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Participatory Technology<br />

Development in <strong>Rainfed</strong><br />

<strong>Rice</strong>-Based Farming<br />

Systems of Eastern India<br />

R<br />

ice farming in eastern India is complex, diverse and risk-prone. By the<br />

early 1980s it was realised that the development of technologies for<br />

rainfed areas should take a different research approach from the<br />

conventional on-station research type for the irrigated homogeneous areas. Onfarm<br />

research within the context of farming systems was emphasised starting in<br />

1983-1984, as part of the Eastern India Farming Systems <strong>Research</strong> project.<br />

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