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In
order to address the problems plaguing Indian
Agriculture, it is critical to redirect and augment
resources devoted to agricultural research to the
farming and livelihood systems of the poor rural
communities. To utilize the technological breakthroughs
that are already available for commercial use, the
agricultural research priorities and strategies will
have to be revisited and new system-wide approaches need
to be developed and adopted.
The
NAIP envisages to put up a coordinated effort on the
following:
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Policy and technology
options
will be screened or tested by the end-user for
applicability as well as for economic, social and
environmental sustainability.
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In
the applied and adaptive research projects, the
end-user of innovations will
be involved from the start of programme and projects
and will remain partner till their completion.
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Both indigenous
knowledge and frontier technologies will be
used to generate the targeted products.
OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE
NAIP
To
facilitate an accelerated and sustainable transformation
of the Indian agriculture so that it can support poverty
alleviation and income generation through collaborative
development and application of agricultural innovations
by the public organizations in partnership with farmers’
groups, the private sector and other stakeholders.
The
specific objectives envisaged are:
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To
build the critical capacity of the ICAR as a
catalyzing agent for management of change in the
Indian NARS (Component
1)
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To
promote ‘production to consumption systems research’
in priority areas/ themes to enhance productivity,
nutrition, profitability, income and employment (Component
2)
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To
improve livelihood security of rural people living
in the selected disadvantaged regions through
technology-led innovation systems, encompassing the
wider process of social and economic change covering
all stakeholders (Component
3)
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To
build capacity to undertake basic and strategic
research in frontier areas to meet challenges in
technology development in the immediate and
predictable future (Component
4)
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