Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges & Opportunities
during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
number was reduced to 30.16% in winter and 18.38% in hot humid season whereas 48.53%
increases in hot dry seasons.
Similarly, average bund weight for 40 days i.e. from day one to day 40 varied between 35.01
grams (winter season), 523.86 grams (hot humid season) and highest was reported during hot
dry season that is in March and April 2022(hottest in last 122 years).
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Percent Water Content
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Plant water content (in percent) remained between 75 to 85 percent, which indicates that crop
was well adapted to maintain its water content as well as its dry matter content during first 22
to 24 days during hot dry period, thereafter the water content starts declining from 75 to 45
percent after 25 days onwards, may be due to more temperature and low humidity, which
caused dehydration in plants and second reason may be the increases in fiber content (lignin
content) of the plant days 25 onwards. Similar, trend was observed during the month of
December and plant water content declined from day 26 to 40 th day and ranged between 80.52
to 66%.
Conclusion
In India under the changing climate scenario, green fodder production and its availability to the
livestock round the year is a challenge particularly in India. The results of this experiment
concluded that the ramie plant is capable of supplying green fodder round the year, during
extreme climatic / environmental conditions round the year. The crop is capable of giving 12 to
Ecosystem based approaches for climate change adaptation, ecosystem services, integrated farming system
models, Land degradation neutrality
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