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Adoption of improved chickpea varieties: KRIBHCO experience in tribal region of Gujarat, India

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Title Adoption of improved chickpea varieties: KRIBHCO experience in tribal region of Gujarat, India
 
Creator Shiyani, R L
Joshi, P K
Asokan, M
Bantilan, M C S
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description The study aims to track adoption of improved chickpea varieties, and assess their on-farm benefits in some remote and backward tribal villages in Gujarat, India, where few newly developed varieties were introduced by a non-government organization. It also determines key factors which were influencing their adoption. The study found that adoption of improved chickpea varieties was gradually increasing by replacing a prominent local variety. Duration of crop maturity, farm size, yield risk, and farmers' experience of growing chickpea crop were significantly influencing their adoption. The on-farm benefits as a result of improved varieties were realized in terms of increased yield levels, higher income and labor productivity, more marketable surplus, price premium and stabilized yields in fluctuating weather. Breeding short duration varieties with stable yield levels under varying weather, and organizing seed multiplication and dissemination in regions, where moisture stress is a problem during maturity of chickpea, are the major suggestions
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2002
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/7169/1/Agricultural%20Economics_27_1_33%E2%80%9339_2002.pdf
Shiyani, R L and Joshi, P K and Asokan, M and Bantilan, M C S (2002) Adoption of improved chickpea varieties: KRIBHCO experience in tribal region of Gujarat, India. Agricultural Economics, 27 (1). pp. 33-39. ISSN 1574-0862