ICT Based Pest Management System for Sustainable Pulse Production

2012 ◽  
pp. 169-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
O P Sharma ◽  
Niranjan Singh ◽  
Archana Bhardwaj ◽  
S Vennila ◽  
Someshwar Bhagat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Pulse Crops ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Bottom To Top ◽  
Server System ◽  
Pulse Production

“E-National Pest Reporting and Alert System” in pulse crops is a unique ICT based decision support system, which is very effective and easy to operate through a centralized server system at National Centre for Integrated Pest Management, New Delhi, connected with internet and mobile phones. This system has developed to cater to the needs of rural farmers of India, who grow pulse crops. The useful information is collected, stored, processed, and interpreted, and the appropriate advisories are sent to the registered farmers through centralized server system. They apply suitable corrective measures as per advisories at right time, and thereby, heavy loss caused by various pests can be checked/minimized below economic threshold level. Based on the past experiences and larger response of the stakeholders, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Govt. of India, suggested that this program should be extended and implemented in all pulse growing states. This system is quiet useful bottom to top level officials/policy makers, involved in E-Pest Surveillance programme.

ICT Based Pest Management System for Sustainable Pulse Production

2013 ◽  
pp. 566-580
Author(s):  
O P Sharma ◽  
Niranjan Singh ◽  
Archana Bhardwaj ◽  
S Vennila ◽  
Someshwar Bhagat ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Pulse Crops ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Bottom To Top ◽  
Server System ◽  
Pulse Production

“E-National Pest Reporting and Alert System” in pulse crops is a unique ICT based decision support system, which is very effective and easy to operate through a centralized server system at National Centre for Integrated Pest Management, New Delhi, connected with internet and mobile phones. This system has developed to cater to the needs of rural farmers of India, who grow pulse crops. The useful information is collected, stored, processed, and interpreted, and the appropriate advisories are sent to the registered farmers through centralized server system. They apply suitable corrective measures as per advisories at right time, and thereby, heavy loss caused by various pests can be checked/minimized below economic threshold level. Based on the past experiences and larger response of the stakeholders, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Govt. of India, suggested that this program should be extended and implemented in all pulse growing states. This system is quiet useful bottom to top level officials/policy makers, involved in E-Pest Surveillance programme.

Status and Strategies for Development of Pulses in Bundelkhand Region of India: A Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uma Sah ◽  
G.P. Dixit ◽  
Narendra Kumar ◽  
Jeetendra Pal ◽  
N.P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Crop Productivity ◽  
Pigeon Pea ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Department Of Agriculture ◽  
Income Levels ◽  
Pulse Crops ◽  
Region Data ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
Pulse Production

Bundelkhand region of India is primarily agrarian, vulnerable to natural calamities with low levels of industrialization and urbanization. Poor crop productivity, declining and irregular rainfall pattern and poor income levels make livelihood uncertain in the region. Pulse crops assume a special significance to the farm economy in Bundelkhand region as well as daily diets of local habitants. Chickpea, lentil, field pea, urdbean, mungbean and pigeon pea are the major pulse crops cultivated in the region. Data from Department of economics and statistics, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation and Farmers Welfare, New Delhi and the studies on pulses development of Bundelkhand region of India were analyzed. Pulses account for 32% of total agriculture produce and occupy about 33.6% of gross cropped area in the region. However, decline in area coverage of pulses has been observed in the region, in contrast to overall increase in gross cropped area in the region. The paper discusses about the various challenges confronting pulses cultivation in the region along with the possible intervention points for bringing out an enhanced pulse production. 

Planning for the Worst, Bringing Out the Best? Lessons from Y2K

2011 ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Kevin Quigley
Keyword(s):  
Federal Aviation Administration ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Case Planning ◽  
Us Government ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Bureau Of Labor Statistics ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Organization Theorist

Organization theorist Lee Clarke (2005) argues when policy makers plan for disasters, they too often think in terms of past experiences and “probabilities.” Rather, policy makers, when planning to protect the infrastructure, should open their minds to worst-case scenarios; catastrophes that are possible but highly unlikely. Underpinned by a precautionary principle, such an approach to the infrastructure would be more likely to produce “out of the box” thinking and in so doing, reduce the impact of disasters that occur more frequently than people think. The purpose of this chapter is to consider the utility of Clarke’s worst-case planning by examining Y2K preparations at two US government agencies, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The data concerning Y2K come mostly from official US government sources, interviews, and media analysis. The chapter concludes that the thoroughness of worst-case planning can bring much needed light to the subtlety of critical complex and interdependent systems. But such an approach can also be narrow in its own way, revealing some of the limitations of such a precautionary approach. It potentially rejects reasonable efforts to moderate risk management responses and ignores the opportunity costs of such exhaustive planning.

