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Overcoming adversity with onion cultivation in Odisha, India

By |February 23rd, 2024|Categories: 2024 FRESH archive, FEB2024, Latest News, South and Central Asia|Tags: , |

Overcoming adversity with onion cultivation in Odisha, India A remarkable new farming activity has taken root in Odisha, with a growing number of farmers having enthusiastically embraced onion cultivation. In 2017, a strategic partnership began to strengthen onion production and increase farmer incomes, between WorldVeg and the Odisha Department of Horticulture. Starting with a comprehensive baseline study to understand existing production and postharvest practices, it identified challenges, and unveiled opportunities.           Motivating farmers to embrace rainy season onion cultivation was pivotal to the project. Through training programs and interactive sessions, hundreds of farmers

New prospects for Odisha

By |October 4th, 2019|Categories: Briefing, In Brief, OCT2019|Tags: |

A proposal on sustainable improvement of rural livelihoods through vegetable cultivation and value addition was approved by the Ministry of Panchayat Raj and Drinking Water Department, Government of Odisha, India on 20 September 2019. The World Vegetable Center will work with the Odisha Livelihood Mission (OLM) to introduce vegetable seed hubs and protected cultivation methods, improve nursery production practices, adopt postharvest practices to reduce losses and increase value addition, and strengthen value chains for tomato, chili, onion and eggplant. WorldVeg Plant Physiologist Dr. Bindumadhava HanumanthaRao will be the project’s principal investigator.  More than 65% of Odisha’s population depends on agriculture for their livelihoods. Small-scale farmers make up 90% of the state’s farming community, with average landholdings of 1.15 hectares.

Improved Livelihoods through Crop Diversification into Vegetables in Jharkhand and Odisha

By |March 13th, 2017|Categories: Project Profiles|Tags: , , |

Enable a sustainable increase in incomes of smallholder tribal farmers in CInI target areas by diversifying into or expanding vegetable production.

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A new season for Odisha onions

By |March 10th, 2017|Categories: 2017 FRESH archive, Articles, FRESH, Latest News, MAR2017, South and Central Asia|Tags: , , |

In Odisha in eastern India onions are usually grown during the dry winter or Rabi season. The World Vegetable Center has now created a profitable new alternative for farmers by promoting onion production during the wet summer or Kharif season, a practice that was never considered possible because of waterlogging problems. --MORE--

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Pulse progress

By |August 2nd, 2016|Categories: In Brief, South and Central Asia|Tags: , , |

On behalf of the World Vegetable Center, Legume Breeder Ram Nair signed a memorandum of agreement between the Center and the Government of Odisha, India on 23 July 2016 in Bhubaneswar, Odisha to support the project “Improving mungbean and urdbean productivity in Odisha state.” P. K. Meherda, Commissioner cum Director, Directorate of Agriculture and Food Production, Government of Odisha, signed for Odisha.

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Increased resiliency of vulnerable communities in Puri district, Odisha to recurrent floods

By |April 18th, 2015|Categories: Project Profiles|Tags: , , , , |

Start date: 2012 End date: 2014 This project will strengthen the capacity of vulnerable communities in Puri district, Odisha to prepare for and recover from floods. The district is in a low-lying area and frequently experiences flooding for several weeks at a time, leading to more than 80% crop loss. By the end of the project, flood affected families will experience reduced losses from floods (ie reduced damage to their houses, their standing crops, their livestock and their access to drinking water) and will be able to recover faster from floods (through planting a winter crop and kitchen gardening).

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