ABIDAT is a collaborative venture between the ABAN Group of India and Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. This Institute attempts to bring to India the proven concepts, applications and adaptation approaches of Israel so that stakeholders, including farmers in India may benefit and acquire to innovate and learn ways to grow crops and manage the entire Farming systems with lesser water and resources. It is a known fact that water will be very scarce in the foreseeable future because the demand for the elixir of life far outstrips the supply in most parts of the world. Human enterprise extracts nearly a trillion cubic meters of groundwater annually around the world, with 70% of it flowing to agricultural uses. India ranks 1st among countries in the use of groundwater, and extraction has spiked from 25 billion cubic meters in 1960 to 250 billion cubic meters in 2015.