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Future Outlook and Options for Target Crops: The Sorghum and Pearl millet Economy of India

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Title Future Outlook and Options for Target Crops: The Sorghum and Pearl millet Economy of India
 
Creator Nagaraj, N
Basavaraj, G
Rao, P P
 
Subject Millets
Sorghum
 
Description More than 60% of the area in India is cultivated in
arid and semi-arid conditions characterized by long
dry seasons, inadequate and unpredictable rainfall and
infertile and fragile soils, which provides around 40% of
the food produced (Gulati and Kelley 2000). Farmers
here are exposed to harsh agro climatic conditions, as
they have to cultivate shallow and poor soils receiving low
and erratic rainfall below 600 mm. Recurrent droughts
coupled with frequent dry spells further exacerbate the
situation. In the last few decades these regions are facing
a shrinking natural resource base and land degradation,
resulting in low productivity in crop and livestock sectors.
This has contributed to increased poverty, malnutrition
and indebtedness of smallholder farm families.
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Date 2012
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
application/pdf
 
Language en
en
 
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Nagaraj, N and Basavaraj, G and Rao, P P (2012) Future Outlook and Options for Target Crops: The Sorghum and Pearl millet Economy of India. Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, Patancheru, Andhra Pradesh, India. (Unpublished)