Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
Rafique, M., Naveed, M., Mustafa, A., Akhtar, S., Munawar, M., Kaukab, S., Ali, R.M.,
Siddiqui, M.H. and Salem, M.Z.M. 2021. The combined effects ofgibberellic acid and
rhizobium on growth, yield & nutritional status in chickpea. Agronomy11(1):
105;https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomyl1010105.
Sarkar, D., Rakshit, A., Al-Turki, A.I., Sayyed, R.Z., Datta, R. 2021. Connecting biopriming
approach with integrated nutrient management for improved nutrient use
efficiency in crop species. Agriculture 11: 372.
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11040372.
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Integrated organic farming systems: Sustainable approach for harnessing
food-energy -carbon nexus in agricultural production systems
Subhash Babu 1 *, Anup Das 2 , V.K. Singh 3 , Jyoti D. Gaikwad 4 , S.S. Rathore 1 ,
P.K. Upadhayay 1 , R.K. Singh 1 and Raj Singh
1
Division of Agronomy, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi, India
2
ICAR Research Complex for NEH Region, Tripura Centre, Tripura, India
3
ICAR-Central Research Institute on Dryland Agriculture, Hyderabad, India
4
Department of Agronomy, NAU, Navsari, Gujrat, India
* subhiari@gmail.com
Globally the agricultural production system is challenged by the climate change adversities,
resource depletion, land degradation, low energy productivity and high Carbon foot print.
The farming sector is highly sensitive to climatic uncertainties and is also highly impacted by
population growth, resource scarcity, and environmental degradation (Babu et al.,2021).
COP27 emphasized on development of sustainable agriculture food systems that can reduce
its environmental footprint and resilient to climate vulnerabilities. Attaining a balance in the
food-energy trade-off while conserving the natural resources base and minimizing
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for attaining sustainable development goals is one of the
major challenges for the resource-poor farmers in India. Bridging the food-energy demand
and supply gap while preserving the ecosystem sustainability and food security is one of the
pressing challenges for researchers, and policymakers. Integration of the different farm
enterprises like crops, livestock, etc. plays a synergistic role in food production, growers'
livelihood, and provisioning of different ecosystem services (Martínez et al. 2007; Lu et al.
2019; Lal, 2020). Thus, edifice up the inextricable soil-water-food and energy nexus for a
strong agricultural production system should play a vital role in bringing in a balance
between higher productivity and ecosystem sustainability. Therefore, it was hypothesized that
Integrated organic farming system shall reduce farmland waste, and minimize the land
degradation while sustaining higher productivity, and profitability.
Sustainable soil management for resilient rainfed agro-ecosystem: conservation agriculture, organic farming,
INM, soil-microorganisms-plant interactions
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