EnvironmentICAR-IISWC's Chandigarh centre has released Sloping Agricultural Land Technology, a dual-purpose farm pond and a decision support app for designing spurs, gabion walls and check dams, aimed at the Shivalik hills.
ICAR-IISWC planted bamboo and kachnar on erosion-prone slopes and guava and amla on field bunds in three villages of Kalsi, Dehradun, to show farmers how trees can stop soil loss and add income.
The Braddock, Kellogg, Hammersmith, McKown, Wolfe families and Turpin Farms will be honoured on 24 September at Farm Science Review in a programme founded by Ohio Farmer magazine and now run by the Ohio Department of Agriculture.
Twenty-eight Ethiopian researchers, ministry staff and NGO workers spent four days in Arba Minch learning landscape-based natural resource management from ICAR and ICRISAT scientists, combining classroom work with a visit to a GIZ-supported micro-watershed.
EnvironmentUSDA's Economic Research Service reported in June 2026 that 36 percent of US corn, soybean, cotton and wheat acres with water-driven erosion received technical assistance, more than for any other field problem.
EnvironmentUSDA's Economic Research Service reported on 30 April 2026 that cover cropping was the top-funded EQIP practice from fiscal 2014 to 2025, ahead of fences, brush management, sprinkler systems and waste-facility roofs and covers.
