Global CA-CoP CONSERVATION AGRICULTURE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
for sustainable agriculture and land management
Amir Kassam
Moderator
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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).
Dear Dr Amir
Attached is a policy brief on CA roadmap for India came-out based on a ICAR-CIMMYT Joint workshop organized recently at New Delhi involving key senior level researchers, planners involved in CAR4D in India
Best regards, ML
ML Jat | Principal Scientist/Systems Agronomist
International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT)
India Office, CG Block, National Agriculture Science Center (NASC) Complex, Pusa, New Delhi- 110 012, India
tel: +91 (11) 55441938 skype: cimmyt1231 cel: +91 9999108787
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