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Baseline Scenario of Rainy Season Pearl Millet in Haryana - Working Paper Series No. 40

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Title Baseline Scenario of Rainy Season Pearl Millet in Haryana - Working Paper Series No. 40
 
Creator Nagaraj, N
Kundu, K K
Haldar, S
Bantilan, M C S
Chandrakanth, M G
 
Subject Millets
 
Description Pearl millet has been cultivated in Haryana as a dual purpose crop where grain and fodder are most
often valued equally, which supports poor smallholders and livestock in the harsh agro-climatic
region. Currently, the productivity levels are low because of limited adoption of dryland technologies
by the poor. The HOPE project aimed at increasing the productivity of pearl millet by 35-40 % over
the base level by introducing on-shelf technology and improved management practices in the
targeted clusters over a period of four years. In this regard, the baseline survey was carried out in the
primary project intervention area (HOPE) where improved technologies have been introduced, and in
matching control villages with comparable agro-ecological and market conditions in non-intervention
areas (non-HOPE), where improved technologies have not been made. The objective of this baseline
survey was to appraise the existing situation of the targeted cluster villages with respect to adoption
of technologies, productivity, income, yield gaps and other socioeconomic issues. Pearl millet is the
major crop in the rainy season followed by mustard and gram in the rabi (postrainy) season. The
average productivity of pearl millet ranges from 1.54 – 1.79 t/ha as against the potential yield of 2.5 –
2.9 t/ha, leaving a yield gap of 58-101%. In the HOPE clusters, adoption rate of hybrids is at the peak,
covering around 48% (out of 124.5 ha) under public bred hybrids (HHB 67, HHB 67 Improved), and 50
% under proprietary hybrids. While the same in non-HOPE area was 35% (out of 54.8 ha) under public
bred hybrids, and rest of the area is under proprietary hybrids. The yield gap of improved hybrids
of pearl millet was estimated as 58-101%, as compared to the potential yield, which shows further
scope for improvement in productivity levels. On an average, farmers were reaping a net benefit of is
Rs.2108 per ha in HOPE areas, while it was Rs.6238 per ha in non-HOPE area, after accounting the total
costs. Farmers most preferred traits in public hybrids of pearl millet inter alia include more palatable
grain and fodder quality and disease-pest-moisture stress. Key critical constraints expressed by the
farmers are shortage of labour especially during harves
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2013
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/6994/1/Haryana-wps40.pdf
Nagaraj, N and Kundu, K K and Haldar, S and Bantilan, M C S and Chandrakanth, M G (2013) Baseline Scenario of Rainy Season Pearl Millet in Haryana - Working Paper Series No. 40. Working Paper. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh.