arid zone Tag

इमली, शुष्क भूमि में खेती के लिए एक बहुउद्देशीय वृक्ष Tamarind (Tamarindus indica L.) is a leguminous tree grown as waste land crop and is found throughout the tropic and sub-tropic terrain of country. It is almost found throughout the world and has become naturalized at many places particularly in India, South East Asia, tropical America, the Pacific Islands and also in the Caribbean. Tamarind is a perfect crop for cultivation under dry land arid condition because of its hardy nature which requires very less of grower attention after the establishment. Therefore suitable cultivars need to be explored for the betterment of farmer of such region and also for maintaining the ecosystem...

शुष्‍क क्षेत्र में उच्च आय, सुरक्षा और उपयुक्‍त संसाधन उपयोग के लिए एकीकृत खेती प्रणाली The Indian hot arid zone occupies over 31.7 m ha area of which 81.0% lies in two states i.e.  Rajasthan and Gujarat. The characteristic features of this region are low and erratic rainfall (100 -420 mm/year), extreme temperatures (-5.7 to 50.0°C), long sunshine duration (6.6-10 hours), low relative humidity (30%-80%) high wind velocity (9-13 kmph) and high evapotranspiration (1500-2000 mm). The soils are poor in nutrients, wind erosion occurs on a mammoth scale and paucity of water is a perennial bottleneck. Dry land farming in farming system mode is the main occupation of the people . The crop...