Precision water management in rice and wheat in Haryana, India
#MoveTheDate Solutions
Personal / Community: Community project
Food sub-categories: Waste, Food security, Diet
Description: Rice-wheat farmers using laser land levelers on 500,000 hectares in Haryana, India increase harvests by 7%, save 1 billion cubic meters of irrigation water, and mitigate 82,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide per year.
Website about this solution: https://ccafs.exposure.co/climate-action-in-progress
Why I love this solution: Reduced energy needed for pumping water and cultivation and reduced fertilizer needed translate into mitigation co-benefits of laser-land leveling.