date:May 16, 2013
ated new or improved agricultural technologies suitable to semi-arid areas. These include drought-tolerant crop varieties; low-cost production technologies; introduction of new cropping seasons; introduction of new crops, and new cropping systems that have been enthusiastically adopted and scaled up by partner non-government organisations (NGOs) and farmers.
The IFAD grant programme's target group consists of poor and marginal farmers engaged in rainfed agriculture in the Indian states of Jhark