Participatory crop improvement in salt-affected areas
Farmers’ participatory varietal evaluation of wheat and rice was conducted for three consecutive years from 1999 to 2002, in the Punjab, India. Farmers adopted new varieties that better met their needs and enabled them to break their monoculture dependence. They also made use of seed priming and zero tillage, a technology with which they were not familiar, to improve yields and reduce costs.
Author: UK Department For International Development (DFID)
Organization: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations FAO TECA
Year: 2020
Country/ies: India
Geographical coverage: Asia and the Pacific
Type: Practices
Full text available at: https://teca.apps.fao.org/en/technologies/4592/
Content language: English