Read more at: Using the past to inform policy: How can crop diversification solve Punjab’s impending water shortage?
Using the past to inform policy: How can crop diversification solve Punjab’s impending water shortage?
16 August 2021
The cultivation of primarily wheat and paddy in Punjab is increasingly depleting groundwater supplies in the region, and thus crop diversification is an important path to reducing water use. Here, archaeological research carried out by FP4 researchers Dr Cameron Petrie and Dr Adam Green which demonstrates the relevance of ancient agricultural practices to a modern water shortage is put in conversation with policy targets proposed by FP4 researchers Dr Shruti Bhogal and Dr Kamal Vatta to promote crop diversification in Punjab.
