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Pigeonpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia, Insights from TL-II (Phase 1) Project in India.

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Title Pigeonpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia, Insights from TL-II (Phase 1) Project in India.
 
Creator Kumara Charyulu, D
Bantilan, C
Sunandini, G P
Deshmukh, R G
Sameer Kumar, C V
Marawar, M W
Rao, G D N
Rajalaxmi, A
Shyam, D M
Saxena, K B
 
Subject Pigeonpea
 
Description Pigeonpea is an important pulse crop particularly in the semi-arid tropics of India contributing towards the
nutritional security and also generates significant income to small and marginal farmers. Its share in India’s
pulse production is around 16%. India is the largest pigeonpea producing country in the world accounting for
nearly 67% of the total production. Being a major pigeonpea consumer in the world, India imports around
0.6 million tons of pigeonpea per year to meet the domestic needs from Africa, Nepal and Myanmar. Area
and production of pigeonpea in India showed a steady growth until recently. However, the productivity
in the country has stagnated between 700 and 800 kg ha-1. Recent initiatives like National Food Security
Mission (NFSM), Accelerated Pulse Production Programme (A3P) and enhancement of minimum support
price created more interest in pigeonpea growers in the country. Pigeonpea is one of the mandate crops of
the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and this premier international
institute has been contributing significantly to the genetic improvement and crop management in India
and Africa during the last four decades. The generous support received from the Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation (BMGF) has provided ICRISAT an opportunity to work more intensively with its research and
development partners to demonstrate the potential of new technologies to enhance the yields, raise the
profitability and revive the interest of the farmers in pigeonpea crop in India and the strategy chosen is
farmer participatory varietal selection (FPVS). This report synthesizes the efforts made under the Tropical
Legumes-II Project during the short period of three years (2007-10) in the states of Andhra Pradesh and
Maharashtra for pigeonpea crop improvement in India. Overall, the FPVS results established that the new
improved varieties outyielded the respective check varieties in the two states. The diffusion and adoption
of these varieties increased significantly in the targeted districts. From the past lessons learnt, the report
re-focuses on further efforts needed during the second phase of the project to achieve greater success and impact.
 
Publisher ICRISAT
 
Date 2014
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8354/1/Research%20Report-24.pdf
Kumara Charyulu, D and Bantilan, C and Sunandini, G P and Deshmukh, R G and Sameer Kumar, C V and Marawar, M W and Rao, G D N and Rajalaxmi, A and Shyam, D M and Saxena, K B (2014) Pigeonpea Baseline and Early Adoption Surveys in South Asia, Insights from TL-II (Phase 1) Project in India. Documentation. ICRISAT, Patancheru.