1,721,344 research outputs found
10.2-Socioeconomic survey-Mechanization-SRFSI Project-ACIAR-CIMMYT
No full textThese data collected by household survey and from secondary sources of Bangladesh, Bihar, Nepal and West Bengal for the review of the ongoing policies and programmes for mechanization in the EGP. Since 2000, policies and programmes for agricultural development in EGP, have been trying to address the challenges of stagnating productivity of crops and decreasing agricultural growth. Mechanization has been recognized as a core area of intervention by these policies and programmes for addressing these challenges. From the collected data, IFPRI (2016) generated a report titled as “Mechanization in Eastern Gangetic Plains (EGP): A Review of Policies and Programmes with a focus on Indian EGP”, Report submitted to Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra under the Objective 3; Activity 3.6.2 of SRFSI project AUS aid (ACIAR & DFAT) funded and CIMMYT lead implemented by NARES in EGP
1.6-Pre-kharif crops-all nodes-Long-term trial-Sunsari-Nepal
No full textFarmers’ participatory researchers managed long-term trails aimed to improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of smallholder agriculture in the EGP by activities carried out to address the objectives:
1. Understand farmer circumstances with respect to cropping systems, natural and economic resources base, livelihood strategies, and capacity to bear risk and undertake technological innovation.
2. Develop with farmers more productive and sustainable technologies that are resilient to climate risks and profitable for small holders.
3. Facilitate widespread adoption of sustainable, resilient, and more profitable farming systems
2.6-Rabi (winter) crops-all nodes-Alternative cropping systems trial -Malda-West Bengal
No full textFarmer participatory on-farm trials with CA technologies comparing with farmers’ practices (CT), were conducted in several fields in each community. Likewise, farmer-participatory alternative cropping systems trials were conducted comparing to exiting systems and to find out suitable and more profitable cropping systems, prioritized to increase visibility and to avoid implementation and management problems that emerge when utilizing small plots with significant edge effects. Most trials were replicated in several fields within each community and were farmer-managed with backstopping from project staff and NARES partners. Project partners and staff coordinated monitoring and data acquisition. Where possible, collaborating farmers were selected by the community, and the project worked with existing farmer groups, with groups of both men and women farmers
Supply chain sustainability integration: The case of textile and ready-made garment (RMG) industry of Bangladesh
No full textBeing second biggest exporter of Textile and RMG products, Bangladesh has been facing challenges to manage sustainability issues in the industry for ages. As sustainability literature in the sector mostly focuses on individual dimension and there is gap of integrated approach, this study tries to identify sustainability challenges in the environmental, social, economic, and macro-infrastructural dimensions. Respective initiatives taken to mitigate those issues along with the sustainability solutions are also addressed accordingly. Following qualitative framework, an integrated model of sustainable textile supply chain management has been proposed. Based on extensive literature review, a semi structured interview protocol was developed to explore the pertinent themes by interviewing relevant stakeholders. The transcribed data are analysed using NVivo to derive the results. In exploring sustainability outlook, triple bottom line (TBL) lens has been used as the guiding theoretical backdrop along with stakeholders’ theory, stakeholders ‘salience model, and stakeholders’ resource-based view (SRBV). Result shows that the industry has major gaps in sustainability practices in all dimensions. In social side, workers salary is in sub-human level, skill level of the industry and workers is low, health and safety issues are overlooked, working environment is not standardized, workers are overburdened and overstressed. In environmental front, there is no chemical management guideline, monitoring of Effluent Treatment Plant is insufficient, subcontracting units do not maintain environmental obligations, untreated wastewater is released to the water stream and there is no ground water extraction policy yet. In economic perspective, the industry is facing challenges in getting fair prices from the brands, there is gap in value addition, product and market diversification is in infancy stage. In macro environmental consideration, raw materials supply is import-dependant, crisis of energy supply is a regular phenomenon, logistics and transportation system is underdeveloped, there is corruption and capability gap from the regulatory side. The findings also provide some positive practices. The industry has gone through massive retrofitting processes after Rana Plaza collapse. Current working environment is much safer and workers welfare initiatives are in-place. Export-oriented factories are now environmentally concerned, many of energy and resources saving initiatives have been taken, number of LEED certified green factories from Bangladesh are leading the global chart. Surveillance and monitoring mechanism from government agencies, brands, and associations have increased manifolds. The study incorporates solutions to each dimension of the existing sustainability challenges. Skill enhancement in line with automation, ensuring workers wellbeing, salary adjustment, health insurance and compensation can be offered as social solutions. Circular economy adoption, biological ETP, digital and tech-based monitoring, solid waste infrastructure, greening initiatives can make the industry environment friendly. For economic sustainability, better price negotiation, high-end diversified production, lead time minimisation, and positive global branding initiatives should be taken. This research offers a broader sustainability outlook of Bangladeshi RMG supply chain paving a pathway to reach the vision of exporting 100 billion USD by 2030. For which, infrastructure, communication and transport, port facilities, supplies and concerned stakeholders’ effort must be coordinated along with factory-oriented initiatives. <br/
1.4-Kharif (summer) rice-all nodes-Long term trial (LT)-Purnea-Bihar
No full textLong-term farmers’ participatory researchers managed trails aimed to improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of smallholder agriculture in the EGP by activities carried out to address the objectives:
1. Understand farmer circumstances with respect to cropping systems, natural and economic resources base, livelihood strategies, and capacity to bear risk and undertake technological innovation.
2. Develop with farmers more productive and sustainable technologies that are resilient to climate risks and profitable for small holders.
3. Facilitate widespread adoption of sustainable, resilient, and more profitable farming systems
5.3-Rabi (winter) crops-all nodes- Inter-cropping trial -Madhubani-Bihar
No full textFarmer participatory on-farm trials with CA technologies comparing with farmers’ practices (CT), were conducted in several fields in each community. Likewise, farmer-participatory intercropping leafy vegetables in maize trials were conducted comparing to existing practices and to find out suitable and more profitable crop production practices, prioritized to increase visibility and to avoid implementation and management problems that emerge when utilizing small plots with significant edge effects. Most trials were replicated in several fields within each community and were farmer-managed with backstopping from project staff and NARES partners. Project partners and staff coordinated monitoring and data acquisition. Where possible, collaborating farmers were selected by the community, and the project worked with existing farmer groups, with groups of both men and women farmers
2.3-Rabi (winter) crops-all nodes-Long term trial (LT)-Madhubani-Bihar
No full textFarmers’ participatory researchers managed long-term trails aimed to improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of smallholder agriculture in the EGP by activities carried out to address the objectives:
1. Understand farmer circumstances with respect to cropping systems, natural and economic resources base, livelihood strategies, and capacity to bear risk and undertake technological innovation.
2. Develop with farmers more productive and sustainable technologies that are resilient to climate risks and profitable for small holders.
3. Facilitate widespread adoption of sustainable, resilient, and more profitable farming systems
1.3-Kharif (summer) rice-all nodes-Long-term trial (LT)-Madhubani-Bihar
No full textFarmers’ participatory researchers managed long-term trails aimed to improve the productivity, profitability, and sustainability of smallholder agriculture in the EGP by activities carried out to address the objectives:
1. Understand farmer circumstances with respect to cropping systems, natural and economic resources base, livelihood strategies, and capacity to bear risk and undertake technological innovation.
2. Develop with farmers more productive and sustainable technologies that are resilient to climate risks and profitable for small holders.
3. Facilitate widespread adoption of sustainable, resilient, and more profitable farming systems
1-b.SRFSI Meta Data description & layout in CIMMYT DataVerse
No full textDetail description of SRFSI data, report and journal paper publicatio
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