The Economic Future in Historical Perspective

2006 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Security ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Old Age Support ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Past Experiences ◽  
Economic Future

This book shows how analysis of past experiences contributes to a better understanding of present-day economic conditions; chapters offer important insights into major challenges that will occupy the attention of policy makers in the coming decades. The seventeen chapters are organised around three major themes, the first of which is the changing constellation of forces sustaining long-run economic growth in market economies. The second major theme concerns the contemporary challenges posed by transitions in economic and political regimes, and by ideologies that represent legacies from past economic conditions that still affect policy responses to new ‘crises’. The third theme is modern economic growth's diverse implications for human economic welfare — in terms of economic security, nutritional and health status, and old age support — and the institutional mechanisms communities have developed to cope with the risks that individuals are exposed to by the concomitants of rising prosperity.

Pulse production in Australia past, present and future

1997 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. H. M. Siddique ◽  
J. Sykes
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Warm Season ◽  
Farming Systems ◽  
Grain Legumes ◽  
Export Demand ◽  
Cool Season ◽  
Management Options ◽  
Pulse Crops ◽  
The Past ◽  
Pulse Production

Summary. Several cool- and warm-season pulse crops (grain legumes) are grown in rotation with cereals and pasture forming sustainable farming systems in Australia. Australian pulse production has increased rapidly over the past 25 years to about 2 x 106 t/year, mainly because of the increase in the area and yield of lupin production for stockfeed purposes. Pulses currently comprise only 10% of the cropping areas of Australia and this could be expanded to 16% as there are large areas of soil types suitable for a range of pulse crops and new better-adapted pulse varieties are becoming available. Cool-season pulses will continue to dominate pulse production in Australia and the majority of the expansion will probably come from chickpea and faba bean industries. There appears to be no major constraint to pulse production in Australia that cannot be addressed by breeders, agronomists and farmers. Of the current major pulse crops, field pea faces the most number of difficulties, in particular the lack of disease management options. A recent strategic plan of the Australian pulse industry predicts the production of 4 x 106 t/year by 2005 but this will largely depend upon export demand and pulse prices. It is predicted that the growth in pulse production will come from increased productivity in the existing areas, from 1.0 to 1.4 t/ha, through improvements in crop management and the development of superior varieties. The area of pulse production will also expand by an additional 1.2 x 106 ha probably yielding 1.0 t/ha. If trends in grazing stock prices continue, the increased area under pulse production will mostly come at the expense of those areas under unimproved pasture and continuous cereal cropping.

scholarly journals A STAGE-STRUCTURED PREDATOR-PREY SI MODEL WITH DISEASE IN THE PREY AND IMPULSIVE EFFECTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 505-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tongqian Zhang ◽  
Xinzhu Meng ◽  
Yi Song ◽  
Tonghua Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Pest Management ◽  
Analytical Techniques ◽  
Stage Structure ◽  
Threshold Level ◽  
Pest Population ◽  
Predator Prey ◽  
Impulsive Delay Differential Equations ◽  
Si Model ◽  
Impulsive Delay ◽  
Delay Differential

This paper aims to develop a high-dimensional SI model with stage structure for both the prey (pest) and the predator, and then to investigate the dynamics of it. The model can be used for the study of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) which is a combination of constant pulse releasing of animal enemies and diseased pests at two different fixed moments. Firstly, we use analytical techniques for impulsive delay differential equations to obtain the conditions for global attractivity of the ‘pest-free’ periodic solution and permanence of the population model. It shows that the conditions strongly depend on time delay, impulsive release of animal enemies and infective pests. Secondly, we present a pest management strategy in which the pest population is kept under the economic threshold level (ETL) when the pest population is permanent. Finally, numerical analysis is presented to illustrate our main conclusion.

scholarly journals Fredrich Schneider and Dominik H. Enste. The Shadow Economy—An International Survey. New Delhi / Thousand Oaks / London: Sage Publications. 2006. Paperback. Indian Rs 550.00.

2007 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-101
Author(s):  
Sophia Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Money Laundering ◽  
Shadow Economy ◽  
Underground Economy ◽  
Economic Crime ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
International Survey ◽  
Policy Makers

Social security fraud, economic crime, prostitution, money laundering, smuggling, and other illegal actions have one thing in common—they are all considered to be “shadow economy” activities. Such activities are increasing and require immediate attention from social and economic policy-makers and law-regulating authorities. Fredrich Schneider and Dominik H. Enste have made a commendable effort to highlight the causes, effects, and size of the underground economy in their new book.

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