Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture Network (RRA N) in collaboration with National Rainfed Area Authority (NRAA), Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, Government of India & National Institute of Agricultural Extension Management (MANAGE) organised a National Convention on ‘Revitalising Rainfed Agriculture — Restructuring Policy and Public Investments to address Agrarian Crisis at the India International Centre (IIC), New Delhi on Thursday.
More than 450 farmers, policy makers, researchers, academicians, and civil society practitioners participated in the two-day convention. Ashok Dalwai, CEO, National Rainfed Area Authority and Chairman, Committee on doubling of Farmers Income was the chief guest and lunched the Rainfed Atlas.
The objective of the convention is to find pragmatic solutions by kicking around ideas pertaining to rainfed agriculture, build a consensus and emphasize on different policies and programmes at the Centre and States. The focus is to identify rainfed agriculture as an issue of national importance.
Apart from an inaugural and a plenary session, the thought-provoking convention witnessed various theme-based sessions such as Agroecology and Living Soils — The Policy Problem, Alternative Budgetary Framework for Rainfed Agriculture, Draught Animal Use in Rainfed Agriculture — Potential and Policy Imperatives and Evolving Appropriate Seed Systems for Climate Resilient Agriculture to Stimulate Growth, spread over two days.
