programmes (AICRPs) of ICAR on Dryland Agriculture and Agrometeorology with 25 partners each are in CRIDA. This is the lead Institute and the National Nodal point for the National
Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) which is being implemented at large number of Research Institutes of ICAR, State Agricultural Universities and 100 KVKs. |
Brainstorming session on Water Policy
for Rainfed Agriculture, Brain storming session on Agroclimatic Atlas of India
and Plenary session of AICRPDA and AICRPAM Workshops were organized during 3-4
June 2022

A brainstorming session on Water
Policy for Rainfed Agriculture was jointly organised in hybrid mode by
ICAR-CRIDA and Indian Society of Dryland Agriculture (ISDA) on 4th
June 2022. The session was chaired by Dr. S.K.Chaudhari, DDG(NRM), ICAR.
Dr.B.Rath Technical Expert, NRAA (National Rainfed Area Authority) and Member
for Water policy Development , Dr. V.K. Singh Director, ICAR-CRIDA, scientists
from ICAR-CRIDA, AICRPDA, AICRPAM centres and other ICAR institutes, officials
from NABARD, NGO's
and other organisations participated. About 200 participants attended the brain
storming session. Dr K.V.Rao, Secretary ISDA welcomed the participants. Dr. V.K.Singh. briefed about the objectives of the session and suggested a separate
water policy frame work for rainfed agriculture and need for regionally
differentiated water policy with a view to utilise available resources in an
optimal manner. Dr. S.K Chaudhari, DDG (NRM) in his opening remarks mentioned
about the need of prioritization of rainfed areas, high variability of rainfall
in rainfed areas and also stressed that the ground water management cannot be
dealt in isolation without energy management. This was followed by
presentations on Regional scenarios & policy needs by Dr. P.R. Ojasvi ,
ICAR-IISWC, Dr. Priyabarta Santra, ICAR-CAZRI, Dr. Ashuthosh Upadhyay, Director,
ICAR RC ER, Dr B.U Choudhary ICAR-NEHR and Dr. N.G. Patil, ICAR- NBSS&LUP and
key inputs were given by discussants viz. Dr. A.K.Sikka, IWMI India
representative, Dr. N.H. Rao, Joint Director (Retd), ICAR-NAARM, Dr. B. Rath,
Technical Expert, NRAA, Dr. P K Mishra, Director (Retd.), ICAR-IISWC, Dr.
Dinesh Kumar IRAP, Hyderabad, Dr. A Ravindra, WASSAN, Hyderabad.
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Progress of rainfall since 01-June-2021 in different meteorological sub-divisions
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Santanu Kumar Bal, J.V.N.S. Prasad and Vinod Kumar Singh
(2022). Heat
Wave 2022: Causes, impacts and way forward for Indian Agriculture,
ICAR-CRIDA Technical Bulletin 01-2022, p 50
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Sarkar, B., Savita, S. K.,
Varalaxmi, Y., Vanaja, M., Ravi Kumar, N.,
Sathish, P., Jyothi Lakshmi, N., Prabhakar,
M., Shanker, A. K., Yadav, S. K. and
Maheswari. M. 2022. Stress Reactions of
Maize Genotypes to Drought Stress at
Different Phenophases and Recovery. Russ
J Plant Physiol 69, 54-63. https://doi.org/10.1134/S1021443722030128
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Subba Rao,
A.V.M., Sarath Chandran, M.A., Bal, S.K.,
Pramod, V.P., Sandeep, V.M., Manikandan, N.,
Raju, B.M.K., Prabhakar, M., Islam, A.
Naresh Kumar, S., Singh, V.K. (2022).
Evaluating area-specific adaptation
strategies for maize under future climates
of India. Science
of The Total Environment. 836:
155511. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155511
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Bal, S.K., Manikandan,
N., Sandeep, V.M., Vijayakumar, P.,
Lunagaria, M.M., Subba Rao, A.V.M. , Pramod,
V.P. and Singh, V.K. (2022). Criteria based
decisions for determining agroclimatic onset
of the crop growing season. Agricultural
and Forest Meteorology, 317,
108903. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agrformet.2022.108903
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Venkatesh, G.; Gopinath, K.A.;
Reddy, K.S.; Reddy, B.S.; Prabhakar, M.;
Srinivasarao, C.; Visha Kumari, V.; Singh,
V.K. 2022. Characterization of Biochar
Derived from Crop Residues for Soil
Amendment, Carbon Sequestration and Energy
Use. Sustainability, 14, 2295. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14042295
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