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About two-thirds of the land surface are drylands with low rainfall, extreme rainfall variability, severe heat and cold stress. Climate change effects above global average exacerbate these natural constraints. Despite the large growth potential in agriculture characterized by high diversity, productivity is low. Soils are often eroded and depleted of nutrients at a very large scale. This is owing to unsustainable practices prevailing in the past, centrally planned Soviet economy.
Improving agricultural productivity in Central Asia and Caucasus is an urgent task for the nations and calls upon the national and international research communities to act.
International agricultural research in the Region has been making contributions in terms of building the human and institutional research capacities, producing and out-scaling more productive and more resistant plant varieties, improving livestock, introducing better water irrigation management practices, developing more sustainable methods in agriculture that save water and need less fertilizers or pesticides. The researchers in Central Asia and Caucasus work together with farmers and policy makers for a better future, increasingly turning their attention to more integrated land and water management systems.
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Progress report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Progress report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Author(s): Aziz Nurbekov  Download |
Inception report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Inception report on project “Conservation agriculture for irrigated areas in Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan” Author(s): Aziz Nurbekov Download |
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Events of This Month
| 10 - 11 May | Wheat Breeder’s Traveling Seminar – Karshi, Gallaral, Kibray in Uzbekistan |
| 12 May | Media-tour with students of Tashkent State Agrarian University to wild fruit forests |
| 13 - 14 May | “Sorghum and Pearl Millet for Crop Diversification Improved Crop-Livestock Productivity and Farmers Livelihood in Central Asia” project workshop |
| 14 – 17 May | CRP1.1 Regional Inception workshop for Central Asia and the Caucasus |
| 18 May | Training “ Access of Women to scientific achievements and innovations” |
| 18 May | Workshop in the Bostanlyk Agricultural College “Integration of Education, Science And Production In Colleges” |
| 18 May | Republican scientific practical conference “Distribution and conservation of fruit crops and their wild relatives” |
| 18 May | “Issues in conservation of agrobiodiversity, its role in development of agricultural sector, achieving in food security and environmental sustainability” |
| 21-25 May | National training workshop “ Application of technologies of molecular markers in PGR researches” |
| May | Field Day (in UzRIPI) |
| May | Adoption and Out-scaling of Improved Varieties of Wheat in Georgia |
| May | Wheat Breeder’s Traveling Seminar |
| May | Formal and Field Training courses on zero-till cum bed planter and land leveling technology in Uzbekistan |
| May | Formal and Field Training courses on zero-till cum bed planter and land leveling technology in Kazakhstan |
| May | Formal and Field Training courses on zero-till cum bed planter and land leveling technology in Azerbaijan |
| May | Farmers’ Field Day on Out-scaling of Chickpea, Barley and Wheat Varieties in Tajikistan |
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BAUDOUIN AWARD
| CGIAR "King Baudouin Science Award for Outstanding Partnership" awarded to the Program for Sustainable Agriculture in Central Asia and the Caucasus (CAC) in December, 2008. | ||
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