Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
villagers was so strong that they also started mobilizing themselves to adopt it for crop
production and diversification against the vulnerabilities.
Results
Resilient intervention viz. Water conservation/ Harvesting, Renovation, Parapet construction,
Canal cleaning and sand bag check dam resulted in providing lifesaving irrigation during water
stress condition, increased area under double or multiple crop, enhanced cropping intensity,
increased crop productivity, increased ground water level, increase water storage capacity and
water level rise by 7 to 10 feet.
Climate resilient crop varieties were found as one of the most important technological factor
for ensuring the better crop harvest and income. Results of the findings clearly show that
improved and tolerant crop varieties along with the proper crop management practices can
enhance the coping ability through risk reduction in vulnerable environment. Ensuring the
availability of the resilient varieties in various crops at the appropriate time to the farmers is an
important challenge to address climate vulnerabilities. Under the NICRA project focus was
given to identify the suitable resilient major crop varieties for up scaling in the district.
Details of water harvesting structures
Unit
No.
Structure
Name
Dimension (in meter)
Storage
Capacity
(m 3 )
Net utilized
water (m 3 )
Area Covered
(ha)
Before After Before After Before After Before After
Storage
capacity
increase
d (%)
2
Community
Pond
35x40x2.5 36.5x41x3 6420 8025 3210 4815 32 48 50.00
2 Pond - 30.5x36.5x3 - 5200 - 3104 - 31 100.00
1 Pond 28.6x28.9x2.1 30.5x30.5x3 1440 2831 792 1700 08 17 112.50
1 Pond 38.7x35x2.1 39.5x36.5x2.5 2323 3207 1287 1934 12 19 58.33
1 Pond
82.2x71.6x2.1
91.5x76.2x2.5
1200
0
1625
0
4920 7313 49 73 48.98
25 Dova - 7.6x6x3 -- 2500 -- 2000 -- 20 100.00
03 Pond - 15.2x15.2x3 -- 1200 -- 1000 -- 9 100.00
Total
- 35
-
2228
1
3891
3
1020
9
2816
6
101 217
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