Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
framework for the CRI is unique because it addresses the climate-carbon-yield-sustainability
nexus under different cropping systems and different management practices options. Crop
production is the function of weather conditions, soil, inputs, crop area, government
incentives. Technological inputs have been growing steadily and are difficult to quantify, but
the strict protocols of multi-specialized scientific officials involved in data recording and
experimentation. The identified primary, secondary and tertiary site-specific resilient
management practices under different cropping systems provide options to stakeholders,
especially farmers and policy makers. CRI provides researchers, particularly plant breeders,
with the opportunity to develop improved varieties; agronomists with the opportunity to
develop/identify better management options; and plant physiologists with the opportunity to
change crop geometry in future thinking and research to accommodate more partitioning to
yield. As far as the farmer’s field is concerned, the resiliency is entirely different because, in
addition to these four factors, several other socio-economic and location-specific
characteristics prevail. The yield gap with respect to site-specific INM options versus district
yield indicates that with site-specific intervention of already available management options,
food security can be sustained and also address the local level impact of climate variability
effects due to global climate change. There is a need to assess the same methodological
framework of the composite resilient index concept at farmers' fields with intensive and
accurate data collection of soil and management practices followed under different cropping
systems, especially pertaining to the first, second, and third predominant cropping systems.
T2a-06R-1010
Evaluation of Yield Performance in High Yielding Finger Millet Varieties
in NICRA Villages of Ganjam
S. Mangaraj 1 , P. K. Panda 1 , S. K. Satapathy 1 , P. J. Mishra 1 , F. H. Rahman 2 and
A. Mishra 1
1 Odisha University of Agriculture & Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751003, India;
2 ICAR- Agricultural Technology Application Research Institute Kolkata, Bhumi Vihar Complex, Salt
Lake, Kolkata–700097, India.
Finger millet, well known as ragi (Eleusine coracana L.) is a non-glutenaceous nutri-cereal
placed third in the country with respect to area and production and has noteworthiness in
having the highest productivity among major and minor millets after sorghum and bajra.
Finger millet is a nutritionally rich millet having 5-8% protein, 1.3% fat, 344 mg calcium, 70-
76% slow releasing carbohydrate, 15-35 % dietary fibre, 2.86% lysine and 1.5-3.5% mineral
which is being promoted as safe food for different co-morbid patients (Sebastin et al., 2005).
Millets are grown in harsh environments and the performance of the variety is linked to its
ability to adjust to fluctuating edaphic and climatic situations. Generally, farmers cultivate
Climate resilient agriculture for risk mitigation
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