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Opportunities for Chickpea Production in Rainfed Rice Fallows of India. Baseline Survey Report

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Grain Legumes Program Report No. 1
 
Title Opportunities for Chickpea Production in Rainfed Rice Fallows of India. Baseline Survey Report
 
Creator Pande, S
Sharma, M
Ghosh, R
Rao, S K
Sharma, R N
Jha, A K
 
Subject Chickpea
Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The study explored opportunities and constraints of chickpea production by introducing it as a
second crop in rainfed rice-fallow lands (RRFL) of Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh states of
India. About 12 million ha of rainfed rice lands in India remains uncultivated in the postrainy
season (rabi), of which 40% lies in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. The RRFL offers significant
opportunities for the intensification of agricultural production in these states. Chickpea is one of
the important pulses that can be successfully grown in RRFL on residual moisture, and can
escape terminal drought. It provides sufficient scope for augmenting employment opportunities
and income of the farming community. Inadequate irrigation facilities coupled with low residual
soil moisture is the main limiting factor to utilization of RRFL for crop production in rabi. Drought
alone may reduce crop yield by 50%. A quantum jump in productivity can be achieved by applying
life-saving irrigation especially in rabi pulses grown on residual moisture. Extraction and use of
ground and surface water for irrigation is difficult and costly. Private investment in irrigation has
its limitations because most of the farmers are resource-poor and practice subsistence farming.
The creation of public irrigation infrastructure also requires huge investment and social cost. The
lack of basic infrastructure to promote agriculture is another important constraint. Value addition
in agriculture is low due to lack of primary agro-processing facilities and agricultural markets in
the villages. Agricultural markets are generally far from the villages. The average distance of the
markets from the selected villages varied from 10 to 27 km in Chhattisgarh and 10 to 24 km in
Madhya Pradesh. The price of chickpea is another important determinant. About 85 to 98% of
the farmers cited the low price of chickpea as an important reason for their reluctance to cultivate
the crop. Farmers often are constrained to take any price that is being offered to them because
they lack sufficient surplus to influence the market. Moreover, the prices in the local markets keep
fluctuating and even remain below the statuary prices due to lack of marketing facilities, such as
procurement by the Government agencies, cooperatives etc. Low demand in the local markets
is another important reason for the low adoption of chickpea or other rabi pulses for production
in RRFL. It exists due to the difference between the consumption and production preferences for
the pulses in the selected regions. Other pulses are often grown due to the low opportunity costs
of the fallow lands...
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6070/1/RP_GL_BaselineSurveyReport_1_2012.pdf
Pande, S and Sharma, M and Ghosh, R and Rao, S K and Sharma, R N and Jha, A K (2012) Opportunities for Chickpea Production in Rainfed Rice Fallows of India. Baseline Survey Report. Project Report. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.