RESOURCE CONSERVING TECHNOLOGY CAN RAISE CROP YIELDS

Researchers using appropriate resource conserving technology (RCT) which can reduce cost of crop establishment conserve natural resources and increase productivity, suggest that wheat is generally sown late in more than half of the eastern Gangetic plains. The authors said that this method can help increase agricultural production in 15 million ha of underutilized land in the Indo-Gangetic plains where productivity has decreased due to natural resource degradation. If the technologies are precisely applied, they can result in more than $ 3,000 million of additional income every year to these poverty prone areas.

September 30

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