National Webinar on “Abiotic Stress in Agriculture: Geospatial Characterization and Management Options”

27thAugust, 2020, Baramati

The ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati, Maharashtra organized a National Webinar on “Abiotic Stress in Agriculture: Geospatial Characterization and Management Options” today.

Dr. Himanshu Pathak, Director, ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati, Maharashtra highlighted the importance of abiotic stress in agriculture, approaches to manage it and the objectives of the National Webinar. Dr. Pathak also emphasized on the multi-institutional collaboration for knowledge integration and development of Abiotic Stress Information system.

Dr. Giriraj Amarnath, Research Group Leader, Water Risks to Development and Resilience, International Water Management Institute discussed about understanding the climate risks in promoting agricultural risks solutions through geospatial techniques.

Dr. Pradip Dey, Project Coordinator, ICAR-AICRP STCR underlined the geospatial approach developed for soil fertility mapping for precision farming. He also outlined the datasets generated and available across the several projects involving soil properties assessment and requirement for further scaling it up using geospatial tools.

Dr. Chandrashekhar Biradar, Research Team Leader, Digital Augmentation & Head of Geoinformatics, International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) outlined the various facets of digital augmentation to accelerate the holistic management at systems level in agriculture to reduce / avoid stress and stressors.

The Webinar was aimed at exploring the methodologies, building awareness, learning lessons and impart knowledge on the geospatial abiotic stress characterization and management.

The Webinar registered participation by more than 370 participants.

(Source: ICAR-National Institute of Abiotic Stress Management, Baramati, Maharashtra)