Crop Science Management and Harvesting

Biography

Biography: Ramakanta Naik

Abstract

The research titled “Resilient agriculture-based pre-harvest management system of paddy cultivation”:  A study of Junagarh and Dharamgarh blocks of Kalahandi district focuses on the pre-harvest paddy cultivation, factors affecting the resilience at pre-harvest of paddy and the indicators to enhance and maintain the resilience in paddy cultivation. The relative matrix has been used to find out the resilience and vulnerability status of Junagarh and Dharamgarh blocks. The loss in pre-harvest paddy cultivation is a big challenge. Each part of pre-harvest, from seed selection to harvest, is affected by various factors such as drought, flood, sand-cast and pest attack. These factors are influencing to maintain the resilience in paddy cultivation. The study has found that the resilience and vulnerability co-exists. The study identified the factors that drive resilience capacities into vulnerability, when adaptive capacities are overexploited. Those factors are new seed varieties, over use of fertilizers, canal irrigation, and crop loan. The use of power tiller is another major factor that influences the resilience of the crop land. The power tiller has been using as a tool to maintain resilience but after the new vulnerabilities arise due to which it is not able to maintain the resilience. These five indicators are driving the resilience capacities to become vulnerability. To maintain the resilience in pre-harvest paddy cultivation, controlled and sustainable use of these indicators (canal irrigation, power tiller, traditional method, new variety seeds, double cropping paddy, over use of fertilizer and information access) are necessary.