Search Results - "Punjab"

‘Sticky Rice’: Variety inertia and groundwater crisis in a technologically progressive state of India by Joshi, Kuhu, Joshi, Pramod Kumar, Khan, Md. Tajuddin, Kishore, Avinash

“…This paper studies the high adoption of Pusa 44, a long-duration and old rice variety cultivated in Punjab, despite the availability of new short-duration varieties and the overall technological advancement of agriculture. …”
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Rising above the torrents by Begum, Khadija, Ilyas, Nouman, Hussain, Kashif, Jamal, Amjad

“…The gender dynamics, community strategies, and vulnerabilities in South Punjab’s hill torrent floods.…”
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Selection indices for identifying heat tolerant of maize (Zea mays) by Longmei, Ningthaipuilu, Gill, G.K., Kumar, R., Zaidi, Pervez H.

“…Hence, an experiment was conducted at Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana, Punjab to identify heat tolerant DH lines in maize during spring season, 2016 and 2017. …”
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Pakistan Rural Household Panel Survey (PRHPS) 2013, Round 2 by International Food Policy Research Institute, Innovative Development Strategies

“…The sample is representative of the rural areas of Punjab and Sindh provinces, and of the rural areas in 11 of the districts in KPK province. …”
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Unwatering the fields: analyzing incentives for crop diversification amid groundwater crisis in India by Gupta, D., Mitra, Archisman

“…Groundwater depletion has become a serious concern in north-western India, particularly in Punjab and Haryana, largely due to the dominance of paddy cultivation and unsustainable irrigation practices driven by agricultural electricity subsidies. …”
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Public-private partnership in water management in Pakistan, experiences and constraints by Khan, Abdul Hakeem, Masih, Ilyas, Munir, Sarfraz

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Conservation Agriculture Benefits Indian Farmers, but Technology Targeting Needed for Greater Impacts by Krishna, Vijesh V., Keil, Alwin, Jain, Meha, Weiqi Zhou, Jose, Monish, Surendran-Padmaja, Subash, Barba-Escoto, Luis, Singh, Balwinder, Jat, Mangi Lal, Erenstein, Olaf

“…In the relatively developed state of Punjab, technology targeting based on landholding size does not appear to add substantive economic benefits. …”
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Performance of site-specific nutrient management for irrigated, transplanted rice in Northwest India by Khurana, Harmandeep S., Phillips, Steven B., Bijay-Singh, Dobermann, Achim, Sidhu, Ajmer S., Yadvinder-Singh, Peng, Shaobing

“…On‐farm experiments were conducted from 2002 to 2004 at 56 sites in six key irrigated rice‐wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) domains of Punjab to evaluate an approach for site‐specific nutrient management (SSNM). …”
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Gendered exclusion in agricultural water governance: A case study in district Okara, Pakistan by Waqar, Kanwal, Hafeez, Mohsin

“…Policy analysis shows the National Water Policy 2018, and provincial water acts i.e, Punjab Water Act 2019 & KP Water Act 2020 are gender-blind. …”
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How smallholder farmers adapt to climate change: Stories from India—Dr. R.P. Singh by Singh, R.P.

“…Singh, Deputy Faculty, Dept of Plant breeding and Genetics at the Punjab Agricultural University describes the decreased water availability due to climate change and how they are working to select crop varieties that need less water and to help farmer to make better use of irrigation.…”
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Identification of waterlogging stress tolerant maize (Zea mays L.) hybrids using different selection indices by Singamsetti, Ashok, Shahi, J. P., Zaidi, Pervez Haider, Seetharam, K., Kumar, Munnesh

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Effectiveness of non-farm diversification on rural household income: Evidence and policy implications from India by Kapoor, Shreya, Kapoor, Sanjeev

“…Further, it suggests the need to segmenting the different states on the basis of agricultural development for increasing rural incomes.The study argues that Indian states with a strongly developed farm sector i.e. Gujarat and Punjab are not ideally suited to undergo structural changes in their economic pursuit. …”
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Effects of planting pattern and cultivar on weed and crop growth in aerobic rice system by Mahajan, Gulshan, Chauhan, Bhagirath S.

“…Field experiments were conducted in Punjab, India, in the wet seasons of 2008 and 2009 to study the growth of weeds and two rice cultivars [PR 115 and Punjab (P.) …”
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Pakistan agri-food system: Assessment report by Davies, Stephen, Ejaz, Amna

“…Spending on subsidies for water, fertilizer, electricity, and wheat procurement reached US$1.25 billion in Punjab alone, far more than the funding provided for research and development. …”
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Irrigation management in Pakistan and India: comparing notes on institutions and policies by Shah, Tushaar, Hussain, Intizar, Saeed ur Rehman

“…The authors suggest that the two countries can learn important lessons by comparing notes on several issues: [a] what would work best in ensuring equitable access to irrigation - physical rehabilitation being tried out in Pakistan Punjab with the help of the army under the military rule offers interesting possibilities in terms of scale and impact as does the Andhra Pradesh model of irrigation reform, [b] the experience in both countries so far defies the uncritically accepted premise that under farmer-management, irrigation systems will be more equitable, [c] why farmers in Pakistan Punjab have to use 16-20 horsepower (hp) diesel engines to pump groundwater from 25-40 feet while north Indian farmers have been doing the same with 5 hp engines?…”
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How smallholder farmers adapt to climate change: Stories from India—Mohamed Fakir by Fakir M

“…Mohamed Fakir is a a dairy farmer in Punjab India. He describes in the video how his cows milk production is steadily decreasing, largely due to the the changing climate and to the lack of water and water infrastructure. …”
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Opportunities and challenges in saving water and improving productivity through resource conservation technologies: Examples from Pakistan by Ahmad, Mobin-ud-Din, Masih, Ilyas, Turral, Hugh, Giordano, Mark, Masood, Zubair

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Towards linking livelihood and rural water security - an assessment by Malik, Ravinder Paul Singh

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Sensitise farmers about the new laws by Kumar, Anjani, Bathla, Seema, Sonkar, Vinay Kumar

“…The enactment of three marketing farm laws 2020 has provoked serious discussion, criticism and even protest especially in Punjab and Haryana to the extent that the Supreme Court had to intervene and put them on hold for some time.…”
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Principal Component Analysis: IPSR Innovation Profile by Hafeez, Mohsin, Awan, W.

“…IWMI piloted this approach together with the Government of Punjab, Pakistan, where it is empowering government stakeholders to make collaborative decisions for targeted groundwater interventions. …”
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