Farmers face many challenges like climate change, declining soil fertility, water management issues, and unstable market prices. Sustainable agriculture practices are needed to help farmers adapt. These include developing drought-resistant crops, water conservation methods, using biochar and compost to improve soils, weather-based crop insurance, and empowering farmers with access to information, education, markets, credit, and decision-making power. Monitoring soil moisture, water flows, and weather data can help farmers better manage resources and yields.

1. SUSTAINING FARMERS
VANDEMATARAM FOUNDATION Dr. N. SAI BHASKAR REDDY

3. SUSTAINABLE
AGRICULTURE
SUSTAINING
FARMERS

5. RICH FARMERS ~ RICH NATIONS
Farmers before independence were
supporting kingdoms, none of the
rulers nor kingdoms ever had any
debt in the past.

8. MAJOR CHALLENGES
Climate change Soil fertility Water
management
Market & Price Burning of crop
residue
Alkalinity of soils

9. DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
Arid and semi-arid areas
•one third of the earth’s
surface land area.
Crop yields are declining
•Fertilizers inputs,
droughts and shortages
of irrigation water

10. http://www.eoearth.org/edit/article/51cbeda07896bb431f692df8/

11. CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate
change will
affect
Food and
Water
security.
The coming
decades global
warming will
cause Droughts,
floods, changes in
rainfall patterns,
severe freshwater
shortages, and
shifts in crop
growing
Adaptive
measures are
needed to
mitigate expected
adverse outcomes

12. AGRICULTURE SHARE
GDP VS. EMPLOYMENT
http://data.worldbank.org/sites/default/files/wdi-final.pdf

13. 75% rural debt is due to
purchased inputs
Farmer rarely
gets profits
that he
deserves for
the efforts.
75% rural debt is due to
purchased inputs
Farmer
rarely gets
profits that
he deserves
for the
efforts.

14. LASTFARMER

15. FARMER IS AN ASSET
& NOT LIABILITY

16. INFORMATION BASED AGRICULTURE
Telemarketing of farm Produce
Mobile phone applications
Internet
Webcams in market yards
Social network for farmers
Tabs for farmers
Information access & sharing
Live channel for farmers
APPS
•Gps / gis
•Image Processing
•Data Mining
•Simulation

17. Human / Social Natural / Environmental / Physical Economic / Political
SCENARIO 1
Policies/Structures Vulnerability Adaptability
Rural Poverty Livelihoods Diversification
Appropriate Skills Water Management
Agriculture Production Water Resources
Energy
Climate Change
Community Empowerment
Bio Diversity

18. CHILDREN MUST
KNOW
AGRICULTURE

19. FARMERS DESERVE RIGHT PRICE
Farmers feel bad when the
whole system conspires to
bring down the prices when
they rarely get good price.
We are not
exploiting a farmer
They would be no
more at the mercy
of policies.
The farmer would
also pay taxes for
development of
nation
Once again we
would see debt
free nations.

20. FARMER’S DESERVE
RESPECT

21. WAY FORWARD: ADAPTATION

22. WAY FORWARD: WEATHER BASED CROP
INSURANCE

23. WAY FORWARD: BIOCHAR
Biochar is another name for
charcoal used for purposes
other than combustion.
Like all charcoal, biochar is
created by the pyrolysis of
biomass.

24. WAY FORWARD: BIOCHAR
APPLICATION
SOIL CARBON INCREASE
MOISTURE CONSERVATION
FERTILIZERS CONSERVATION
INCREASE IN YIELD

25. JAGGERYCOMPOST
BIOCHAR
SOIL MICROBES
GREEN MULCH

26. BIOCHAR COMPOST – OWN FERTILIZERS

27. CROP YIELD INCREASE
SOIL IMPROVEMENT

28. Way Forward: FLOATIGATION

29. Road
Sewerage
Clean water for irrigation
Drip Irrigation
WAY FORWARD: SEWAGIGATION

30. Way Forward: ROADS AS DAMS

31. WAY FORWARD: WATER USE EFFICIENCY
MONITORING
WATER AND
ENVIRONMENTAL
PARAMETERS
MONITORING
MANAGEMENT
DECISION
SUPPORT
SYSTEMS

32. Way Forward: Monitoring the flows

33. Way Forward: Monitoring the flows

34. Solar Power
Arduino, SIM 900, Battery,
Temp and Relative
Humidity sensor
Bowman Water Tube with
ultrasonic sensor
RBC Flume with ultrasonic
sensor
ClimaAdapt Project, Kondrapole, Miryalaguda, Nalgonda
Way Forward:

35. WATER LEVEL IN FIELD WATER TUBE USING
ULTRASONIC SENSOR
Way Forward:

36. Way Forward: AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION

37. GLOW LEVEL
FOR TUBE
WELLS
Way Forward:

38. SOIL MOISTURE
MEASUREMENT
Way Forward:

39. Self Help Thrift groups
Pension plan
Health & life insurance
Cooperatives
People centric policy
Storage facilities
Loan on the storage
Food processing Tech’s
Stock exchange – Barter system
Leadership training
Awareness and exposure
Control of Commission agents