The Grand Challenge
This Grand Challenge can offer 3 categories of transition:
- 01
50% reduction in chemical fertilizers and crop care inputs.
- 02
75% reduction of Chemical Fertilizers and Crop Care Inputs.
- 03
100% reduction of Chemical Fertilizers and Crop Care Inputs.
All reductions in first crop cycle itself, ensuring equal or higher profitability for the farmers at market price of the farm produce.
To be part of this Grand Challenge, input producing companies, their consortium, NGO groups, Start-ups, Cooperatives, Research Institutions or individuals can participate where during the first year they demonstrate the protocols with top 20 crops in 5 - 1 Acre plots in different agroclimatic zones which can be guided by ICAR. The demonstrations should be done with progressive farmers already doing high profitable farming with their existing practices. They can be identified through ICAR/ KJ
The Grand Challenge Details, Monitoring Process and Evaluation Matrix(Proposed) is provided in the MIONP Framework Document