*Global CA-CoP* *CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE* *for sustainable agriculture and land management* Dear Subscribers, Please see herebelow a self-explanatory message from Dr. Enamul Haque from Bangladesh regarding the launch of a Manual for Smallholders' Conservation Agriculture in Rice-based Systems. Thank you for sharing. *Amir Kassam * *Moderator* e-mail: [log in to unmask] URL: www.fao.org/ag/ca *Conservation Agriculture is an ecosystem approach to sustainable agriculture and land management based on the practical application of locally adapted three interlinked principles of: (i) Continuous no or minimum mechanical soil disturbance (no-till seeding/planting and weeding, and minimum soil disturbance with all other farm operations including harvesting); (ii) permanent maintenance of soil much cover (crop biomass, stubble and cover crops); and (iii) diversification of cropping system (environmentally, environmentally and socially adapted rotations and/or sequences and/or associations involving annuals and perennials, including legumes and cover crops), along with other complementary good agricultural production and land management practices. Conservation Agriculture systems are present in all continents, involving rainfed and irrigated systems including annual cropland systems, perennial systems, orchards and plantation systems, agroforestry systems, crop-livestock systems, organic production systems and rice-based systems (more at: *www.fao.org/ag/ca). ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Md. Enamul Haque <[log in to unmask]> Date: Thu, Aug 29, 2018 at 12:31 PM Subject: Manual for Smallholders' Conservation Agriculture in Rice-based Systems. To: Richard Bell <[log in to unmask]>, M. Jahiruddin < [log in to unmask]>, Mosharraf Hossain <[log in to unmask]>, mahfuza begum <[log in to unmask]>, Md. Moshiur Rahman <[log in to unmask]>, Md Israil Hossain <[log in to unmask]>, MD. ARIFUL ISLAM <[log in to unmask]>, Anwar Hossen <[log in to unmask]>, Abul Hashem <[log in to unmask]>, Nazmus Salahin <[log in to unmask]>, w.vance <[log in to unmask]>, R J Esdaile <[log in to unmask]>, M Mobarak Hossain <[log in to unmask]>, Taslima Zahan <[log in to unmask]>, Amir Kassam < [log in to unmask]>, Theodor (FAO) Friedrich < [log in to unmask]>, AKM Saiful Islam <[log in to unmask]>, < [log in to unmask]> Dear All, Please find herebelow the link to the PDF version of the *"Manual for Smallholders' Conservation Agriculture in Rice-based Systems".* I am really grateful for your contribution to make it happen. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/41693 I am happy to inform you that the Manual was Launched by Begum Matia Chowdhury, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh; H.E. Ms. Julia Niblett, Australian High Commissioner to Bangladesh; Mr. Mohammad Moinuddin Abdullah, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of Bangladesh; Dr. Md. Ikramul Haque, Executive Chairman, Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council; Professor Andrew Campbell, Chief Executive Officer, Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research; and Dr. Wais Kabir, Executive Director, Krishi Gobeshona Foundation. About 300 agricultural scientists from home and abroad were present during the launching ceremony and received a hard copy of the Manual. This Manual is for your record and for wide circulation. Please let me know if you need some printed copies. The next steps are to publish it in Bengali and pictorial versions which is now under development. We would be grateful if Amir will take necessary steps to circulate it. Further, the manual will be preserved in Murdoch University and ACIAR Web based repository. Thank you again for your contentious support. Kind regards, Enam ---------- *Dr. Md. Enamul Haque* Adjunct Associate Professor, Murdoch University, Australia PIO/Liaison Office West Block, 2nd Floor, House House 4C, Road 7B, Sector 9 Uttara Model Town Dhaka, Bangladesh Email: [log in to unmask]; [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.ide-bangladesh.org/> ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CA-Cop-L list, click the following link: &*TICKET_URL(CA-Cop-L,SIGNOFF);