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Impacts of Improved Sorghum Cultivars in India

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Title Impacts of Improved Sorghum Cultivars in India
 
Creator Deb, U K
Bantilan, M C S
Reddy, B V S
 
Subject Sorghum
 
Description Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) is the third most important cereal crop in India after rice and wheat. During 1995-98, it was grown over 11.2 million hectares with a total production of 9.4 million tons (CMIE 2000). Though the area under sorghum in India has declined over time, production has remained more or less constant due to increase in yield. During 1995-98, Maharashtra ranked first in
terms of area under sorghum and its production (Table 1), followed by Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh...
 
Publisher National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
 
Contributor Joshi, P K
Pal, S
Birthal, P S
Bantilan, C S
 
Date 2005
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4225/1/ImpactsofImprovedSorghum_69-84.pdf
Deb, U K and Bantilan, M C S and Reddy, B V S (2005) Impacts of Improved Sorghum Cultivars in India. In: Impact of Agricultural Research: Post-Green Revolution Evidence from India. National Centre for Agricultural Economics and Policy Research and International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, New Delhi, pp. 69-84.