Kuttanad Farming System - Officers Pulse
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Kuttanad Farming System
Transcript of Kuttanad Farming System - Officers Pulse
Kuttanad Wetland Agriculture System isunique, as it is the only system in Indiathat favours rice cultivation below sea
level in the land created by draining deltaswamps in brackish waters.
As an approach to cope with theimminent climate impacts in coastalareas and evolve efficient methods itaims to deal with soil availability and
floods issues in agriculture.
What is Kuttanad WetlandSystem?
It is also a GIAHS designated site
The Globally Important Agricultural HeritageSystems (GIAHS) programme was started bythe Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)in 2002 for spreading public awareness and
to safeguard world agricultural heritage sites.
The objective is to support the internationalcommunity to put forward food production
practices that make skilful use of natural resourceand protect soil health and biodiversity.
GIAHS programme
2002
GIAHS designated places in India:o Saffron Heritage of Kashmiro Koraput Traditional Agriculture, Odisha o Kuttanad Below Sea Level FarmingSystem, Kerala
Kuttanad is facing a crop lossin the second crop season for
the second year in a row.
Last year, back-to-back floodshad destroyed the additional
crop in its entirety.
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