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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

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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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Anish KS 11 years 4 months ago

Our major food & Rural issues are water, food, job and poverty. All these are inter connected. 1. water resources are getting low, i mean groundwater and rain resources. In this stage our farmers agri or farming out put is getting minimal or low, sometime farming get fails. So farmer need to take more risk on every time. here if we support them to cut their expenses like seed, pesticide and fertilisers. If we teach them to zero investment on these thing they will survive.only need them 2 years

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Chanderkanta Kaushal 11 years 4 months ago

As planting more trees for green and healthy india ;we can make it more effective by planting more of trees with medicinal value like neem and many more i cant just recollect the names of trees right now ;there are some parks in Dwarka delhi which has all medicinal value big trees so walking and breathing in that park gives you some health benefits ,so why to limit such good concept to a limited park area .when we are growing trees then why not maximum of them medicinal and fruit giving trees .

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Sekar_4 11 years 4 months ago

1.Allocate only unused lands to industries else no land after connecting rivers 2.Allow industries near to Sea 3.Start more agriculture polytechnic colleges to train machineries 4.Connect Rivers 5.Build many Canals from river 6.Build many tanks from Canals 7.Redistribute unused lands to poor farmers 8.Give free machineries to farmers 9.Give free seeds 10.Get good return of Agro outputs 11.After completion of 1 to 10, No hungry, No poverty,no mission 272 plan required, 545 will be yours

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ANUJ AGARWAL 11 years 4 months ago

Also till date after registration of land kissan has to get the mutation done through patwari. It does not make any sense as the registration has already been done. Every time a patwari is asked to perform mutation he charges money depending on the condition of the farmer. this is causing harassment. kindly remove this.

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ANUJ AGARWAL 11 years 4 months ago

Recently I had attended a workshop on olives in rajasthan headed by Mr shekhawat, Mr sheetal and many more government officials also from MNOOP. Many of them were so knowledgeable but lacked basic idea and were not keen to take risks. many basic ideas like in Israel there are two water pipelines red colour has untreated waste water which is suitable for agri needs and white pipeline which is purified water. this way they utilise every bit of their water.

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Azhagarasi Azhagiri 11 years 4 months ago

To whom so ever it concerns. 1.To build rain drains and maintain the existing drains. 2.Stricter implementation of rain water harvest system. 3.Educate the farmers to use organic manure. 4.Awareness of the danger of over use of chemicals.

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Varatharaajan Rangaswamy 11 years 4 months ago

The plant Prosopis juliflora, should be eradicated from our land lock stock & barrel to protect our environment & water. In Kerala, the state government used NCC & NSS to eradicate the poisonous thorny tree from their land. The central government can enact a law to make it unlawful to have such a plant which sucks even the moisture from the atmosphere. We should wake up now and put an end to the monstrous thorny plant and protect our land & water resources, probably using MNREGA & NREGS schemes

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Amol Bhaskar Aundhe 11 years 4 months ago

We can bring technology to boost the food generation by all society to get food security making understanding to convert all natural resourses into food.......... like keeping milking animals....5 liter Milk per family of 6members

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Ravinder Mandayam 11 years 4 months ago

The other important area is to expand the knowledge and use of Indian, localised, organic farming practices, as a means to reduce the input costs for farming activity. This is in the long term. In the short term, for food security of the nation, it is essential that all farmers are educated on drip-irrigation and low cost materials provided to set this up in one district at a time.

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Ravinder Mandayam 11 years 4 months ago

Water security will be the biggest challenge for us in India in less than 10 years. The solution is not hare-brained LARGE schemes like the Ganga-Krishna-Kaveri interlinking projects, which are nothing but a easy way for contractors to make money, instead SMALL, localised water conservation and regeneration projects should be planned. Form a crowdsourced group that can be trained to assess and help reduce water wastage across urban/rural segments. They should work with help of IAS officers

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