Search Results - "Bihar"

Proceedings from the National Symposium on Makhana: Unlocking India’s aquatic superfood for rural prosperity by Pahwa, Vanshika, Sirsikar, Ishita, Singh, Ritambhara, Shukla, Navneet Prabhakar, Verma, Kannan Kumar, Sachdev, Avinash

“…The symposium was held 20 May, 2025 at the Lemon Tree Premier in Patna, Bihar, India.…”
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The changing energy: Irrigation nexus in Eastern India by Kishore, Avinash

“…According to the Central Groundwater Board, Bihar and West Bengal use only 40% of their total net annual groundwater availability (10.77 BCM of 27.42 BCM in Bihar and 11.65 BCM of 27.46 BCM in West Bengal). …”
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Climate resilient agriculture program by Joshi, Arun Kumar

“…Agriculture is the backbone of Bihar’s economy, 79% of the state’s population is involved in agricultural activities, which is more than the national average. …”
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Farmer's Preferences for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Hybrid Versus Traditional Rice by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The survey, Farmer's Preferences for Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Hybrid versus Traditional Rice: Evidence from Bihar, India (2012-13), was designed to assess farmer's willingness to pay for drought-tolerant paddy in Bihar, India. …”
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Inception workshop: Enhancing the benefits of remote sensing data and flood hazard modeling in index-based flood insurance (IBFI) by International Water Management Institute

“…Representatives from State and Central government agencies, NGOs, private insurance companies, farmers and development partners met on August 1st 2015 in Bihar, India to exchange ideas and expertise in an inception workshop for a new project on developing ‘Index-Based Flood Insurance (IBFI) in South Asia’. …”
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Valuating agricultural water use and ecological services in agrarian economies: evidences from eastern India by Xenarios, Stefanos, Amarasinghe, Upali A., Sharma, Bharat R.

“…The paper attempts to assess the value of irrigation and related ecological services in representative backward clusters of Bihar state in Eastern India. The effects on different landholding groups are analyzed by giving particular emphasis to marginal landholders.…”
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Managing time in the rice-based cropping systems: Gender responsive approach and strategy by Munshi, Sugandha, Samaddar, Arindam, Srivastava, Amit, Yadav, Anil Kumar, Sohane, R. K., Patil, Vikram, Peramaiyan, Panneerselvam, Kumar, Virender

“…Focussing on this, for the Eastern Indo Gangetic Plain (EIGP) in the state of Bihar, India, under the Excellence, of agronomy optimum planting dates recommendations for planting rice on time leading to the timely planting of wheat on time avoiding terminal heat has been implemented in the region along with partners such as Bihar Agriculture University and Bihar Rural Livelihood Promotions Society popularly known as Jeevika. …”
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Simulation of nitrogen balance in rice-wheat systems of the Indo-Gangetic plains by Pathak, H., Li, C., Wassmann, R., Ladha, J.K.

“…The largest depletion of soil N was estimated in Bihar, followed by Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, and West Bengal. …”
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Can digitally enabling community health and nutrition workers improve services delivery to pregnant women and mothers of infants? Quasi-experimental evidence from a national-scale... by Patil, Sumeet R., Nimmagadda, Sneha, Gopalakrishnan, Lakshmi, Avula, Rasmi, Bajaj, Sumati, Diamond-Smith, Nadia, Paul, Anushman, Menon, Purnima, Walker, Dilys

“…Coverage of children receiving growth monitoring increased in Bihar (22pp (95% CI 0.18 to 0.25)), but not in MP. …”
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Does climate-smart village approach influence gender equality in farming households? A case of two contrasting ecologies in India by Hariharan, Vinod K., Mittal, Surabhi, Rai, Munmun, Agarwal, Tripti, Kalvaniya, Kailash C., Stirling, Clare M., Jat, Mangi Lal

“…Both women and men in Bihar are less empowered than they are in Haryana. …”
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2017/18 Social Accounting Matrix for Indian State Uttar Pradesh: A Nexus Project SAM by International Food Policy Research Institute

“…The 2017/18 Indian State Bihar SAM follows the Standard Nexus Structure. The open access version of the Indian State Bihar SAM separates domestic production into 42 activities. …”
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Promotion of Weather Resilient Technologies, Practices, and Services: Wheat Crop by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security, BAIF Development Research Foundation

“…Similarly, in Nalanda district of Bihar, an increase in average temperatures during the grain-filling period resulted in lower weight of the seeds and therefore lower yields. …”
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Sustainable intensification of wheat through early sowing: insights from the Eastern Indo-Gangetic plains by Paudel, Gokul, Chamberlin, Jordan, Grote, Ulrike, Nguyen, Trung Thanh

“…Our findings suggest targeted policy interventions to optimize the yield and environmental benefits of early wheat sowing in the Eastern Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states within the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains.…”
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Smallholder dairy farmers’ access to modern milk marketing chains in India by Kumar, Anjani, Staal, Steven J., Singh, D.K.

“…Its presence is even more pronounced in less-developed states like Bihar. However, the traditional milk supply chain is being replaced, albeit slowly, with the commercialization of dairying. …”
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Economic effects of water use and landholding scale to farming in South Asia: evidences from Indo-Gangetic basin by Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Amarasinghe, Upali A.

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Assessing institutional and environmental parameters of agricultural water use in South Asia: evidences from the Indo-Gangetic Basin by Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R.

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Environmental services and agricultural water in South Asia: evidence from Indo-Gangetic Basin by Xenarios, Stefanos, Sharma, Bharat R., Singh, A.

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Climate Smart Village project in India by CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security

“…This series of interventions highlighted in this video are part of CGIAR-CCAFS initiatives being implemented under the banner of Climate Smart Villages in Vaishali, Bihar…”
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Evaluating the potential and eligibility of conservation agriculture practices for carbon credits by Cariappa, Adeeth AG, Konath, Noufa C., Sapkota, Tek B., Krishna, Vijesh V.

“…Zero tillage of wheat in both Punjab and Bihar and reduction of nitrogen fertilizer overuse in Punjab fulfil all the conditions and are eligible for carbon farming projects.…”
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Developing the India smallholder dairy value chain impact pathway(s) by Kidoido, Michael M.

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