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Making farming pay: Market-based solutions to poverty [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]

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Relation http://oar.icrisat.org/6661/
 
Title Making farming pay: Market-based solutions to poverty [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]
 
Creator ICRISAT, ESA
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description As a smallholder farmer in Zambia’s Eastern
Province, Lungu’s biggest source of cash to turn
his dreams into reality will come from the sale of
groundnuts. And for the last two seasons, the
markets have been paying Lungu well for the
new high-yielding variety of groundnuts he is
now growing. MGV-4, also known as CG-7, was
recently released in Zambia and the red-colored
groundnut has higher yields than the other
varieties Lungu previously grew. Today Lungu is
no longer just a dreamer. Tangible rewards from
the marketplace have turned his dreams into the
fi rst steps of a new reality.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6661/1/Making_farming_pay.pdf
ICRISAT, ESA (2012) Making farming pay: Market-based solutions to poverty [ICRISAT Eastern and Southern Africa 2011 Highlights]. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India.