This paper focuses on a concrete, non-mainstream example of bringing ICTs to rural agricultural areas. In elaborating on this example of ‘ICT for Development’ (ICT4D), it tries to provide insights into the integration of the natural sciences, the technical communication sciences and the social sciences in a project called: Open Source Simple Computer for Agriculture in Rural Areas (OSCAR). The ...

Cropping system level study is not only useful to understand to overall sustainability of agricultural system, but also it helps in generating many important parameters which are useful in climate change impact assessment. Considering its importance, Space Applications Centre, took up a project for mapping and characterizing major cropping systems of Indo-Gangetic Plains of India. The study are...

Regaining the agricultural potential of sodic soils in the Indo-Gangetic plains necessitates the development of suitable salt tolerant rice varieties to provide an entry for other affordable agronomic and soil manipulation measures. Thus selection of high yielding rice varieties across a range of sodic soils is central. Evaluation of breeding lines through on-station and on-farm farmers' partic...

In this paper, the climate change scenarios of A2 and B2 for 2070-2100 time scale (denoted as 2080) several key locations India its impact on rice wheat crops based regional model (PRECIS) were described. The PRECIS projects an increase in temperature over most parts especially IGP (Indo-Gangetic Plains), region that presently experiences relatively low temperatures. Extreme high episodes rainf...

Trees on agricultural fields can have a positive or negative impact weed seedbank (WSB) due to diverse environmental and soil characteristics. Therefore, samples were drawn in six cropping systems [two agroforest (AFS): guava, mango; three horticulture (HCS): mango, Indian gooseberry; annual crop system (ACS)] at two landscape positions (lowland upland) depths (0-15 cm 15-30 cm) using factorial...

A recent study by Ambika and Mishra (2022, https://doi.org/10.1029/2021EF002642) asserted using simulated evidence that a shift towards drip irrigation from channel in the Indo-Gangetic Plains will result alleviation of moist heat stress water savings. The assumptions, parameterizations, approach adopted this do not adequately represent fundamentals science, management, engineering, as well rea...