CRIDA is a National Research Institute under the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) established in 1985 with a mandate to carry out basic and applied research in rainfed farming.  The Institute also undertakes National/ International Collaborations and Consultancy Projects.   All India Coordinated Research Programmes (AICRPs) of ICAR on Dryland Agriculture and Agrometeorology with 25 partners each are in CRIDA. This is the lead Institute and the National Nodal point for the National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA) which is being implemented at large number of Research Institutes of ICAR, State Agricultural Universities and 100 KVKs.

News

• CRIDA wins Best Annual Report Award

Latest Publications

• Special Issue : Journal of Agrometeorology editors VUM Rao and B Bapuji Rao

• Ch Srinivasa Rao, B Venkateswarlu, R Veeraiah, S Rammohan, Vjay S. Jakkula, Sreenath Dixit, B Shivarudrappa and RV Ramamohan Vermicompositing for Efficient Crop Residue Recycling, Soil Health Improvement and Imparting Climate Resilience - Experiences from Rainfed Tribal Regions

• K Ravi Shankar, K Nagasree, P Muthuraman, DBV Ramana, GR Maruthi Sankar, MS Prasad, BMK Raju and B Venkateswarlu  Assessment of Rainfed Technologies Adoption under Semi-arid Regions in South India

• Kaushalya Ramachandran, Venkateshwarlu B, Ramarao CA, Rao VUM, Raju BMK, Rao AVMS, Saikia US, Thilagavathi N, Gayatri M, Satish J, 2013. Assessment of Vulnerability of Indian Agriculture to rainfall variability - Use of NOAA-AVHRR (8km) & MODIS (250m) Time-Series NDVI Product. Climate Change & Environmental Sustainability 1(1):37-52. 

• Kaushalya Ramachandran, Venkateshwarlu B, Ramarao CA, Rao VUM, Rao KV, Raju BMK, Rao AVMS, Ramana DBV, Manoranjan Kumar, Nagasree K, Ravi Shankar K, Gayatri M, Satish J,  Praveen V, 2013. Assessing Agricultural Vulnerability to Climate Change using NDVI data products. (In):Geospatial Technologies for Natural Resources Management (Eds. Soam, S.K., Sreekanth, P.D. and Rao, N.H.). New India Publishing Agency, ISBN: 978-93-81450-80-2, 345-362.

Upcoming Events

• Summer School on "Agroforestry as a strategy for adaptation and mitigation of climate change in rainfed areas" (04-24 September 2013)