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Regional Analysis of Household Consumption of Sorghum in Major Sorghum-Producing and Consuming States in India-Working Paper Series no. 28.

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Title Regional Analysis of Household Consumption of Sorghum in Major Sorghum-Producing and Consuming States in India-Working Paper Series no. 28.
 
Creator Basavaraj, G
Rao, P P
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description In the past, studies that have analyzed household consumption data of the National Sample
Survey Organization (NSSO) show a long term declining trend in per capita consumption
of nutritious cereals such as sorghum and pearl millet both at National and State levels.
However, a true picture can be drawn by looking at the household consumption data at a
disaggregated regional level. Regional disaggregation of sorghum consumption shows that
sorghum is still important in the consumption basket particularly in rural regions of central,
eastern and western Maharashtra, and northern Karnataka. The NSSO data used for this
analysis does not separate consumption by kharif (rainy season) and rabi (postrainy season)
sorghum. The bulk of rabi sorghum is used for food consumption due to its superior grain
quality, while only 40-50% of kharif sorghum is used for direct food use. The finding thus
suggests that an increase in rabi sorghum production through productivity increase would
help to bring down the prices of rabi sorghum and make its consumption affordable for low
income consumers.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2011
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6422/1/J258_2011%20WPS%2028_full.pdf
Basavaraj, G and Rao, P P (2011) Regional Analysis of Household Consumption of Sorghum in Major Sorghum-Producing and Consuming States in India-Working Paper Series no. 28. Working Paper. International Crops Research Institute for Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh India.