11-14 February 2019. Jodhpur, India. The 13th International Conference on Dryland Development
Presentation at the session 12 February: TU - ICARDA Satellite
Pulses for Harvesting ‘More from Less’ in Dry Areas
Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Maalouf F, Biradar C, Nangia V, Saharawat Y, Sarker A, and Baum M
PAG-UNLAD NG EKONOMIYA na dapat isaalang alang sa pag-aaral.
Produce More from Less Pulses
1. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
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A CGIAR Research
Center
Pulses for Harvesting ‘More from Less’ in Dry Areas
Shiv Kumar Agrawal, Maalouf F, Biradar C, Nangia V,
Saharawat Y, Sarker A, and Baum M
International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
(ICARDA)
13th ICDD
Jodhpur, India
Feb 12, 2019
2. Feeding the Growing Population
• By 2050... World population
will grow to 9.2 billion =
growth of 37%
• Food production must
increase by more than 60%
...
• Triple burden of
malnutrition (Food
insecurity, undernutrition
and obesity)
Demand for Agricultural products
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Narrow Crop Diversity
After the Green Revolution, agricultural intensification
has led to cereal based monoculture.
MENA region
2.2 m ha legumes
85 m ha cereals
5. The strategy is to produce more crops:
• from less land,
• per drop of water,
• per unit input of fertilizers
and pesticides,
• per unit of energy, and
• per unit of C emission.
Produce
more
from less
Meeting Food Demand by 2050
7. Soil Health
Benefits of Legumes to Agriculture
Legumes can fix 70-210 kg/ha N
BNF is 20-22 million tons N/year
Residue of pulses has a lower C:N ratio (17) compared with
oilseed (41) and wheat (32)
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Biofortified Lentils
Trial
Zn (mg Kg-1
) Fe (mg Kg-1
) Se (mg Kg-1
)
Min Max Av Min Max Av Min Max Av
PYT 38.7 73.3 54.5 58.4 116.1 85.7 0.02 0.17 0.08
AYT 39.6 79.5 56.3 60.0 118.8 87.2 0.02 0.17 0.08
GCP 26.6 60.0 39.1 45.7 103.5 74.1 0.05 0.36 0.23
12. Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun
Aman rice Boro rice
Diversification of rice-rice system
12
<90 days Window
13. 1 : 1 line
Includes 20 data
points from
Lars Ohlander, SLU
Sweden
Source: Angus et al (2008) Australian Agronomy Conf, Adelaide , Australia.
www.regional.org.au/au/asa/2008/concurrent/rotations/5786_angusjf.htm
Rotational benefits of pulses on cereal crops
14. 0
5
10
15
20
25
Wheat Barley
Yield increase of wheat and barley
after faba bean
%
• Wheat, barley or cotton crop grown after faba bean may recover between 11 and 17% of
the plant N remaining after faba bean (NRAFB)
• NRAFB represent 2-19% of the total N requirement of those following crops
Jensen et al. 2010
Impact of faba bean on N dynamics of following wheat crop
15. Grain yield of wheat and legumes under rainfed vs irrigation
1.36
3.82
5.18
5.7
1.57
2.35
2.86
3.54
1.36
2.63
3.36
3.74
0.64
1.16
1.42
1.58
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
Rainfed 1/3FSI 2/3FSI FSI
Wheat Faba bean Chickpea Lentil
Tel Hadya, 2007-2010
Grainyield(ton/ha)
Substitution of cereals in rainfed areas
16. 0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
21 28 35 42 49 56 63 70 77 84 91 98
Waterused(kgpl-1)
Days after sowing
Sensitive
Tolerant
Tolerant: less WU at vegetative stage, more water left for reproduction
and grain filling
Adaptation to drought
Zaman-Allah et al. 2011 JXB
Vegetative Reprod/ Grain fill
CHICKPEA
17. 147 lentil genotypes
Genetic diversity for limited transpiration rate
under elevated midday VPD in lentil
(Guiguitant et al., 2017)
Breakpoint for VPD ranged from 1.38 to
3.47 KPa, with an average of 2.61 KPa
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Identification of water-saving lentils
Drought tolerant ILL7833
Transpiration rate (TR in mg H2O m-2 s-1) in response to vapor
pressure deficit (VPD in Kpa)
0 1 2 3 4 5
0
5 0
1 0 0
1 5 0
2 0 0
V P D (K P a )
Transpiration(mg/m2/s)
0 1 2 3 4 5
0
2 0
4 0
6 0
8 0
1 0 0
V P D (K P a )
Transpiration(mg/m2/s)
Drought susceptible ILL7813
19. For straw and grain yield
ZT > CT
Early > late planting
Zero tillage for low production cost
Farmer practice: CT, late sowing
670kg/ha
Improved practice: ZT, early sowing
1285kg/ha
Zero till lentil on wheat stubble 2007-08
22. • Allelopathy
• Enhanced productivity, nodulation
and N2 fixation of faba bean
through interspecific root
interactions.
• Faba bean biomass and grain yield
increased by 35% and 61%.
