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Norway to invest in farm project in delta regions
18 February 2010: Norway is planning to invest Rs 7 crore for a project studying the impact of climate change on agriculture and rice production in the Cauvery delta in Thanjavur and Krishna delta of Andhra Pradesh.
The preliminary work under the expanded ClimaRice II project began in November 2009 and the programme would go on for three years.
In ClimaRice I, different technologies, including alternative cropping systems, alternate wetting and drying, system of rice intensification and direct sowing, were being validated in fields in real-time conditions.
The emphasis on ClimaRice II will be on validating and replicating pioneering practices on the fields of model farmers towards formulating integrated response to complex climate change issues impacting agriculture in general and rice production in particular. ClimaRice II was a sequel to the successful ClimaRice I implemented between 2008 and 2010 in the Cauvery delta of Tamil Nadu.
Source: Hindu