Dryland Agriculture in India - Status and the Way Forward

Not AvailableOften the terms ‘drylands’ and ‘rainfed regions’ are used synonymously. Though they overlap to a large extent, dryland area is a piece of agricultural land having no source of irrigation including groundwater. Dryland Agriculture is defined as cultivation of crop entirely with rainwater received during the crop season or stored/ conserved soil moisture or supplemented with harvested rainwater. Time and again the crop experiences mild to very severe moisture stress during cropping period in dryland areas. Drylands are characterized by having (i) limited rainfall up to 1000 mm; (ii) shortage of moisture availability; (iii) growing season of less than 200 days; (iv) single crop or intercropping system, and (v) constraints of water and wind erosion.Not Availabl