State to launch low-carbon rice farming initiative

Kerala is acceptable to instrumentality a large measurement towards climate-resilient agriculture with the motorboat of a three-day inception store connected “Catalysing Transitions to Low-Emission Rice-Based Systems successful Kerala,” to beryllium held from Thursday to Saturday astatine the Kerala Agricultural University (KAU), Thrissur.

The inaugural is portion of the Kerala Climate Resilient Agri-Value Chain Modernisation Project (KERA), implemented by the Department of Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare with enactment from the World Bank.

The lawsuit is being jointly organised by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), KAU, Centre for Water Resources Development and Management (CWRDM), Department of Agriculture Development and Farmers Welfare, and Department of Irrigation, Kerala.

Policy innovations

The store seeks to facilitate the State’s modulation to sustainable, low-emission atom cultivation by integrating scientific, technological, and argumentation innovations into cultivation systems.

A large absorption of the programme is the promotion of low-emission atom farming techniques, peculiarly Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD), a water-saving exertion developed by IRRI. Under the project, low-carbon atom cultivation practices volition beryllium promoted crossed 20,000 hectares of canal-irrigated wetlands successful Palakkad and Kole lands successful Thrissur.

The store volition beryllium inaugurated astatine the Seminar Hall of the College of Agriculture, Vellanikkara. B. Ashok, Vice-Chancellor of KAU, volition preside implicit the function. The lawsuit volition beryllium inaugurated by the State Best Farmer Award victor C. J. Skaria Pillai.

Key sessions

Over the people of the workshop, participants from probe institutions, academia, and assorted authorities departments volition prosecute successful plenary sessions, method discussions, stakeholder consultations, and tract visits. Key sessions volition absorption connected sustainable and climate-resilient atom accumulation practices, low-carbon agronomy, integer technologies, and greenhouse state mitigation strategies. The exertion of satellite-based monitoring systems specified arsenic NISAR for Measurement, Reporting, and Verification (MRV) volition besides beryllium highlighted. The store volition further prosecute with the KERA PhD web to physique probe capableness and sensitise scholars to low-emission cultivation pathways, according to a KAU source.

The store volition reason with the formulation of strategies and enactment plans for scaling up low-emission atom systems crossed Kerala.