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Limits Imposed by Management in Rainfed Farming Systems

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Title Limits Imposed by Management in Rainfed Farming Systems
 
Creator Patanothai, A
Ong, C K
 
Subject Agriculture-Farming, Production, Technology, Economics
 
Description WHEN the Asian Productivity Organization (APO)
held a meeting in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in
November 1980 to discuss the production of food
legumes in Asia, it highlighted that over the previous
decade food legume production in the region had
remained constant or declined despite growing
demand (Suzuki and Konno 1982). The symposium
attributed the slow growth in production to slow
expansion in the area planted to food legumes, and
to low yield per unit area. Poor economic returns
and unfavourable government policy towards
legumes relative to other crops like rice and wheat
discouraged ex~ansionin the area cultivated. while
low prod-uctiviiy was blamed on inadequate water
(mostly rainfed crops), marginal land, and low
production inputs, e.g. fertilisers, disease and insect
control. A meeting (organised by ACIAR,
ICRISAT, and IRRI) was then held at ICRISAT
Centre in December 1985 to review the progress on
Asian Regional Research on Grain Legumes
(ARRGL) and to develop plans for future
cooperation. It was revealed that much of the food
legumes are still rainfed and grown on marginal
lands. In India, rainfed agriculture represents 75%
of the arable land or 108 million hectares, and even
if current efforts to bring more area under irrigation
were successful, at least 45% of the arable area will
remain rainfed by the year 2000 (Guatam 1P83). The
situation is more or less the same in most Asian
countries. Clearly, if a significant increase in food
legume production is to be realised, production of
the crops in rainfed farming systems will have to be
improved.
 
Date 1986
 
Type Conference or Workshop Item
PeerReviewed
 
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Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/4406/1/CP_335.pdf
Patanothai, A and Ong, C K (1986) Limits Imposed by Management in Rainfed Farming Systems. In: Food Legume Improvement for Asian Farming Systems.Proceedings of an international workshop, 1-5 September 1986, Khon Kaen, Thailand.