Crop diversification for livelihood security and resilience to climate variability

Village level seed banks to combat seed shortages

In scarce rainfall zones of India, practice of sole cropping is predominant but is risky and often results in low yields or sometimes even in crop failure due to erratic monsoon rainfall and skewed distribution. In such areas intercropping is a feasible option to minimize risk in crop production, ensure reasonable returns at least from the intercrop and also improve soil fertility with a legume intercrop.

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NICRA Project launched in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh on 17th July, 2015

The National Innovations in Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) project was launched at Chiitticherla village of Chinnagottigallu mandal in Chittoor district on 17^th July 2015. ICAR-CRIDA which is coordinating the NICRA project implemented by 100 KVKs since 2011 at the national level is expanding the project implementation to 21 additional districts identified for their climate vulnerability from 2015 onwards. The technology demonstration component of NICRA in the district will be implemented by Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) operated by Rashtriya Seva Samithi (RASS).

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Seed shortage of suitable crop varieties is an important limitation faced by farmers to implement contingency crop plans to tackle aberrant rainfall situations. In vulnerable areas, farmers tend to dispose-off the entire produce as grain and therefore depend on external sources for seed supply in the next season. In crops where the seed multiplication ratio is low, seed rate and seed cost is high

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Flood tolerant varieties impart resilience to farmers in flood-prone areas

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