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How Farmers Struggle to Survive in the SAT ?

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Title How Farmers Struggle to Survive in the SAT ?
 
Creator Rao, K P C
Rao, Y M
Chopde, V K
Kumara Charyulu, D
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description The Semi-Arid Tropics (SAT) account for 37% of the
area and 37% of the population of India. They have
a share of 46% of the gross cultivated area of the
country but only 32% of the gross irrigated area. The
mean normal rainfall in these regions is 965 mm as
against the country’s average of 1212 mm. As per the
National Sample Survey for 1999-2000, monthly per
capita expenditure in the Indian SAT is the lowest (Rs
472) and their poverty head count (24.3%) the highest
among the different agroclimatic regions of the country.
Low and variable rainfall, moderate population density,
inadequate irrigation cover and
 
Publisher International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics
 
Date 2006
 
Type Monograph
NonPeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/3347/1/Policybrief10.pdf
Rao, K P C and Rao, Y M and Chopde, V K and Kumara Charyulu, D (2006) How Farmers Struggle to Survive in the SAT ? Documentation. International Crops Research Institute for the Semi Arid Tropics , Patancheru, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh.