Duration: 2018-2022
Location: Bundelkhand, Uttar Pradesh, India
Partners:
- ICRISAT
- ICAR-Central Agroforestry Research Institute
- ICAR-Indian Grassland Fodder Research Institute
- Banda University of Agriculture and Technology and KVKs
- BAIF
- NGOs
Summary:
Bundelkhand region in Uttar Pradesh comprises seven districts (Banda, Chitrakoot, Jhansi, Jalaun, Mahoba, Hamirpur, and Lalitpur) having geographical area of 2.9 million ha inhabitant with 7.8 million population; and is one of the poverty hotspots in India. Nearly 70% of the population of Bundelkhand is dependent on agriculture and allied sectors for its livelihood. Given are strategies that focus on transforming agricultural and allied sectors are key to improving livelihoods of rural populations, the Government of India laid the pathway for doubling farmer’s incomes.
Bundelkhand is one of the water-scarce regions, a hot spot of poverty, malnutrition, land degradation, and out-migration. To address these issues, ICRISAT, along with ICAR-CAFRI, developed a pilot site at Parasai-Sindh watershed. This watershed demonstrated the importance of low-cost water harvesting structures, including renovation of the traditional haveli system and other ex-situ water harvesting structures. The activity enhanced groundwater recharge and cropping intensity by two to three folds and ensured water availability for domestic, livestock, and agriculture. Realizing these benefits of integrated watershed management, the Government of UP has assigned an innovative project to ICRISAT for developing “sites of learning” in seven districts of the Bundelkhand region as part of doubling farmers’ income initiative.
The overall goal of this initiative is to pilot and demonstrate an integrated science-led approach for increasing productivity and profitability. The specific objectives of the proposed initiative are:
- Establish pilot sites (5000 ha in cluster of villages per district) as “sites of learning” by integrating science-led interventions for increasing productivity and income;
- Enhancing crop intensification and diversification through various natural resources management interventions and strengthen various ecosystem services; and
- To build capacity of the stakeholders in the target pilot villages through scaling-up of integrated science-led approach.
Recent Posts
Recent Publications
2020 |
Building climate resilience in degraded agricultural landscapes through water management: A case study of Bundelkhand region, Central India. Garg Kaushal, Singh Ramesh, Anantha KH, Singh Anand, Akuraju Venkata Radha, Barron Jennie, Dev Inder, Tewari RK, Wani Suhas, Dhyani SK and Dixit Sreenath (2020): In: Journal of Hydrology, 591 , pp. 1-12, 2020, ISSN: 0022-1694. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)@article{Garg2020,
title = {Building climate resilience in degraded agricultural landscapes through water management: A case study of Bundelkhand region, Central India},
author = {Kaushal K Garg and Ramesh Singh and KH Anantha and Anand K Singh and Venkata Radha Akuraju and Jennie Barron and Inder Dev and RK Tewari and Suhas P Wani and SK Dhyani and Sreenath Dixit},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022169420310532?dgcid=author},
issn = {0022-1694},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-12-01},
journal = {Journal of Hydrology},
volume = {591},
pages = {1-12},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
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Agricultural water management interventions for enhancing water resources availability, cropping, intensity and various ecosystem services in Bundelkhand region of Central India. Kaushal K.Garg, Ramesh Singh, KH Anantha, I Dev and Sreenath Dixit (2020): Drought Management: Future Challenges and Strategies, Proceedings of India Water Week, 25th Sept 2019, India, 2020. (Type: Conference | Links | BibTeX)@conference{KK2020,
title = {Agricultural water management interventions for enhancing water resources availability, cropping, intensity and various ecosystem services in Bundelkhand region of Central India},
author = {K.Garg Kaushal and Singh Ramesh and Anantha KH and Dev I and Dixit Sreenath},
url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/11496/},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-03-30},
booktitle = {Drought Management: Future Challenges and Strategies, Proceedings of India Water Week, 25th Sept 2019, India},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {conference}
}
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Gender Transformative Impacts from Watershed Interventions: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study in the Bundelkhand Region of India. R Padmaja, K Kavitha, S Pramanik, VD Duche, YU Singh, AM Whitbread, Ramesh Singh, Kaushal K.Garg and S Leder (2020): In: Transactions of the ASABE (TSI), 63 (1), pp. 153-163, 2020, ISBN: 2151-0040. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)@article{R2020,
title = {Gender Transformative Impacts from Watershed Interventions: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Study in the Bundelkhand Region of India},
author = {Padmaja R and Kavitha K and Pramanik S and Duche VD and Singh YU and Whitbread AM and Singh Ramesh and K.Garg Kaushal and Leder S },
url = {http://oar.icrisat.org/11393/},
isbn = {2151-0040},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-03-13},
journal = {Transactions of the ASABE (TSI)},
volume = {63},
number = {1},
pages = {153-163},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
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Dairying in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh: Constraints to realizing the potential. Rathod Prakashkumar and Sreenath Dixit (2020): In: 2020. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)@article{Rathod2020b,
title = {Dairying in Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh: Constraints to realizing the potential},
author = {Prakashkumar Rathod and Dixit Sreenath},
url = {http://idc.icrisat.org/idc/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IJAS-Bundelkhand-Paper-Final-98162-253271-1-SM.pdf},
year = {2020},
date = {2020-01-31},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
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2017 |
Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scaling-up: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for Transforming Agriculture). Suhas P.Wani, Vijay Sandeep Jakkula and Dhirendra Singh (Ed.) (2017): In: 2017. (Type: Journal Article | Links | BibTeX)@article{Suhas2017,
title = {Proceedings of National Workshop on Doubling Farmers’ Income through Scaling-up: KISAN–MITrA (Knowledge-based Integrated Sustainable Agriculture Network – Mission India for Transforming Agriculture)},
editor = {P.Wani Suhas and Sandeep Jakkula Vijay and Singh Dhirendra},
url = {http://idc.icrisat.org/idc/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Kisan-Mitra.pdf},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-11-30},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {article}
}
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