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Improving the livelihoods of dryland farmers through the introduction of potato cropping: a proposal based on detailed SWOT analysis

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Title Improving the livelihoods of dryland farmers through the introduction of potato cropping: a proposal based on detailed SWOT analysis
 
Creator Rana, Rajesh K.
 
Contributor Arya, Sushma
Kumar, Suresh
Quiroz, Roberto
Kadian, Mohinder
Mares, Victor
Turin, Cecilia
Shalander, Kumar
 
Description FAO has identified potato as a crop for ensuring future food security for the global poor,
particularly in the developing countries. Strength of this analysis was demonstrated in
India during 2003 and 2013 in terms of tremendous growth in potato production,
productivity and area. Further, India aims to produce 125 million t potatoes (45.34 million
t during 2013) by the year 2050 for ensuring food security of its natives. However, potato
production in India has been regional in nature and farmers in non-traditional areas wish
to cultivate potatoes for augmenting their farm incomes in order to meet their fast
increasing family expenses. Rajasthan, an arid area dominated state, is not an important
producer of potatoes and whatever production of the crop is harvested in the state
majority of it (nearly 85%) falls in districts adjoining to major potato producing states.
Jodhpur district of the state is not at all known at state level as a potato producing district.
However, International Potato Centre (SWCA), New Delhi has identified some potential
locations where potato cultivation can be successfully introduced. A survey study was
carried out in February 2015 in the selected villages of the state for assessing detailed
socio-economic and agro-climatic feasibility of introducing potato crop in the area for
socio-economic upliftment of the farmers. For this study 110 respondents were
interviewed from four villages out of which two villages were the action villages under
Dryland Systems Consortium Research Program (CRP 1.1).
 
Date 2016-09-20T11:16:04Z
2016-09-20T11:16:04Z
 
Type Report
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/cLH0NIt0
Rajesh K. Rana, Sushma Arya, Suresh Kumar, Roberto Quiroz, Mohinder Kadian, Victor Mares, Cecilia Turin, Kumar Shalander. (31/12/2015). Improving the livelihoods of dryland farmers through the introduction of potato cropping: a proposal based on detailed SWOT analysis.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/4896
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Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-NC-4.0
 
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