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Response farming focuses on water and its management
at farm level.
The concept is that improved information about water supply (rainfall)
prospects and about impacts of alternative actions which may be
taken, would equip farmers to more closely meet their goals. A major
factor affecting yields and production, particularly in developing
countries, is the inter-seasonal weather variation. There is a clear
need to assist subsistence farmers in supplying information in order
to adapt the agricultural system to increased weather variability.
Farmers should be able to plan their practices, given the recent
past weather conditions, i.e. through contingency planning and response
farming.
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