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Chickpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia Insights from TL-II (Phase-I) Project: Synthesis Report 2013

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Title Chickpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia Insights from TL-II (Phase-I) Project: Synthesis Report 2013
 
Creator Suhasini, K
Girish, K N
Bantilan, M C S
Kumara Charyulu, D
Nageswara Rao, G D
Jayalakshmi, V
Vijayakumar, A G
Mannur, D M
Satish, Y
Gaur, P M
Rao, K P C
 
Subject Chickpea
 
Description Chickpea is one of the most important pulse crops in India. Its area reached a peak at the beginning
of the green revolution in the country, but rapid strides in wheat productivity have encouraged
farmers in north-western India to substitute wheat for chickpea, causing a fall in its area and
production. Nevertheless, the crop soon found a new home in the central and southern states
of the country. It was a big challenge for the chickpea scientists in India’s national program and
at the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-arid Tropics (ICRISAT) to breed short
duration but high yielding varieties and develop a package of practices suitable to the warmer
growing conditions. Very soon, the crop recovered area as well as production on the back of rising
productivity. For ICRISAT, the generous support received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
(BMGF) was an excellent opportunity to work with its research and development partners in India to
accelerate the productivity growth by following the strategy of Farmer Preferred Varietal Selection
(FPVS). This approach shortens the time needed to popularize the new varieties by exposing them to
farmers and by backing up the varieties preferred by the farmers through intensive seed production
efforts. This report documents the rapid strides made in taking the new varieties to the farmers
by the FPVS process, and producing and supplying the seeds of varieties preferred by them during
2007-10.
 
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/7930/1/RP_19.pdf
Suhasini, K and Girish, K N and Bantilan, M C S and Kumara Charyulu, D and Nageswara Rao, G D and Jayalakshmi, V and Vijayakumar, A G and Mannur, D M and Satish, Y and Gaur, P M and Rao, K P C (2013) Chickpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia Insights from TL-II (Phase-I) Project: Synthesis Report 2013. Monograph. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.