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How Sustainable Management of Natural Resources may achieve Food & Rural livelihood security in India?

Start Date :

Feb 10, 2015

Last Date :

Aug 31, 2015

00:00 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)

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As the Indian population continues to grow there will be an immense competition for natural resources while achieving food, nutritional, environmental and livelihood security in ...

As the Indian population continues to grow there will be an immense competition for natural resources while achieving food, nutritional, environmental and livelihood security in the country. In addition, the negative consequences of climate change become more evident in agriculture with exploitation of natural resources, decline in soil fertility, ground water levels to meet the ever increasing demands for food and nutritional requirements. To maintain sustainable balance between natural resources and the demand, immediate attention is needed in several areas viz., imbalanced use of fertilizers, declining soil organic carbon, lowering of water table, soil health, organic farming and climate change impact in agriculture sector.

Recent studies on soil biodiversity, rapid composting techniques, use of bio-filters for removal of heavy metals from compost, application of Nano sensors in agriculture to improve nutrient use efficiency, need based fortification of micro nutrients; availability of soil health card, conservation agriculture for enhancing soil health etc. will support sustainable management of natural resources in agriculture.

With a particular focus on scientific and technical understanding of natural resources management, this portal tries to incorporate stakeholders suggestions in achieving sustainable natural resources management.

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Piyush Gupta 11 years 4 months ago

Cattle constitute a relatively unexploited resource for the rural populace.I suggest the Govt to give projects to IITs to develop compact and efficient animal equipments.Most of the agri transportation is over short distances and can be managed if animal carts are not that messy.It will be cheap, environment friendly and will also solve the law & order problems created by illegal cattle slaughter.It may sound retrospective but out of the box thinking is the way forward to sustainable development

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Sourabh Tiwari 11 years 4 months ago

Earth Hour 2015 is at 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM on Saturday, March 28. Please support and Turn off non-required lights around your House and locality.Contribute little of your effort,for learning habit of Saving valuable Natural resources.For our better environment and future.

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ARUN KUMAR 11 years 4 months ago

The local administrations may identify and promote - 1. The local area plantations for manufacturing of Dry waste / Wet waste dustbins for public use. 2. Subsidy in transport system and proper to and fro movement of farmers to markets will impact on their earnings and thereby the produce. 3. Suggestions for Medicinal plants as inter-crop will benefit the farmer.

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ARUN KUMAR 11 years 4 months ago

We are now creating awareness on Energy saving like saving of electricity, saving of water, saving of trees, saving of air. Many appreciable steps are being taken on these, but what about saving of Land, the soil. 1. Usage of items other than natural products will pollute and depreciate the Land. 2. For producing a small piece of metal or non-metal piece the soil, Electrical energy and money is wasted. If expenditure on unnecessary buying in govt sector minimized,public money is saved.

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bharat agrawal 11 years 4 months ago

http://www.dawn.com/news/1170628/women-turn-thar-drought-into-a-lesson-on-sustainability Read the article published in a news paper across the border. we can also do some thing like this or may be we are doing it.

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Yash Shah 11 years 4 months ago

For clean environment:- 1.select a town. 2.note the pollution there 3.make law of planting plants in every window of a house(min.2 plants each window) 4.give muncipal coperations order to provide one plant each house 5.make penelty if min. plants are not found 6.check the pollution after 3 months plz take any one town which is polluted and do this expriment you will find clean air in that area then make it applicable in urban polluted cities many plants together will make difference

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Anish KS 11 years 4 months ago

if we achieve these two thing poverty and job will reduce gradually without any effort.

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Anish KS 11 years 4 months ago

2. FOOD. here only solution is every farmer should make own food for grains for their daily needs. Need separate plans for region wise food system. Ration system and subsidy has very much limitations. Make a system for collect their agri products buy on demand or stock it on silos. Co ordinate farmers with agri and climate announcing department. Teach them value addition for their products.

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Anish KS 11 years 4 months ago

Promote Traditional ways of farming like seed development, fertiliser making, Irrigation, low water using corp farming on dry areas. Promote forestry in agriculture this will raise our ground water level and this will reduce climate change and increase productivity from conventional farming. Use friendly insects instead of pesticides and chemicals.Use pheromone traps and other insect catching methods for pest control. Implement Organic farming through step by step to reduce investment.

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Anish KS 11 years 4 months ago

Need long term plan to agri sector, here some ideas like zero budget farming is very useful for them. Mulching, composting, parallel dairy farming will help them to produce fertilizer without any investment for fertilizer. Support to produce seeds for barter system on all over farmers. Implement Mixed crop farming for their farmland to reduce risk rate. This will also help them to earn extra income other than main yield. Learn them to produce own seedlinks.

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