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Livelihood Risk from HIV in Semi-Arid Tropics of Rural Andhra Pradesh [PDF]

This paper discusses the livelihood dynamics in the fragile landscape of the semi arid tropics (SAT) of Andhra Pradesh. SAT is home to the poorest of the poor who live in conditions of persistent drought, subsistence agriculture and poor access to ...
Gandhi, B. Valentine Joseph, Bantilan, M. Cynthia Serquina, Parthasarathy, Devanathan   +2 more
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Reimagining landscape sustainability through integrated farming system models and policies under changing climate scenarios

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In the context of climate change, natural resource degradation, and decreasing farm and input productivity, there is an urgent need to redesign agricultural systems with the use of integrated, landscape-level approaches.
Gajanan L Sawargaonkar, S. Rakesh, Santosh Kale, Akash Paul, Ankit Kumar Shridhar, Dimple Karnam Thulasiram, Prasad Kamdi, V. PadmajaKaranam, Rajesh Pasumarthi, Rohan Khopade, Anantha KH, Shalander Kumar, Ramesh Singh, Mangi Lal Jat   +13 more
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Microbial consortium culture and vermi-composting technologies for recycling on-farm wastes and food production

International Journal of Recycling of Organic Waste in Agriculture, 2018
Purpose A study was conducted to characterize the ‘Madhyam culture’ (Excel Crop Care Limited.), an aerobic-composting microbial consortium culture, and understand composting dynamics, product quality and use in crop production vis-à-vis vermi-composting (
Girish Chander, Suhas P. Wani, S. Gopalakrishnan, Ankita Mahapatra, Swati Chaudhury, C. S. Pawar, Manoj Kaushal, A. V. R. Kesava Rao   +7 more
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New Capabilities for Observing Precipitation Intensity and Structure Provided by the NASA TROPICS Microwave Radiometer Constellation Mission

The NASA TROPICS (Time-Resolved Observations of Precipitation structure and storm Intensity with a Constellation of Smallsats) Earth Venture (EVI-3) mission, was successfully launched into orbit on May 8 and May 25, 2023 (two CubeSats in each of the two ...
TROPICS Science Team, William Blackwell
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Improving Goat Production in the Tropics: A manual for development workers [PDF]

, 1996
Improving Goat Production in the Tropics is written both for livestock specialists and for development workers who have not been formally trained in animal production.
Peacock, Christie
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Sustainable intensification in coconut for building system resilience and nutritional security of smallholders in Eastern India

npj Sustainable Agriculture
Coconut-based cropping systems are vital to the coastal rural economy, which faces challenges like declining soil fertility, low productivity, pest invasions, and climate change.
Rohan Khopade, Gajanan Sawargaonkar, Santosh Kale, Moses Davala, S. Rakesh, Susree Snigdha Das, RamVikas Verma, Kapil Raje, Ramesh Singh, M. L. Jat   +9 more
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Inheritance of Resistance to Sorghum Shoot Fly, Atherigona soccata in Sorghum, Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2016
Host plant resistance is one of the major components to control sorghum shoot fly, Atherigona soccata. To understand the nature of gene action for inheritance of shoot fly resistance, we evaluated 10 parents, 45 F1’s and their reciprocals in replicated ...
Mohammed eRiyazaddin, Mohammed eRiyazaddin, Are Ashok Kumar, Rajendra S Munghate, Bhavanasi eRamaiah, Polavarapu B Kavi Kishor, Hari C Sharma   +6 more
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Alley cropping for food crop production in the humid and subhumid tropics

, 1989
Meeting: International Workshop on Alley Farming in the Humid and Subhumid Tropics, 10-14 Mar.
Atta-Krah, Akwasi, Kang, B.T., Kruijs, A.C.B.M. van der   +2 more
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Genomics-assisted breeding for boosting crop improvement in pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan)

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2015
Pigeonpea is an important pulse crop grown predominantly in the tropical and sub-tropical regions of the world. Although pigeonpea growing area has considerably increased, yield has remained stagnant for the last six decades mainly due to the exposure of
Lekha ePazhamala, Rachit K Saxena, Vikas K Singh, CV eSameerkumar, Vinay eKumar, Pallavi eSinha, Kishan ePatel, Jimmy eObala, Jimmy eObala, Seleman R Kaoneka, Seleman R Kaoneka, P eTongoona, Hussein eShimelis, NVPR eGangarao, Damaris eOdeny, Abhishek eRathore, PS eDharmaraj, KN eYamini, Rajeev K Varshney, Rajeev K Varshney   +19 more
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Seasonal dynamics of multidimensional water poverty in a semi-arid region of India

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
Seasonal variation in household water deprivation remains poorly understood, particularly in drought-prone semi-arid regions. This study examines the seasonal dynamics of multidimensional water poverty in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, using ...
Niranjan Padhan, Anantha KH, Venkata Radha Akuraju, Kaushal K. Garg, Aiendrila Dey, Ashok Shukla, Debi Prasad Sahoo, Sourav Roy, Nagarjuna N. Reddy, Israr Majeed, S. Madheswaran, Ramesh Singh   +11 more
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