• Root exudates from maize increase
• root hair deformation and
nodulation in faba bean,
• double exudation of flavonoids
• up-regulate the expression of a
chalcone–flavanone isomerase
gene involved in flavonoid
synthesis, and genes mediating
nodulation and auxin response
Benefits of faba bean/maize intercropping
Source: Lee et al., 2016 (PNAS)
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Summary of Diversified Cropping Systems
Diversified
cropping
systems
Nutrient
cycling
Biodiversity
conservation
Natural
disease break
Productivity
Carbon
sequestration
Soil and
water
conservation
24. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas
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Thank you
Notes de l'éditeur
The United Nations declared 10 February as World Pulses Day, keeping alive the positive momentum surrounding these healthy, nutritious and protein-rich legumes after FAO's successful International Year of Pulses Campaign in 2016.
World Pulses Day is a new opportunity to heighten public awareness of the nutritional benefits of eating pulses. Pulses are more than just nutritious foods, they contribute to sustainable food systems and a Zero Hunger World.
By 2050... World population will grow to 9.2 billion = almost 37% more mouths than the present. To meet the demand of growing populations, Food production must increase by more than 60%. We have a choice either to go for a few crops like rice, wheat, maize or a diversified portfolio of crops including pulses. But then, we have to keep in mind the Triple burden of malnutrition (Food insecurity, undernutrition and obesity), declining natural resource base, and changing climate. Moreover, the future demand of various commodities shows that demand for oilseeds and pulses will increase more than 80% from a 2010-base.
MENA region produces 2.6 million MT of pulses from 2.2 million ha land as compared to 78 m tonnes from 85 m ha land globally
By 2050, we expect a population of 9 billion. This will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages as demand for food and energy will jump 70% and 100% and for fresh water by 30% that too at expensive rate (higher cost). Now, we have only one way to go – produce more from less.
Advances in technology innovation and synergy among configurations at field, farm and landscape scales are key to the future farming as family farmers strive to feed the world with limited natural resources. Innovation are required to improve resource use efficiency especially in terms of land, water and energy to boost efficiency and yields. Recent technological innovation in the digital soil maps, crop/variety suitability maps, stress probability maps, fertility maps, etc would be useful for planning sustainable agricultural intensification and NRM.
The current reliance on a few crop species is a cause of problems in crop production and increases the vulnerability of agriculture.
If we need to protect agri-biodiversity and soils, we need to grow a wider range of crops in more diverse rotations and cropping sequences.
Dry areas cover 41% of the earth’s surface, and are home to over 1.7 billion people – and majority of them are poor. About 16% of the population lives in chronic poverty, particularly in marginal rainfed areas.
With climate change and depleting natural resources, we need to focus on those climate smart crops which require not only less inputs but also contribute positively to soil health. Pulses fit in the prevailing cropping systems and they need to be mainstream in cereal based agricultural system.
Integration of legumes in the existing crop-livestock systems can reestablish the synergy which we lost in the past among plant, animal, human and environment in the quest of food and nutrition security. Integration of legumes in Cereal- livestock systems show low carbon and water footprints and provide healthy food to human and nutritious feed and fodder to animals besides of course low GHG emission due to its BNF ability. Legumes brings synergy with cereal-livestock production as they work in symbiosis with rhizobium and other beneficial microbes in the root zone that growing legumes is like SIP (systematic investment plan) for a bright future.
The successful use of Lens ervoides holds promise as a source of genes for resistance to other diseases and possibly for plant habit, biomass production and other important agronomic and market traits. With rapid advances in embryo rescue techniques, speed breeding and biotechnology tools, the prospect of transferring useful traits from exotic materials as well as wild gene pools in lentil has brightened. Wide genetic base of cultivated varieties provides a type of insurance against the epidemics of diseases and insect pests besides, of course, making the cultivated germplasm more amenable to breeding advances.
30 prebred lentils tested for their maturity in summer season-2018
In south Asia, vast area left fallow after rice harvest in rainfed regions. Rice fallow requires appropriate variety and specific production technology along with managing biotic and abiotic stresses through integrated approach. We could bring synergy by developing extra short duration varieties of legumes to fit in rice-rice systems and rice-wheat systems.
Under rainfed conditions, the productivity of crops like wheat and rice is as good as legumes. Under such conditions, legumes with high protein and less production inputs offers a good substitute to these cereals. Selection of appropriate crops/varieties and applying deficit irrigation can help increase water productivity in water limiting regions such as Mediterranean.
The range of atmospheric VPD in the chamber varied between 1.12 to 4.5 KPa.
The value for the breakpoint ranged from 1.38 to 3.47 KPa, with an average of 2.61 KPa
The slope of the regression at VPD greater than the Breakpoint ranged from 0.0773 to 30.54 mg H2O m -2 s -1 KPa-1 and an average of 20.05 mg H2O m -2 s -1 KPa-1
Sustainable intensification of crop and livestock production can reduce the need for additional land and with it the rate of deforestation. A number of productive mixed cropping and agro-forestry systems produce more food and feed from the same area of land, helping mitigate climate change through increased carbon sequestration and improving ecosystem services such as soil fertility. The cereal-legume system produces generally lower individual yields, compared with monocropping, but increases land use efficiency and gives higher economic returns.
Plant diversity often leads to an increase in ecosystem productivity, but the underpinning mechanisms remain poorly understood. There is a renewed interest in legume/cereal intercropping/mixed cropping, to build agro-diversity and resilient cropping systems, and this research has important implications for developing sustainable agro-diversity.
Agriculture is at a really exciting juncture. It is perfectly timed to take advantage of the latest developments in on-farm data capture and to kick-start the process of providing end users with knowledge and tools to make data-driven farming decisions.