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International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
index), crop structure (backscatter ratio) and plant canopy/ biomass (fraction of absorbed
photosynthetically active radiation). Crop health data will be corroborated with yield data to
check robustness.
Overall, PMFBY needs to be more flexible to accommodate the wider diversity of the states.
Since last few years, PMFBY improved in many respects depending on the experience and also
requests from the states like online updation and direct payments, integration of data with the
state portals, use of technology in loss estimation, tenant farmers coverage, timely settlement
of grievances, penal interest payments to farmers for delay in claims payment and universal
coverage etc. However, still a long way to go to accommodate all the states in the PMFBY.
T6-16P-1053
Performance and Economic Evaluation of Agri-Horti System under
Rainfed Condition of Marathwada Region
A.S. Gunjkar*, W.N. Narkhede, P.H. Gourkhede and M.S. Pendke
All India Coordinated Research Project on Dryland Agriculture
Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani
*amrapaliomshinde@gmail.com
Drumstick is one of the important perennial vegetable (horticulture) crop grown in the region.
It’s origin is the sub-Himalayan tracts of north-western India, Pakistan, drumstick can further
be increased as it grow well in all types of soil, from acid to alkaline (Duke 1983) and can
tolerate up to 6 months of dry season. It grows well at altitudes from 0 to 1800 msl and rainfall
between 500 and 1500 mm per year. It is therefore useful for semi-arid and arid ecosystem,
which covers 37.0% geographical area and 16.7% arid area (Velayutham 1999) by facilitating
irrigation. In nutritional and medicinal view, almost every part of the drumstick plant has value
for food. The pods, seeds, leaves and flowers are consumed by humans as nutritious vegetables
in some countries (Makkar and Becker 1997). Drumstick is mainly grown for edible pods;
however, it has huge commercial value for seed also as it contains 38 to 40% oil (Irvine 1961).
Drumstick seed powder is said to be an effective organic clarifier of even very turbid water by
removing up to 99% of bacteria in the process (Folkland and Sutherland 1996). Looking to the
importance of drumstick plants, the experiment was planned in combination with crops and
cropping system under agri-horti system for sustainability under rainfed ecosystem.
Methodology
An experiment was conducted at AICRP on Dryland Agriculture, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada
Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani during the year 2012-2017. The studies consisted of sole crop of
drumstick of distance 3x3 m. and drumstick four intercrops 1:6 ratio and their correlation with
yield. The experiment was laid out in Four replication in Randomized block design.
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