Current Affair 1:

Aiming to transform agriculture in some of the world’s most arid regions, Consultative Group of International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), a global leader in agricultural research, has launched its 2030 Global Strategy for Resilient Drylands (GSRD).

The strategy was unveiled at the 16th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (COP16) in Riyadh.

Five priority areas of the strategy:

Why GSRD matters?

 

Some good points related to dryland with respect to India:

The farmers of these regions used their indigenous knowledge and techniques to cope with confined water availability. These methods and techniques included contour ploughing, terracing, mulching, and water harvesting structures like tanks and ponds.

The regions of India that are classified as dryland agricultural areas geographically are the rain shadow areas of the Deccan in Maharashtra, the Deccan Plateau of Andhra Pradesh, the highlands of Tamil Nadu, the central highlands of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, the plateau region of central India, and the alluvial plains of the Ganga Yamuna River basin.

In India, dryland covers about 68 percent of the total cultivated land which influences nearly 44 percent of the total food grain production.

Characteristics of dryland agriculture in India:

 

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