Efficient water and fertilizer use towards yield increases and mitigation of GHG by AIC Agro Instruments

This group represents manufacturers of tensiometers and soil testing kits - serving farmers globally. We personally have worked with institutions and farmers in 10 nations other than India and through our global collaborators in almost every country in the world. Other manufacturers, whom we represent are, , Irrometer Co of USA, SDEC of France, UMS GmbH of Germany, Soil Measurement Systems & Soilmoisture Equipment Corporation of USA.

Together, we are will poised to support the farmer population globally.

Other changes in proposal include the inclusion of data received from our user scientist - http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167880916302535 which successfully demonstrates the promise of the tensiometer.

Accordingly projections have been altered. The projections listed in impact are built on the premise that adoption is a coerced one. Field studies show that upto 60% CH4 emissions have been curtailed by controlled irrigation. We are confident of being able to demonstrate control of the N2O and CO2 outputs through fertilizer management and afforestation exercises.

We expect adoption to peak by 2050 to encompass 95% of population - enforced by State level interventions and policies – towards highest possible GHG mitigation.

At present trends Land use & other sectors are expected to give rise to almost 3600 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent/decade by 2050

We expect a best case adoption scenario to drop this emission to about a tenth of the present trend value – to about 380 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent/decade by 2050

Other than this formatting and rephrasing of certain ideas have been done.