Murali Krishna Gumma, Prasad S. Thenkabail, A. Maunahan, Md Saidul Islam et al.
Rice is the most consumed staple food in the world and a key crop for food security. Much of the world’s rice is produced and consumed in Asia where cropping intensity is often greater than 100% (more than one crop per year), yet this intensity is not sufficiently represented in many land use produc...
Murali Krishna Gumma, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Adam Oliphant et al.
The South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan) has a staggering 900 million \npeople (~43% of the population) who face food insecurity or severe food insecurity as per United \nNations, Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) the Food Insecurity Experience Scale ...
Murali Krishna Gumma, Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardharsadhi Teluguntla, Mahesh Rao et al.
The goal of this study was to map rainfed and irrigated rice-fallow cropland areas across South Asia, using MODIS 250 m time-series data and identify where the farming system may be intensified by the inclusion of a short-season crop during the fallow period. Rice-fallow cropland areas are those are...
Xiaoming Xu, Suravi Shrestha, Hammad Gilani, Murali Krishna Gumma et al.
Abstract Bangladesh has undergone dramatic land use and land cover changes (LULCC) in recent years, but no quantitative analysis of LULCC drivers at the national scale exists so far. Here, we quantified the drivers of major LULCC in combination with biophysical and socioeconomic observations at the ...
Josh Gray, M. A. Friedl, Steve Frolking, Navin Ramankutty et al.
Agricultural systems are geographically extensive, have profound significance to society, and affect regional energy, climate, and water cycles. Since most suitable lands worldwide have been cultivated, there is a growing pressure to increase yields on existing agricultural lands. In tropical and su...
Prasad S. Thenkabail, Pardhasaradhi Teluguntla, Jun Xiong, Adam Oliphant et al.
First posted November 19, 2021 For additional information, contact: Director, Western Geographic Science Center U.S. Geological Survey350 N. Akron Rd. Moffett Field, CA 94035 Global food and water security analysis and management require precise and accurate global cropland-extent maps. Existing map...
Khondoker Abdul Mottaleb, Murali Krishna Gumma, Ashok K. Mishra, Samarendu Mohanty
P.H. Zaidi, Thanh Văn Nguyễn, Dang Ngoc Ha, Suriphat Thaitad et al.
Most parts of the Asian tropics are hotspots of climate change effects and associated weather variabilities. One of the major challenges with climate change is the uncertainty and inter-annual variability in weather conditions as crops are frequently exposed to different weather extremes within the ...
Hari D. Upadhyaya, K. N. Reddy, Mani Vetriventhan, Murali Krishna Gumma et al.
Abstract The genebank at ICRISAT, India that serves as a world repository for sorghum germplasm conserves 39,234 accessions from 93 countries, including 6249 from seven South Asian countries: Afghanistan (6), Bangladesh (9), India (6101), the Maldives (10), Nepal (8), Pakistan (90) and Sri Lanka (25...
Murali Krishna Gumma, Alison Nelson, A. Maunahan, Prasad S. Thenkabail et al.
Rice is the major staple food crop in Bangladesh.The harvested area covers 11.5 million hectares (because of 2-3 crops per year) or 80% of the cultivated area.Agriculture is the most important sector in Bangladesh's economy.It contributes 19.6% to the gross domestic product (GDP) and provides employ...
Atul K. Jain, S Seshadri, Jatin Anand, Naveen Chandra et al.
Abstract As part of the REgional Carbon Cycle Assessment and Processes‐2 (RECCAP‐2) project of the Global Carbon Project, here we estimate the GHG budgets (anthropogenic and natural sources and sinks) for the South Asia (SA) region as a whole and each country (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India,...