Ukkali, a village in India’s Karnataka state, is witnessing a marked change in the economic status of its farm households. A watershed management initiative of the Power Grid Corporation of India and ICRISAT has made more water available for farming and provided women skill-based employment, pushing household incomes up in […]
POWERGRID-ICRISAT project in Karnataka empowers through integrated watershed management Farm-dependent households in Ukkali now have an added source of income, thanks to the village’s enterprising women who availed of the POWER GRID-ICRISAT watershed project. Underway in the northern Karnataka village, the watershed project ‘Improving rural livelihoods through farmer-centric integrated watershed […]
The NITI Aayog recently commended the impact of community best practices for watershed management, in Jhansi, Uttar Pradesh, India. “Local community in the water scarce Parasai-Sindh region of Jhansi, #UttarPradesh increased groundwater level by 2-5 meters & made 100 acres of land cultivable by constructing check dams, farm ponds and […]
Short Course on Application of Bio Technology in Rural Areas: Rapid Composting of Waste in Rural Areas Course Overview ICRISAT Development Center (IDC) is offering hands-on training to educated rural youth who are seriously looking for opportunities for starting their own enterprise by imparting knowledge and skills on rapid composting […]
FeedLink – to link fodder surplus-deficit regions Innovation that helped to convert wasteland grass into enriched silage after value addition and densification The International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI) is one of the CG consortium partners of the ICRISAT-led Bhoosamrudhi project funded by Government of Karnataka. Responding to a request from […]
Earlier a menace, swamps in Mentapally are now water sources for agriculture. The turnaround in the south Indian village comes on the heels of a three-year-old wetland construction which treats over 6.5 million liters of wastewater a year. This has been recognized through Dr Aviraj Datta, ICRISAT scientist, receiving the […]
Knowledge and training related to management of water and other natural resources will be shared with communities around the dry region of Tadipatri in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. This was announced in an MoU signed between UltraTech Cement and ICRISAT on 13 February 2019 at ICRISAT. ICRISAT Development Center (IDC) will […]
Farmers from five Indian states came together to celebrate the success of one of the world’s first pigeonpea hybrids and to exchange views on good agricultural practices to benefit from agri-technology. At a two-day ‘Cross Learning Workshop’ at ICRISAT they were joined by representatives of non-governmental organizations, State Agricultural Universities, […]
A group of enthusiastic homemakers from a large housing colony that generates two tons of garbage per day attended an hour-long session on how to compost kitchen waste safely while minimizing the odor and the ordeal. Dr Rajesh Pasumarthi, a microbiologist and a visiting scientist at the ICRISAT Development Center, […]
For Indian farmers reeling under deficit rainfall in Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh, rainwater harvesting and groundwater recharging structures bring all the relief they can get. The dryland district registered 212.6 mm rainfall this year, a huge deficit of 38.6%. Despite the deficit, smallholder farmers, using integrated water resource management techniques, are […]
